ethyl linoleate

Properties

Odor description

fatty, oily, waxy

Odor threshold

20.59 ppb

Varies by food: 20.59 – 3.4e+06 ppb across the ingredients we hold it in. The figure shown is the lowest of those, not a measurement for any single food.

Volatility

low

Retention index

2358

FEMA number

3411

GRAS publication

GRAS 7

FEMA primary name

METHYL LINOLEATE (48%)/METHYL LINOLENATE (52%) MIXTURE

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

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.

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.

Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Concentrations from PubMed Central Open Access papers (free literature corpus, MIT-style licensed). Copper = OAV ≥ 10 (strongly perceptible). Green = OAV ≥ 1 (perceptible).

These OAVs depend on which threshold you divide by. Published values for this molecule span 20.59–3.4e+06 ppb and the column above uses the lowest, which makes every OAV as large as it can be. At the high end each figure would be 165129× smaller, and rows near the line would cross it. Read the colours as “worth a look”, not as a measurement.

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.