cis-anethole

herbal terpene Key food odorant

Found in 5 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 description: anise
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 2.0 ppb – 50.0 ppb median 2.7 ppb · 5 published values · see all 5 with sources
CAS number: 104-46-1

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 2086
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: ANETHOLE

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

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

2.0 ppb – 50.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.010 ppb	water (food: grape)	Literature corpus	15740053, 23122094
Flagged: 270× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
2.0 ppb	water (food: apple)	Literature corpus	15740053, 23122094, 23682630 +3
2.7 ppb	water (food: chocolate)	Literature corpus	15740053, 23122094, 23682630 +3
11.8 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	23682630, 34069026, 34409184 +1
50.0 ppb	water (food: litsea pungens fruit)	Literature corpus	15740053, 23122094, 23682630 +3

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-anethole. 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-anethole in it.

21 cmpds

269 cmpds

280 cmpds

305 cmpds