2-furylmethanol

caramel furan

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold — retronasal / in-mouth: 5000 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
CAS number: 98-00-0

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.

How this molecule is described

Sources disagree about odour more often than they disagree about chemistry. Rather than show one answer, here is every description on file with how many ingredient records carry it.

Also filed as

2-furyl-methanol

Same molecule, unified here — previously counted and displayed as separate compounds.

Published thresholds

1 measured value from the literature. Grouped by what was actually measured — a threshold smelled in clean water, tasted in the mouth, or measured in a real food are three different quantities and are not pooled.

Retronasal / in-mouth

5000 ppb

Tasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
5000 ppb	water_flavor	Leffingwell	—

Only values we can attribute are listed. Where a compendium's licence does not permit public attribution its figures are omitted here, so every number on this page traces to a citable source.

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.

Medium	Median	Range	Values	Papers	Papers agree?
air	1200 µg/L air	12.3–4.5e+06	8	6	no (3.1 decades)
ethanol solution	2000 ppb	0.015–5.47e+04	8	8	no (6.6 decades)
food matrix	2000 ppb	1–5e+06	15	15	no (4.1 decades)
not applicable	1500 ppb	1.5e+03–1.5e+03	1	1	one paper
oil	1.6e+04 ppb	0.0067–3.2e+04	2	2	no (6.7 decades)
unstated	2000 ppb	32–1.5e+04	44	41	yes
water	2000 ppb	0.3–4.5e+03	18	18	no (3.3 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain 2-furylmethanol. 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 2-furylmethanol in it.

344 cmpds

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