e,e-farnesol

herbal terpenoid

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 510.0 ppb

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?
air	65 µg/L air	20–110	2	2	yes
ethanol solution	3000 ppb	1e+03–5e+03	2	2	yes
food matrix	20 ppb	20–1e+03	7	6	yes
unstated	20 ppb	0.02–1.6e+03	11	11	no (3.0 decades)
water	510 ppb	20–1e+03	2	2	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain e,e-farnesol. 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 e,e-farnesol in it.

sake

beverage alcoholic

320 cmpds

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