decanoic 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: grape, waxy, fruity, sweet, brandy
Odor threshold: 66.72 ppb
CAS number: 110-38-3
Retention index: 1510

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.

Also filed as

decanoic acid, ethyl ester

Same molecule, unified here — previously counted and displayed as separate compounds.

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.

fruity FlavorDB 2.0

sweaty/cheesy FlavorDB 2.0

grape, waxy, fruity, sweet, brandy 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.

Medium	Median	Range	Values	Papers	Papers agree?
air	770 µg/L air	0.1–1.31e+03	8	6	no (4.1 decades)
ethanol solution	1120 ppb	200–1.5e+03	17	17	yes
food matrix	200 ppb	0.02–2.3e+04	68	64	no (2.6 decades)
model wine or beer	200 ppb	200–2e+05	7	7	yes
not applicable	200 ppb	200–200	2	2	yes
unstated	200 ppb	0.4–1.12e+06	136	123	yes
water	122 ppb	0.02–6.3e+03	24	23	no (2.5 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

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

112 cmpds

132 cmpds

210 cmpds

320 cmpds