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(z)-hex-3-en-1-ol

alcohol

Found in 47 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description
cut grass, foliage, fresh, grass, green, herbal, leafy, oily, vegetable
Odor threshold
831.0 ppb
Retention index
851
Not in FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. Of 3,367 listed flavoring substances, none match this compound name. May still be food-safe under other regulatory routes (FDA 21 CFR 172, EFSA, JECFA) — check femaflavor.org for the authoritative current list.

Thresholds in published tables

Numbers printed in open-access papers, grouped by the medium the table states. Median and full range of the values; “agree” means two or more papers whose middle 80% of values sit within 100×. Not reviewed.

MediumMedianRangeValuesPapersPapers agree?
air 8.45 µg/L air 0.013–200 66 no (3.0 decades)
ethanol solution 1000 ppb 40–1.26e+03 54 yes
food matrix 400 ppb 3.9–1e+04 3433 yes
model wine or beer 400 ppb 400–1e+03 54 yes
not applicable 400 ppb 400–400 11 one paper
unstated 400 ppb 0.2–1.5e+05 6860 no (2.6 decades)
water 13 ppb 0.004–1.9e+03 3833 yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol. Ingredients with a measured concentration come first, ranked by odour activity; the rest follow by how large a share of that ingredient's profile this molecule is. The figure beside each is how many different compounds that ingredient has in total — not the concentration of (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol in it.

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