nonan-1-ol

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: eucalyptus, fatty, menthol, pine
Odor threshold: 45.5 ppb
CAS number: 018829-56-6
Retention index: 1171

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.

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.

Descriptions on file

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.

eucalyptus, fatty, menthol, pine shown above FlavorDB 2.0

eucalyptus Flavordb Odor Column

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fatty Flavordb Odor Column

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menthol, pine Flavordb Odor Column

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Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

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	280 µg/L air	0.9–368	11	9	no (2.6 decades)
ethanol solution	50 ppb	45.5–806	3	3	yes
food matrix	45.5 ppb	0.08–4.55e+04	35	33	no (2.5 decades)
oil	280 ppb	280–280	1	1	one paper
unstated	45.5 ppb	0.0455–2.5e+03	74	68	no (2.6 decades)
water	45.5 ppb	0.0455–5e+04	36	31	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain nonan-1-ol. 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 nonan-1-ol in it.

seaweed

Vegetable

128 cmpds

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