beta-cadinene

herbal terpenoid

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: green woody
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 16.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
CAS number: 523-47-7

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

~ Likely match

FEMA number: 4967
GRAS publication: GRAS 30
CAS number: 483-76-1
FEMA primary name: delta-Cadinene δ-Cadinene

Reported use levels (ppm by food category)

Typical vs maximum reported addition levels in finished food. Use as a regulatory ceiling reference — verify against the current GRAS publication for your product category.

Food category	Typical (ppm)	Maximum (ppm)
baked goods	0.9	0.9
condiments and relishes	0.3	0.3
hard candy	0.9	0.9

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

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

16.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
16.0 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 beta-cadinene. 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 beta-cadinene in it.

48 cmpds

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