cubebol
herbal terpenoidFound in 4 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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- Formula
- C15H26O
- Molecular weight
- 222.37 g/mol
- PubChem CID
- 11276107 — full record on PubChem
Properties
- Odor description
- spicy minty
- Odor threshold
-
5.0 ppb
Varies by food: 5 – 5000 ppb across the ingredients we hold it in. The figure shown is the lowest of those, not a measurement for any single food.
- Volatility
- medium
- CAS number
- 23445-02-5
- Retention index
- 1514
FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use
- FEMA number
- 4497
- GRAS publication
- GRAS 24
- FEMA primary name
- Cubebol
Reported use levels (ppm by food category)
Typical vs maximum reported addition levels in finished food. Use as a regulatory ceiling reference — verify against the current GRAS publication for your product category.
| Food category | Typical (ppm) | Maximum (ppm) |
|---|---|---|
| baked goods | 1 | 30 |
| beverages (alcoholic) | 1 | 30 |
| beverages (nonalcoholic) | 1 | 30 |
| breakfast cereal | 1 | 30 |
| chewing gum | 1 | 30 |
| confectionery frostings | 1 | 30 |
| frozen dairy | 1 | 20 |
| granulated sugar | 1 | 20 |
| hard candy | 1 | 20 |
| instant coffee/tea | 1 | 20 |
| jams/jellies | 1 | 10 |
| milk products | 1 | 10 |
| nut products | 1 | 10 |
| soft candy | 1 | 30 |
| sugar substitutes | 1 | 30 |
| sweet sauces | 1 | 30 |
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.
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.
Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.
Where you'd actually smell it
Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (5.0 ppb). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.
| Food | Concentration (ppb) | OAV | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ginger | 0.4 | 0.08 | — |
Concentrations from PubMed Central Open Access papers (free literature corpus, MIT-style licensed). Copper = OAV ≥ 10 (strongly perceptible). Green = OAV ≥ 1 (perceptible).
These OAVs depend on which threshold you divide by. Published values for this molecule span 5–5000 ppb and the column above uses the lowest, which makes every OAV as large as it can be. At the high end each figure would be 1000× smaller, and rows near the line would cross it. Read the colours as “worth a look”, not as a measurement.
Found in
Measured impact first, then profile shareEvery ingredient known to contain cubebol. 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 cubebol in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.
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