cineole
herbal terpenoid Key food odorantFound in 7 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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Key food odorant (individualist)
Dunkel et al. 2014Identified 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.
Properties
- Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water
- 12.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 13 with sources
- CAS number
- 470-82-6
- Retention index
- 1031
FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use
- FEMA number
- 2465
- GRAS publication
- GRAS 3
- FEMA primary name
- EUCALYPTOL-1,8-Epoxy-p-menthane; Cineole
Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.
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 ppbThe 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 ppbMeasured 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 ppbTasted 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 ppbMeasured 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 shareEvery ingredient known to contain cineole. 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 cineole in it.
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