benzoic acid ethyl ester

fruity ester Key food odorant

Found in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Key food odorant (individualist)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 151 individualist odorants — appears in <5% of foods, carries the diagnostic signature of specific ingredients.

Source: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7124–7143

Properties

Odor description: sweet
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 60.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 2 with sources
CAS number: 93-89-0
Retention index: 591

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.

Published thresholds

2 measured values from the literature. Grouped by what was actually measured — a threshold smelled in clean water, tasted in the mouth, or measured in a real food are three different quantities and are not pooled.

Orthonasal, in clean water

60.0 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
60.0 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

In a food matrix

53.0 ppb

Measured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
53.0 ppb	water (food: pink guava)	Literature corpus	24789719, 26299134, 35011467 +6

Only values we can attribute are listed. Where a compendium's licence does not permit public attribution its figures are omitted here, so every number on this page traces to a citable source.

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	740 µg/L air	740–740	1	1	one paper
ethanol solution	575 ppb	31.4–4.2e+03	9	8	yes
food matrix	56 ppb	0.4–1.43e+06	19	19	yes
oil	0.6 ppb	0.6–0.6	1	1	one paper
unstated	354 ppb	0.62–1.43e+05	54	47	yes
water	53 ppb	0.6–575	10	10	no (2.9 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain benzoic acid ethyl ester. 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 benzoic acid ethyl ester in it.

90 cmpds

104 cmpds

320 cmpds

364 cmpds