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1-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)ethanone

roasted ketone

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description
smoky, acrid, metallic
Odor threshold
890.0 ppb
CAS number
498-02-2
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 780 µg/L air 300–780 42 yes
food matrix 1000 ppb 1e+03–5.02e+04 33 yes
model wine or beer 1.13 ppb 0.34–1e+03 31 one paper
unstated 390.5 ppb 1–780 22 no (2.9 decades)
water 890 ppb 780–1e+03 22 yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain 1-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)ethanone. 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 1-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)ethanone in it.

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