(-)-carvone
minty terpenoid Key food odorantFound in 4 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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- Formula
- C10H14O
- Molecular weight
- 150.22 g/mol
- PubChem CID
- 439570 — full record on PubChem
Key food odorant (individualist)
Dunkel et al. 2014Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 151 individualist odorants — appears in <5% of foods, carries the diagnostic signature of specific ingredients.
Properties
- Odor description
- mint
- Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water
- 50.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 11 with sources
- Volatility
- medium
- CAS number
- 6485-40-1
How this molecule is described
Sources disagree about odour more often than they disagree about chemistry. Rather than show one answer, here is every description on file with how many ingredient records carry it.
Ordered by how many independent descriptor streams give each wording, then by how often it appears. The bar is still replication — one source copied onto many ingredients scores high there — so the two can disagree.
Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.
Published thresholds
11 measured values from the literature. Grouped by what was actually measured — a threshold smelled in clean water, tasted in the mouth, or measured in a real food are three different quantities and are not pooled.
Orthonasal, in clean water
50.0 ppbThe reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50.0 ppb | water_odor | Leffingwell | — |
In a food matrix
1.1 ppb – 160 ppbMeasured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.100 ppb | water (food: lime) | Literature corpus | — |
| Flagged: 102× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden. | |||
| 1.1 ppb | water (food: chocolate) | Literature corpus | — |
| 3.8 ppb | water (food: lamb) | Literature corpus | — |
| 7.0 ppb | water (food: orange juice (reconstituted from concentrate)) | Literature corpus | — |
| 10.2 ppb | water (food: rum) | Literature corpus | — |
| 12.7 ppb | water (food: tomato) | Literature corpus | — |
| 48.5 ppb | water (food: unknown) | Literature corpus | — |
| 160 ppb | water (food: orange juice (reconstituted from concentrate)) | Literature corpus | — |
| 1243 ppb | water (food: lemon) | Literature corpus | — |
| Flagged: 122× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden. | |||
In air
0.030 ppbAirborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.030 ppb | air (food: dill seed) | Literature corpus | — |
Only values we can attribute are listed. Where a compendium's licence does not permit public attribution its figures are omitted here, so every number on this page traces to a citable source.
Found in
Measured impact first, then profile shareEvery ingredient known to contain (-)-carvone. Ingredients with a measured concentration come first, ranked by odour activity; the rest follow by how large a share of that ingredient's profile this molecule is. The figure beside each is how many different compounds that ingredient has in total — not the concentration of (-)-carvone in it.
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