α-tocopherol

herbal phenol

Found in 347 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C29H50O2
Molecular weight: 430.7 g/mol
PubChem CID: 14985 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: odorless, faint oily
Volatility: low
CAS number: 59-02-9
Retention index: 3057

Not in FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. Of 3,367 listed flavoring substances, none match this compound name. May still be food-safe under other regulatory routes (FDA 21 CFR 172, EFSA, JECFA) — check femaflavor.org for the authoritative current list.

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.

Also filed as

alpha-tocopherol

Same molecule, unified here — previously counted and displayed as separate compounds.

Descriptions on file

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.

chemical FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree

green FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree

citrus, eucalyptus, fatty, chemical, solvent FlavorDB 2.0

343

almond, apple, butter, fatty FlavorDB 2.0

odorless, faint oily shown above Llm Adjudicated

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fatty, chemical Flavordb Odor Column

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Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain α-tocopherol. 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 α-tocopherol in it.

128 cmpds

176 cmpds

179 cmpds

179 cmpds