p-menthane

woody hydrocarbon

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C10H20
Molecular weight: 140.27 g/mol
PubChem CID: 7459 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: pine
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 6.5 ppb – 13.4 ppb median 10.0 ppb · 2 published values · see all 2 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 99-82-1

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

~ Likely match

FEMA number: 4053
GRAS publication: GRAS 21
FEMA primary name: p-MENTHANE-3,8-DIOL

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

Published thresholds

2 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

6.5 ppb – 13.4 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
6.5 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	39090617
13.4 ppb	water (food: tomato)	Literature corpus	39789073

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.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (9.9545 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 2 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
tomato	42.0	4.22	—

Concentrations from PubMed Central Open Access papers (free literature corpus, MIT-style licensed). Copper = OAV ≥ 10 (strongly perceptible). Green = OAV ≥ 1 (perceptible).

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain p-menthane. 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-menthane in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

48 cmpds

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