2-methylbutan-1-ol

floral alcohol

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 1200.0 ppb
Retention index: 981

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.

Medium	Median	Range	Values	Papers	Papers agree?
air	170 µg/L air	30–310	2	2	yes
food matrix	247.9 ppb	15.9–480	2	2	yes
oil	480 ppb	480–480	1	1	one paper
unstated	300 ppb	15.9–6.5e+04	11	8	yes
water	1200 ppb	1.2e+03–1.2e+03	3	2	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain 2-methylbutan-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 2-methylbutan-1-ol in it.

101 cmpds

344 cmpds

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