ethyl 2-furoate
caramel oxygenated compoundFound in 9 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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- Formula
- C7H8O3
- Molecular weight
- 140.14 g/mol
- PubChem CID
- 11980 — full record on PubChem
Properties
- Odor description
- burnt
- Odor threshold
- 16000.0 ppb
- Volatility
- high
- CAS number
- 614-99-3
- Retention index
- 1545
FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use
- FEMA number
- 2703
- GRAS publication
- GRAS 3
- FEMA primary name
- METHYL 2-FUROATE
Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.
Where you'd actually smell it
Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (16000.0 ppb). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.
| Food | Concentration (ppb) | OAV | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| wine | 19.0 | 0.00 | — |
Concentrations from PubMed Central Open Access papers (free literature corpus, MIT-style licensed). Copper = OAV ≥ 10 (strongly perceptible). Green = OAV ≥ 1 (perceptible).
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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ethanol solution | 1.475e+04 ppb | 1e+03–1.6e+04 | 3 | 3 | yes |
| food matrix | 1.6e+07 ppb | 1.6e+07–1.6e+07 | 1 | 1 | one paper |
| unstated | 1.6e+04 ppb | 1e+03–1.3e+05 | 6 | 6 | yes |
Found in
Measured impact first, then profile shareEvery ingredient known to contain ethyl 2-furoate. 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 ethyl 2-furoate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.
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