m-cymene

woody terpene_hydrocarbon

Found in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C10H14
Molecular weight: 134.22 g/mol
PubChem CID: 10812 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor threshold: 800.0 ppb
Volatility: high
CAS number: 535-77-3
Retention index: 1023

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.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (800.0 ppb). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
mango	0.1	0.00	—

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	3.51 µg/L air	3.51–3.51	1	1	one paper
food matrix	600 ppb	400–800	2	2	yes
unstated	800 ppb	11.4–800	4	4	yes
water	800 ppb	800–800	5	5	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain m-cymene. 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 m-cymene in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

29 cmpds

65 cmpds

202 cmpds

322 cmpds