methyl chavicol

spicy phenol Key food odorant

Found in 4 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: 0.572 ppb – 1195 ppb median 13.0 ppb · 8 published values · see all 9 with sources
CAS number: 140-67-0
Retention index: 1195

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

9 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

0.572 ppb – 1195 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.572 ppb	water (food: rum)	Literature corpus	37284321
3.3 ppb	water (food: lamb)	Literature corpus	28344493
6.0 ppb	water (food: reference standard (water))	Literature corpus	12467918, 20858266, 23682630 +18
11.2 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	12467918, 20858266, 23682630 +13
14.7 ppb	water (food: beer)	Literature corpus	35292687
35.0 ppb	water (food: litsea pungens fruit)	Literature corpus	12467918, 20858266, 23682630 +18
39.1 ppb	water (food: apple)	Literature corpus	37021304
1195 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	41549111

Retronasal / in-mouth

7.5 ppb

Tasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
7.5 ppb SIDA	water_retronasal	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 share

Every ingredient known to contain methyl chavicol. 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 methyl chavicol in it.

✓1 14 cmpds

210 cmpds

269 cmpds

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