cis-alpha-terpineol

herbal terpenoid Key food odorant

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Key food odorant (individualist)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified 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.

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

Properties

Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 0.480 ppb – 101 ppb median 3.7 ppb · 5 published values · see all 5 with sources
CAS number: 98-55-5

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

5 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.

In a food matrix

0.480 ppb – 101 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.480 ppb	water (food: lemon)	Literature corpus	—
0.700 ppb	water (food: chocolate)	Literature corpus	—
3.7 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	—
101 ppb	water (food: soy sauce)	Literature corpus	—
1186 ppb	water (food: rum)	Literature corpus	—
Flagged: 320× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.

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 cis-alpha-terpineol. 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 cis-alpha-terpineol in it.

306 cmpds

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