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alpha-terpinolene

herbal terpene

Found in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description
fresh, green, fruity, floral, sweet
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water
200 ppb 1 published value · see all 11 with sources
CAS number
586-62-9
Retention index
1089
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

✓ Exact match
FEMA number
3046
GRAS publication
GRAS 3
FEMA primary name
TERPINOLENE

Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

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
α-terpinolene

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

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

200 ppb

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

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
200 ppb water_odor Leffingwell —

In a food matrix

0.410 ppb – 1086 ppb

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

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
0.080 ppb water (food: fish) Literature corpus 19241555, 39274967, 39481301 +1
Flagged: 313× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
0.410 ppb water (food: tomato) Literature corpus 28050733
0.860 ppb water (food: lemon) Literature corpus 31684768, 34136001, 34824643
0.900 ppb water (food: grape) Literature corpus 41900883
7.0 ppb water (food: tea) Literature corpus 35398897, 36540235
43.0 ppb water (food: rice) Literature corpus 32387946
78.9 ppb water (food: lime) Literature corpus 30972045
547 ppb water (food: rum) Literature corpus 17487612, 27396206
999 ppb water (food: unknown) Literature corpus 18190993, 20548795, 22424088 +70
1086 ppb water (food: bread) Literature corpus 38519512

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 alpha-terpinolene. 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 alpha-terpinolene in it.

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