acetol

fruity ketone

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: malty and sweet notes
Odor threshold: 0.64 ppb
CAS number: 116-09-6
Retention index: 690

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	2.95e+04 µg/L air	0.0189–1.8e+06	4	4	no (8.0 decades)
food matrix	500 ppb	0.08–1e+04	8	7	no (5.1 decades)
unstated	1e+04 ppb	10–1e+05	11	10	no (3.8 decades)
water	1e+04 ppb	10–1e+05	11	10	no (2.6 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain acetol. 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 acetol in it.

28 cmpds

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