alpha-terpinyl acetate

ester

Found in 41 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: bergamot, citrus, herbal, lavender, lime, pine, sweet, wax
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 1265 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
CAS number: 80-26-2
Retention index: 1349

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

~ Likely match

FEMA number: 3047
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: TERPINYL ACETATE-p-Menth-1-en-8-yl acetate

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.

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.

bergamot, citrus, herbal, lavender, lime, pine, sweet, wax shown above FlavorDB 2.0

herbal bergamot lavender lime citrus 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

1 measured value 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.

In a food matrix

1265 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1265 ppb	water (food: unknown)	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 share

Every ingredient known to contain alpha-terpinyl acetate. 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-terpinyl acetate in it.

6 cmpds

8 cmpds

29 cmpds

34 cmpds