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.SRC-MENTHOL-2013 · REVIEW
Menthol: A simple monoterpene with remarkable biological properties
Guy P.P. Kamatou, Ilze Vermaak, Alvaro M. Viljoen & Brian M. Lawrence · Phytochemistry
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