CLM-GINGER-002 · VERIFIED

Most potent odorants of ginger

Aroma extract dilution analysis of ginger volatile extracts found geranial, eucalyptol, β-linalool and bornyl acetate to be the most potent odorants, all at the highest flavour dilution factor.

SCOPE

Solvent extracts of ginger (Zingiber officinale); the study's static headspace dilution analysis found α-pinene and eucalyptol to be the predominant headspace odorants.

SUPPORT CHECK

The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the abstract fetched from the named service, and an editor read the full abstract against every part of the claim. Abstract from Europe PMC (ebi.ac.uk/europepmc).

LIFECYCLE

active · reviewed 2026-10-02 · corrections 0

CANONICAL PROFILES1

GingerSB-0155↗

MOLECULES THIS CLAIM NAMES4

bornyl acetate · Key odorant · the claim says “the most potent odorants”
1,8-cineole (named eucalyptol in the claim) · Key odorant · the claim says “the most potent odorants”
geranial · Key odorant · the claim says “the most potent odorants”
linalool (named β-linalool in the claim) · Key odorant · the claim says “the most potent odorants”

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SUPPORTING SOURCES1

VERIFIEDPRIMARY

Identification of Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) Volatiles and Localization of Aroma-Active Constituents by GC–Olfactometry

Xueli Pang, Jianmin Cao, Dabin Wang, Jun Qiu & Fanyu Kong

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

2017-05-10DOI 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b00559

Registry record ↗External source ↗

Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:most-potent-odorants-of-ginger · Graph record (JSON)

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-06 · sha256 5c7fe650477f.