5-heptene

What does 5-heptene smell like?

Sources describe it as butter, burnt, mushroom, rancid, pepper, camphor, citrus.

How this molecule is described

• butter, burnt, mushroom, rancid, pepper, camphor, citrus shown above FlavorDB 2.0
• citrus Flavordb Odor Column
• butter, burnt, mushroom, rancid, pepper Flavordb Odor Column
• camphor Flavordb Odor Column

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 5-heptene?

We list 2 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 5-heptene in it. ✓n = sources that recorded the link.

• veal Meat 407 cmpds
• date Fruit 421 cmpds

How strong is 5-heptene?

In a food matrix: 50.0 ppb, from 1 published value.

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.

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.

Is 5-heptene 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.

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