4-vinylphenol is a white solid with a special smell, which smells of medicine, meat and mildew. If 4-vinylphenol is diluted, it will produce the aroma of vanilla bean extract, soluble in water, partially soluble in ethanol, and slightly soluble in oil.
4-vinylphenol not only widely exists in strawberries, apples, tomatoes, corn, peanuts, soybeans, black tea, coffee, eggs and fruits, rice, mushrooms and other foods, but also can be metabolized by lactic acid bacteria in wine to p-coumaric acid and ferulic acid.
4-vinylphenol can not only be used as food additive in food and beverage production and processing, but also as pharmaceutical raw material for pharmaceutical field, and play an inhibitory effect on the formation of blood vessels and the growth of invasive breast tumors.
