damascone
fruity ketone Key food odorantFound in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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Key food odorant (individualist)
Dunkel et al. 2014Identified 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.
Properties
- Odor description
- flowery, fruity
- Odor threshold
- 1.5 ppb
- CAS number
- 23726-91-2
- Retention index
- 1830
FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use
- FEMA number
- 3622
- GRAS publication
- GRAS 12
- FEMA primary name
- DAMASCONE
Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.
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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| food matrix | 0.05 ppb | 0.05–0.05 | 1 | 1 | one paper |
| unstated | 0.0011 ppb | 0.001–0.004 | 4 | 2 | yes |
Found in
Measured impact first, then profile shareEvery ingredient known to contain damascone. 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 damascone in it.
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