A pungent, hot spicy note reminiscent of dried ginger and its characteristic burn. Warm and slightly resinous with a lingering fiery bite, less fresh than gingerols and more concentrated in heat.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1256.
White crystalline powder.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild, warm-herbaceous, sweet odor.
Pungent, spicy-warm taste at concentrations higher than 5 ppm.
Shogaol has little or no application in perfumery, and very little interest to the flavor industry.
Produced by condensation of Vanillin with Acetone, followed by hydrogenation. The resulting ketone (Zingerone) is then condensed with Hexaldehyde under conditions which inactivate the hydroxyl group during the reaction.