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sabinene

floral terpene Key food odorant

Found in 102 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of sabinene
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C10H16
Molecular weight
136.23 g/mol
PubChem CID
18818 — full record on PubChem

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
woody, terpenic, spicy, citrus, pine
Odor threshold — in a food matrix
0.600 ppb – 517 ppb median 6.0 ppb · 11 published values · see all 12 with sources
Volatility
high
CAS number
3387-41-5
Retention index
973
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

? Partial match
FEMA number
3239
GRAS publication
GRAS 4
FEMA primary name
4-THUJANOL Sabinenehydrate

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

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.

woody, spicy, terpenic Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, Flavordb Odor Column 3 sources agree
—
citrus, pepper, pine, spice, terpene, turpentine, wood, woody FlavorDB 2.0
44
oily, citrus, tropical fruity FlavorDB 2.0
37
flowery, fresh FlavorDB 2.0
1
woody, terpenic, spicy, citrus, pine shown above Llm Adjudicated
—

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

Published thresholds

12 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

0.600 ppb – 517 ppb

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

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
0.600 ppb water (food: milk) Literature corpus 39824497
1.2 ppb water (food: lemon) Literature corpus 20862741, 30009387, 31502246 +3
1.4 ppb water (food: orange) Literature corpus 37515910
4.8 ppb water (food: rice) Literature corpus 24708588
5.8 ppb water (food: beer) Literature corpus 35292687, 38698043
6.0 ppb water (food: tea) Literature corpus 21404434, 36540235, 41549111
8.0 ppb water (food: tomato) Literature corpus 40950592
19.0 ppb SIDA water (food: blueberry) Literature corpus 28490131, 12467918, 12710722 +124
517 ppb water (food: rum) Literature corpus 16753919, 17487612, 35523852 +1
969 ppb SIDA water (food: unknown) Literature corpus 28490131, 12467918, 12710722 +104
Flagged: 160× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
974 ppb SIDA water (food: peach) Literature corpus 28490131, 40782165
Flagged: 161× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.

Other matrix

6300 ppb

Measured in a non-aqueous medium (oil, starch, cellulose).

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
6300 ppb SIDA starch 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.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (6.047499999999999 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 12 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food Concentration (ppb) OAV Source
tea 974.0 161 ⚡ Corpus paper
orange 651.0 108 ⚡ Corpus paper
rum 509.1 84.2 ⚡ Corpus paper
blueberry 30.0 4.96 Corpus paper
peach 17.0 2.81 Corpus paper
rice 14.5 2.40 Corpus paper
beer 4.2 0.70 Corpus paper
milk 3.1 0.51 Corpus paper
tomato 2.0 0.33 Corpus paper
lemon 1.1 0.18 Corpus paper

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 sabinene. 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 sabinene in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

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