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Lemon thyme

Herbs & floral· herb

What it is

Lemon thyme is Thymus citriodorus, a thyme hybrid used in cooking much like common thyme.

What it tastes like

On the nose: thyme, fruity, piney, citrus. Among its measured molecules: geranyl butyrate, 3-octanol, 3-octanone, thymol, carvacrol.

Every one of its 15 compounds carries a paper the library can cite.

• linaloolaromaalcoholreads as spicy, citrus taste (PubChem)Measured in 91 of 341 ingredients.cite

  3.23% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'β-linalool', RI 1099)
• thymolaromaphenolreads as aromatic (PubChem)Measured in 9 of 341 ingredients.cite

  2.93% of the EO and 2.22% of the hydrosol -- a minor constituent here, in contrast to its dominance (46-68%) in the Thymus vulgaris papers cited by data/curated/thyme.json — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'thymol', RI 1290)
• carvacrolaromaphenolreads as thymol (PubChem)Measured in 9 of 341 ingredients.cite

  3.39% of the EO and 4.39% of the hydrosol -- one of only three compounds this paper detected in both fractions — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'carvacrol', RI 1299)
• 3-octanolaromaalcoholMeasured in 4 of 341 ingredients.cite

  1.06% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row '3-octanol', RI 993)
• borneolaromaterpenoidreads as piney, camphor (PubChem)Measured in 13 of 341 ingredients.cite

  2.44% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'endo-borneol', RI 1158)
• 3-octanonearomaketonereads as fruity (PubChem)Measured in 8 of 341 ingredients.cite

  1.72% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row '3-octanone', RI 985)
• geraniolaromaalcoholreads as sweet rose (PubChem)Measured in 26 of 341 ingredients.cite

  47.08% of the EO and 44.06% of the hydrosol -- by far the largest single component identified — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1 (Chemical composition of essential oil (EO) and hydrosol (H)), row 'geraniol', RI 1255)
• geranialaromaterpenoidreads as lemon (PubChem)Measured in 21 of 341 ingredients.cite

  7.94% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'a-citral' (printed with the Latin 'a' rather than the Greek letter), RI 1270)
• neralaromaterpenoidMeasured in 18 of 341 ingredients.cite

  7.12% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'β-citral', RI 1240)
• nerolaromaalcoholreads as sweet rose (PubChem)Measured in 13 of 341 ingredients.cite

  3.02% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'cis-geraniol', RI 1228 -- a separate row from 'geraniol' (RI 1255) in the same table)
• geranyl acetatearomaterpenoidreads as lavender (PubChem)Measured in 24 of 341 ingredients.cite

  4.05% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'geranyl acetate', RI 1380)
• β-caryophyllene oxidearomaetherMeasured in 19 of 341 ingredients.cite

  1.54% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'caryophyllene oxide', RI 1581)
• caryophyllenearomaterpenoidMeasured in 50 of 341 ingredients.cite

  3.48% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'caryophyllene', RI 1436)
• geranyl butyratearomaesterMeasured in 2 of 341 ingredients.cite

  1.06% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'geraniol butyrate', RI 1564)
• β-bisabolenearomaterpenoidMeasured in 10 of 341 ingredients.cite

  3.41% of the EO; not detected in the hydrosol — Ntalli et al. 2020, Plants (Table 1, row 'β-bisabolene', RI 1508)