furfural alcohol

caramel furan

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold — retronasal / in-mouth: 5000 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
CAS number: 98-00-0

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.

Published thresholds

1 measured value 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.

Retronasal / in-mouth

5000 ppb

Tasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
5000 ppb	water_flavor	Leffingwell	—

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	1200 µg/L air	12.3–4.5e+06	8	6	no (3.1 decades)
ethanol solution	2000 ppb	0.015–5.47e+04	8	8	no (6.6 decades)
food matrix	2000 ppb	1–5e+06	15	15	no (4.1 decades)
not applicable	1500 ppb	1.5e+03–1.5e+03	1	1	one paper
oil	1.6e+04 ppb	0.0067–3.2e+04	2	2	no (6.7 decades)
unstated	2000 ppb	32–1.5e+04	44	41	yes
water	2000 ppb	0.3–4.5e+03	18	18	no (3.3 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain furfural alcohol. 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 furfural alcohol in it.

green tea

beverage caffeinated

564 cmpds

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