benzyl nitrile

spicy

Found in 4 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: pungent and sulfur-like
Odor threshold: 13.0 ppb
CAS number: 140-29-4
Retention index: 1136

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?
unstated	13.46 ppb	0.724–1e+03	11	7	no (3.0 decades)
water	1000 ppb	1–1.2e+03	5	5	no (3.1 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain benzyl nitrile. 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 benzyl nitrile in it.

202 cmpds

564 cmpds

586 cmpds

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