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dimethyl anthranilate

fruity ester

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description
musty fruity grape berry citrus mandarin
Odor threshold
20.0 ppb (1 source, non-SIDA)
CAS number
85-91-6
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number
None
GRAS publication
GRAS 1
FEMA primary name
Dimethyl Anthranilate

Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

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.

musty fruity grape berry citrus mandarin shown above FlavorDB 2.0
1
fruity musty sweet neroli powdery phenolic wine Flavordb Odor Column
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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?
air 349 µg/L air 349–349 31 one paper
unstated 20.15 ppb 20–20.3 22 yes
water 349 ppb 349–349 11 one paper

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain dimethyl anthranilate. 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 dimethyl anthranilate in it.

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