e-citral

citrus terpenoid

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: lemongrass-like
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 32.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 6 with sources
CAS number: 141-27-5

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

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.

Orthonasal, in clean water

32.0 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
32.0 ppb SIDA	water	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

In a food matrix

2.1 ppb – 1273 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
2.1 ppb	water (food: lemon)	Literature corpus	—
8.6 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	—
80.3 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	—
1244 ppb	water (food: tomato)	Literature corpus	—
1273 ppb	water (food: rice)	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 e-citral. 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 e-citral in it.

chicken

meat

443 cmpds

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