cis-geraniol

floral alcohol Key food odorant

Found in 1 ingredient 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: sweet
Odor threshold: 20.0 ppb

Not in FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. Of 3,367 listed flavoring substances, none match this compound name. May still be food-safe under other regulatory routes (FDA 21 CFR 172, EFSA, JECFA) — check femaflavor.org for the authoritative current list.

Thresholds in published tables

Numbers printed in open-access papers, grouped by the medium the table states. Median and full range of the values; “agree” means two or more papers whose middle 80% of values sit within 100×. Not reviewed.

Medium	Median	Range	Values	Papers	Papers agree?
air	345 µg/L air	290–680	6	6	yes
ethanol solution	500 ppb	300–500	3	3	yes
food matrix	290 ppb	10–700	21	19	yes
model wine or beer	400 ppb	300–400	3	3	yes
unstated	300 ppb	0.3–3.01e+03	56	50	no (2.5 decades)
water	49 ppb	0.3–3e+03	29	26	no (2.8 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain cis-geraniol. 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 cis-geraniol in it.

mandarin orange

fruit citrus

372 cmpds

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