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Compound sheet

Aroma molecule · ester

3-hexen-1-ol acetate

Smells ofgreen, fruity, banana, grassy

Found in 3 ingredients. 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
142.2 g/mol
CAS
1708-82-3
PubChem
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Threshold · water
8.0 ppb
Class
ester
Status
Aroma-active

01How little it takes

  • in water 8
  • in a food 31
  • retronasal / in-mouth 381
  • other matrix 200

ppb, log scale · tick = median of published values, bar = full range

02Where it turns up

  • Drinks2
  • Fruit1

of the 3 ingredients that contain it, by food group

03What it travels with

Too few ingredients to say what it travels with.

What does 3-hexen-1-ol acetate smell like?

Sources describe it as green, fruity, banana, grassy.

How this molecule is described

  • grassy-scented FlavorDB 2.0
  • fruity FlavorDB 2.0
  • green, fruity, banana, grassy shown above Llm Adjudicated

Ordered by how many independent descriptor streams give each wording, then by how often it appears. The bar is replication (one source copied onto many ingredients scores high), not corroboration.

Which foods contain 3-hexen-1-ol acetate?

We list 3 ingredients 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 3-hexen-1-ol acetate in it. ✓n = sources that recorded the link.

How strong is 3-hexen-1-ol acetate?

Orthonasal, in clean water: 8.0 ppb, from 1 published value.

Published thresholds

5 measured values 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.

Orthonasal, in clean water · 8.0 ppb ppbThe reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.
ThresholdMatrixSourcePaper
8.0 ppb SIDA water Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies —
In a food matrix · 31.0 ppb ppbMeasured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.
ThresholdMatrixSourcePaper
31.0 ppb water (food: reference standard (water)) Literature corpus 21750948, 27664650, 34196858
Retronasal / in-mouth · 12.1 ppb–750 ppb ppbTasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.
ThresholdMatrixSourcePaper
12.1 ppb SIDA water_retronasal Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies —
750 ppb SIDA oil_retronasal Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies —
Other matrix · 200 ppb ppbMeasured in a non-aqueous medium (oil, starch, cellulose).
ThresholdMatrixSourcePaper
200 ppb SIDA oil_orthonasal Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies —

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 31 µg/L air 31–31 11 one paper
unstated 11 ppb 7.8–31 44 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
1004

Is 3-hexen-1-ol acetate 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.

3-hexen-1-ol acetate questions

What does 3-hexen-1-ol acetate smell like?

Sources describe 3-hexen-1-ol acetate as green, fruity, banana and grassy.

Which foods contain 3-hexen-1-ol acetate?

We list 3 ingredients that contain 3-hexen-1-ol acetate.

How strong is 3-hexen-1-ol acetate?

The median of 1 published odour thresholds in water is 8.0 ppb.

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Cite this analysis
Plain text
Compound Kitchen (2026). 3-hexen-1-ol acetate compound data sheet. https://compkitchen.com/compound/3-hexen-1-ol%20acetate. Accessed 2026-11-03.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compound_3_hexen_1_ol_acetate_compound_data_sheet_2026,
  title  = {3-hexen-1-ol acetate compound data sheet},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compound/3-hexen-1-ol%20acetate},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-03}
}

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