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p-menth-1-en-9-ol

terpenoid

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description
fruit, herb
CAS number
18479-68-0
Retention index
1937
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

✓ Exact match
FEMA number
4508
GRAS publication
GRAS 24
FEMA primary name
p-Menth-1-en-9-ol

Reported use levels (ppm by food category)

Typical vs maximum reported addition levels in finished food. Use as a regulatory ceiling reference — verify against the current GRAS publication for your product category.

Food category Typical (ppm) Maximum (ppm)
beverages (alcoholic) 0.2 1
beverages (nonalcoholic) 0.1 0.5
chewing gum 1 5
gelatins/ puddings 0.2 1
hard candy 0.5 2.5
Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

How this molecule is described

Sources disagree about odour more often than they disagree about chemistry. Rather than show one answer, here is every description on file with how many ingredient records carry it.

Descriptions on file

Ordered by how many independent descriptor streams give each wording, then by how often it appears. The bar is still replication — one source copied onto many ingredients scores high there — so the two can disagree.

fruit, herb shown above Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, Flavordb Odor Column 3 sources agree
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fruit, fruity, herb, herbal FlavorDB 2.0
2

Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain p-menth-1-en-9-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 p-menth-1-en-9-ol in it.

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