7-methyl-3-methylideneocta-1,6-diene

herbal terpenoid Key food odorant

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Key food odorant (intermediary)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 57 intermediary odorants — appears in 5–25% of foods. Characteristic odor: balsamic, peppery.

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

Properties

Odor description: nutty, herbal, green
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 14.0 ppb 2 published values · see all 17 with sources
CAS number: 123-35-3

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.

Published thresholds

17 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

14.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
14.0 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—
14.0 ppb SIDA	water	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

In a food matrix

0.249 ppb – 981 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.249 ppb SIDA	water (food: coffee)	Literature corpus	28490131, 12710722, 17487612 +105
0.390 ppb	water (food: grape)	Literature corpus	33232384
1.2 ppb SIDA	water (food: reference standard (water))	Literature corpus	28490131, 12710722, 17487612 +105
1.3 ppb	water (food: lemon)	Literature corpus	20862741, 30009387, 31502246 +3
6.3 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	21404434, 28480362, 39996838
7.2 ppb	water (food: tomato)	Literature corpus	39789073
14.0 ppb SIDA	water (food: orange juice (reconstituted from concentrate))	Literature corpus	28490131, 12710722, 17487612 +105
14.0 ppb SIDA	water (food: hand-squeezed grapefruit juice)	Literature corpus	28490131, 12710722, 17487612 +105
43.0 ppb	water (food: fish)	Literature corpus	24594176, 36144849, 37003052
94.0 ppb	water (food: chocolate)	Literature corpus	17898464
100 ppb SIDA	water (food: litsea pungens fruit)	Literature corpus	28490131, 12710722, 17487612 +105
499 ppb	water (food: rum)	Literature corpus	17487612, 41813766
981 ppb SIDA	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	28490131, 12710722, 17687727 +88

Retronasal / in-mouth

16.6 ppb

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

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

In air

13.0 ppb

Airborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
13.0 ppb SIDA	air (food: reference standard (air))	Literature corpus	28490131, 12710722, 17487612 +105

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 7-methyl-3-methylideneocta-1,6-diene. 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 7-methyl-3-methylideneocta-1,6-diene in it.

apricot

fruit

385 cmpds

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