5-pentyldihydro-2(3h)-furanone

dairy lactone

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 10.850000000000001 ppb

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	58 µg/L air	25–91	2	2	yes
ethanol solution	32.05 ppb	9.7–90.7	8	6	yes
food matrix	25 ppb	2.5–2e+04	19	16	yes
model wine or beer	30 ppb	30–30	1	1	one paper
not applicable	9.7 ppb	9.7–9.7	1	1	one paper
oil	2400 ppb	2.4e+03–2.4e+03	1	1	one paper
unstated	25 ppb	0.0079–90.7	40	33	yes
water	10.85 ppb	0.28–790	22	22	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

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

sake

beverage alcoholic

320 cmpds

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