5-butyldihydro-2(3h)-furanone

dairy lactone

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: sweet
Retention index: 1582

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	4.3 µg/L air	4.3–4.3	3	1	one paper
food matrix	17.73 ppb	7–120	8	8	yes
model wine or beer	400 ppb	400–400	1	1	one paper
oil	3500 ppb	280–4e+05	3	3	no (3.2 decades)
unstated	17.9 ppb	6.5–2.82e+03	17	13	no (2.6 decades)
water	9.5 ppb	0.024–22.2	14	12	no (2.2 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain 5-butyldihydro-2(3h)-furanone. 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 5-butyldihydro-2(3h)-furanone in it.

ham

meat

106 cmpds

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