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Compound sheet

Molecule · ketone

2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one

Found in 1 ingredient. We hold no measured concentration for it in any of them yet, so we cannot say where it is strong enough to smell.

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Formula
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Mass
126.2 g/mol
CAS
110-93-0
PubChem
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Threshold · a food
50.0 ppb
Class
ketone
Status
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01How little it takes

  • in water 68
  • in a foodpapers disagree 50
  • in alcoholpapers disagree 1,008
  • in oilpapers disagree 1,000

ppb, log scale · tick = median of published values, bar = full range, from open-access paper tables (not reviewed)

02Where it turns up

  • Other1

of the 1 ingredient that contain it, by food group

03What it travels with

Too few ingredients to say what it travels with.

What does 2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one smell like?

We hold no odour description for 2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one.

Which foods contain 2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one?

We list 1 ingredient that contain it, but presence is not the same as smell. What matters is how much is there compared with how little it takes to notice it. That ratio is the odour activity value (OAV): above 1, you can smell it.

Found in

Measured foods first, then real food profiles, then thin or composite records (marked). The figure beside each is how many compounds that ingredient has in total, not the amount of 2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one in it. ✓n = sources that recorded the link.

How strong is 2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one?

In a food matrix: 50.0 ppb, from 1 published value. Thresholds printed in paper tables for oil are about 15× the ones for water.

Published thresholds

1 measured value from the literature, grouped by what was measured: a threshold smelled in clean water, tasted, or measured in a real food are different quantities and are not pooled.

In a food matrix · 50.0 ppb ppbMeasured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.
ThresholdMatrixSourcePaper
50.0 ppb water (food: litsea pungens fruit) Literature corpus 25372706, 41183907

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

Thresholds in published tables

MediumMedianRangeValuesPapersPapers agree?
air 68 µg/L air 0.0189–2.6e+05 98 no (5.5 decades)
ethanol solution 1008 ppb 1.01e+03–1.01e+03 11 one paper
food matrix 50 ppb 0.0189–2e+03 3434 no (3.0 decades)
oil 1000 ppb 1e+03–1e+03 11 one paper
unstated 50 ppb 0.0063–5e+04 7568 no (2.8 decades)
water 68 ppb 0.05–1.6e+03 6157 yes

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

Retention index
1349

Is 2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one safe to eat?

Not in FEMA GRAS publications 1–33. Of 3,367 listed flavoring substances, none match this compound or its other names. It may still be food-safe under other regulatory routes (FDA 21 CFR 172, EFSA, JECFA); check femaflavor.org for the authoritative current list.

2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one questions

Which foods contain 2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one?

We list 1 ingredient that contain 2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one.

How strong is 2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one?

The median of 1 published odour thresholds in a food is 50.0 ppb. Published values in oil are about 15 times higher than in water.

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Cite this analysis
Plain text
Compound Kitchen (2026). 2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one compound data sheet. https://compkitchen.com/compound/2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one. Accessed 2026-11-03.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compound_2_methyl_2_hepten_6_one_compound_data_sheet_2026,
  title  = {2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one compound data sheet},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compound/2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-03}
}

Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.