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cis-2-hexen-1-ol

green alcohol

Found in 15 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description
green, leafy, fresh, fruity
Odor threshold
359.0 ppb
CAS number
2305-21-7
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.

How this molecule is described

Sources disagree about odour more often than they disagree about chemistry. Rather than show one answer, here is every description on file with how many ingredient records carry it.

Descriptions on file

Ordered by how many independent descriptor streams give each wording, then by how often it appears. The bar is still replication — one source copied onto many ingredients scores high there — so the two can disagree.

repellent to Aedes albopictus at all doses FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree
14
green FlavorDB 2.0
1
green, leafy, fresh, fruity shown above Llm Adjudicated
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Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

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.

MediumMedianRangeValuesPapersPapers agree?
food matrix 400 ppb 359–1e+03 55 yes
unstated 400 ppb 359–1.26e+04 44 yes
water 359 ppb 100–359 33 yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain cis-2-hexen-1-ol. 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 cis-2-hexen-1-ol in it.

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