benzoic aldehyde

green aldehyde

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 1925 ppb 1 published value · see all 2 with sources
CAS number: 100-52-7

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

1925 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1925 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

Retronasal / in-mouth

1500 ppb

Tasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1500 ppb SIDA	water_flavor	Leffingwell	30779560

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	350 µg/L air	0.06–7.51e+05	37	31	no (4.5 decades)
ethanol solution	3100 ppb	515–5e+03	12	12	yes
food matrix	350 ppb	0.085–1.6e+05	107	101	no (2.8 decades)
model wine or beer	2000 ppb	2e+03–2e+03	2	2	yes
not applicable	350 ppb	350–350	1	1	one paper
oil	60 ppb	60–690	7	7	yes
starch or other	350 ppb	350–350	1	1	one paper
unstated	350 ppb	0.024–5e+04	225	205	no (2.6 decades)
water	350 ppb	0.05–3.5e+04	105	99	no (2.1 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain benzoic aldehyde. 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 aldehyde in it.

wine

beverage alcoholic

565 cmpds

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