trans-caryophyllene
woody sesquiterpeneFound in 8 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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Properties
- Odor threshold — in a food matrix
- 0.340 ppb – 1418 ppb median 15.7 ppb · 6 published values · see all 6 with sources
- CAS number
- 87-44-5
FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use
- FEMA number
- 2252
- GRAS publication
- GRAS 3
- FEMA primary name
- B-CARYOPHYLLENE
Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.
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.
Same molecule, unified here — previously counted and displayed as separate compounds.
Published thresholds
6 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
0.340 ppb – 1418 ppbMeasured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.340 ppb | water (food: tomato) | Literature corpus | 38831283 |
| 0.480 ppb | water (food: lemon) | Literature corpus | 38831283 |
| 0.490 ppb | water (food: grape) | Literature corpus | 38831283 |
| 31.0 ppb | water (food: chocolate) | Literature corpus | 38831283 |
| 64.0 ppb | water (food: litsea pungens fruit) | Literature corpus | 38831283 |
| 1418 ppb | water (food: unknown) | Literature corpus | 38831283 |
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 shareEvery ingredient known to contain trans-caryophyllene. 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 trans-caryophyllene in it.
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