Thermal decomposition was studied by DTA/SDTG to indicate the thermal degradation mechanism of a natural identifical flavor precursor of nerol-β-D-glucopyranoside. The heating rate was adapted of 5, 10, and 15 ℃/min in the temperature range from 30 to 500 ℃. The parameters were obtained by Friedman method and Ozawa-Flynn-Wall method. The TG-DTG curves showed that with the increase of heating rate, the thermal degradation temperature was mainly determined by the heating rate B. Initial temperature of mass reduction was T₀=1.102 3B+199.4, and that at the maximum rate was T_p=2.102 3B+251.9. However, the final temperature of mass reduction was T_f= 2.602 3B+315.23. The DSC curve showed that the process of melting and decomposition proceeded at the same time. The activation energies Ea of thermal degradation process obtained by Friedman method and Ozawa-Flynn-Wall method were 180.90 kJ/mol and 168.76 kJ/mol respectively. This study aimed to provide more important basic theory data on the mechanism of thermal degradation and offer suggestions for future works.