para-cymene
herbal terpeneFound in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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Properties
- Odor description
- at 1.00 - 10.00 ppm.
- Odor threshold — in a food matrix
- 0.100 ppb – 536 ppb median 8.4 ppb · 16 published values · see all 16 with sources
- CAS number
- 99-87-6
- Retention index
- 1024
Published thresholds
16 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
0.100 ppb – 536 ppbMeasured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.020 ppb | water (food: lime) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| Flagged: 422× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden. | |||
| 0.100 ppb | water (food: chocolate) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 0.800 ppb | water (food: rice) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 1.2 ppb | water (food: lemon) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 1.4 ppb | water (food: orange) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 1.9 ppb | water (food: grape) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 2.9 ppb | water (food: lamb) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 8.4 ppb | water (food: tomato) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 8.5 ppb | water (food: fish) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 12.1 ppb | water (food: rum) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 24.0 ppb | water (food: unknown) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 282 ppb | water (food: wine) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 536 ppb | water (food: tea) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| 1024 ppb | water (food: bread) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| Flagged: 121× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden. | |||
| 1027 ppb | water (food: ginger) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| Flagged: 122× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden. | |||
| 230120 ppb | water (food: pepper) | Literature corpus | 24339945, 34641307, 40003692 +1 |
| Flagged: 27238× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden. | |||
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 (8.4485 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 16 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.
| Food | Concentration (ppb) | OAV | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tea | 1025.5 | 121 ⚡ | — |
| orange | 1025.0 | 121 ⚡ | — |
| bread | 1020.0 | 121 ⚡ | — |
| grape | 532.3 | 63.0 ⚡ | — |
| lime | 300.0 | 35.5 ⚡ | — |
| rum | 119.2 | 14.1 ⚡ | — |
| tomato | 18.5 | 2.19 | — |
| ginger | 16.3 | 1.93 | — |
| pepper | 7.8 | 0.92 | — |
| lamb | 3.7 | 0.44 | — |
| chocolate | 2.9 | 0.34 | — |
| fish | 2.4 | 0.29 | — |
| lemon | 1.0 | 0.12 | — |
| wine | 1.0 | 0.12 | — |
| rice | 0.6 | 0.07 | — |
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 shareEvery ingredient known to contain para-cymene. 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 para-cymene in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.
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