ethyl acetate (ethyl ethanoate)

fruity ester Key food odorant

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Key food odorant (individualist)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 151 individualist odorants — appears in <5% of foods, carries the diagnostic signature of specific ingredients.

Source: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7124–7143

Properties

Odor description: fruity aroma, solvent-like odour at higher concentrations

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	420 µg/L air	0.01–1.9e+05	18	14	no (3.9 decades)
ethanol solution	3.255e+04 ppb	7.5e+03–1.94e+05	20	19	yes
food matrix	7500 ppb	0.05–7.5e+06	97	86	no (4.2 decades)
model wine or beer	1.215e+04 ppb	7.5e+03–2.5e+04	4	4	yes
not applicable	7500 ppb	7.5e+03–7.5e+03	1	1	one paper
oil	940 ppb	940–940	1	1	one paper
unstated	7500 ppb	0.0015–7.5e+07	194	163	no (3.8 decades)
water	5 ppb	3.3–5e+04	38	36	no (3.0 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain ethyl acetate (ethyl ethanoate). 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 acetate (ethyl ethanoate) in it.

rye

cereal

267 cmpds

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