1,8-cineol

herbal terpenoid Key food odorant

Found in 7 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Key food odorant (individualist)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified 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.

Source: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7124–7143

Properties

Odor description: eucalyptus, camphor, minty, fresh
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 12.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 13 with sources
CAS number: 470-82-6
Retention index: 1035

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.

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.

camphor, pine, sweet FlavorDB 2.0

camphor, chemical, pine FlavorDB 2.0

eucalyptus, camphor, minty, fresh shown above Llm Adjudicated

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camphor, chemical Flavordb Odor Column

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sweet, camphor, pine Flavordb Odor Column

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camphor, pine 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.

Published thresholds

13 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

12.0 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
12.0 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

In a food matrix

10.7 ppb – 2646 ppb

Measured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.050 ppb	water (food: fish)	Literature corpus	—
Flagged: 3110× 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: reference standard (water))	Literature corpus	—
Flagged: 141× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
10.7 ppb	water (food: rum)	Literature corpus	—
23.6 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	—
81.0 ppb	water (food: milk)	Literature corpus	—
230 ppb	water (food: litsea pungens fruit)	Literature corpus	—
517 ppb	water (food: peach)	Literature corpus	—
519 ppb	water (food: ginger)	Literature corpus	—
520 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	—
2646 ppb	water (food: blueberry)	Literature corpus	—

Retronasal / in-mouth

0.260 ppb

Tasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.260 ppb SIDA	water_retronasal	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

Other matrix

84.0 ppb

Measured in a non-aqueous medium (oil, starch, cellulose).

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
84.0 ppb SIDA	starch	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

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 share

Every ingredient known to contain 1,8-cineol. 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 1,8-cineol in it.

60 cmpds

65 cmpds

212 cmpds

268 cmpds