VERIFIEDREVIEW
Menthol: A simple monoterpene with remarkable biological properties
Guy P.P. Kamatou, Ilze Vermaak, Alvaro M. Viljoen & Brian M. Lawrence
DOI 10.1016/j.phytochem.2013.08.005CLM-MENTHOL-001 · VERIFIED
Menthol in toothpaste
Used in products ranging from confectionery to oral-care products such as toothpaste, menthol is one of the most important flavouring additives; it is a cyclic monoterpene alcohol with well-known cooling characteristics and a residual minty smell from remnants of the oil from which it was obtained.
A review of menthol; it does not analyse particular toothpastes, whose flavours vary.
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).
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Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:menthol-in-toothpaste · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-05 · sha256 d10c2deef978.