phellandrene

herbal terpene Key food odorant

Found in 5 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 description: minty
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 0.465 ppb – 6.6 ppb median 3.6 ppb · 4 published values · see all 5 with sources
CAS number: 99-83-2
Retention index: 1007

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 2856
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: a-PHELLANDRENE

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

Published thresholds

5 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

0.465 ppb – 6.6 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.465 ppb	water (food: lemon)	Literature corpus	40673157
0.520 ppb	water (food: grape)	Literature corpus	40673157
6.6 ppb	water (food: lamb)	Literature corpus	40673157
1000 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	40673157
Flagged: 281× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.

In air

0.700 ppb

Airborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.700 ppb	air (food: dill herb)	Literature corpus	40673157

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 phellandrene. 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 phellandrene in it.

167 cmpds

232 cmpds

318 cmpds

363 cmpds