cymen-7-ol

Key food odorant

Found in 1 ingredient 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: pine
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 0.500 ppb – 1212 ppb median 38.5 ppb · 6 published values · see all 6 with sources
CAS number: 122-03-2

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

? Partial match

FEMA number: 2933
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: p-iso-PROPYLBENZYL ALCOHOL-p-Cymen-7-ol

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

Published thresholds

6 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

0.500 ppb – 1212 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.500 ppb	water (food: chocolate)	Literature corpus	17482441, 27941612, 33987543 +11
12.0 ppb	water (food: lemon)	Literature corpus	34853254
33.9 ppb	water (food: grape)	Literature corpus	17482441, 27941612, 33987543 +11
43.1 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	17482441, 27941612, 33987543 +10
177 ppb	water (food: litsea pungens fruit)	Literature corpus	17482441, 27941612, 33987543 +11
1212 ppb	water (food: tomato)	Literature corpus	17482441, 27941612, 33987543 +11

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 cymen-7-ol. 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 cymen-7-ol in it.

veal

Meat

407 cmpds

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