linalol

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: pine
Odor threshold: 1.04 ppb
CAS number: 2385-77-5
Retention index: 1558

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 2635
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: LINALOOL-3,7-Dimethyl-1,6-octadien-3-01; Linalol

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (1.04 ppb). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
apple	11300.0	10865 ⚡	DOI

Concentrations from PubMed Central Open Access papers (free literature corpus, MIT-style licensed). Copper = OAV ≥ 10 (strongly perceptible). Green = OAV ≥ 1 (perceptible).

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	0.22 µg/L air	0.22–0.22	1	1	one paper
food matrix	10.5 ppb	6–15	2	2	yes
unstated	3.11 ppb	0.22–25	4	4	no (2.1 decades)
water	1.04 ppb	0.58–1.5	2	2	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain linalol. 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 linalol in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

veal

Meat

407 cmpds

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