ethyl acrylate

oxygenated compound

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C5H8O2
Molecular weight: 100.12 g/mol
PubChem CID: 8821 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: acrylate, fruity, harsh, plastic
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 67.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 2 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 140-88-5
Retention index: 1021

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 2418
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: ETHYL ACRYLATE

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

Published thresholds

2 measured values from the literature. Grouped by what was actually measured — a threshold smelled in clean water, tasted in the mouth, or measured in a real food are three different quantities and are not pooled.

Orthonasal, in clean water

67.0 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
67.0 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

In air

0.260 ppb

Airborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.260 ppb	air	Nagata 2003	—

Only values we can attribute are listed. Where a compendium's licence does not permit public attribution its figures are omitted here, so every number on this page traces to a citable source.

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	1.603 µg/L air	0.0066–3.2	2	1	one paper
ethanol solution	0.2 ppb	0.2–0.2	1	1	one paper
unstated	12.35 ppb	0.1–18	4	4	no (2.3 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain ethyl acrylate. 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 acrylate in it.

33 cmpds

260 cmpds

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