hex-2-en-1-ol

floral alcohol

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 100.0 ppb
Retention index: 856

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	537.5 µg/L air	232–630	6	5	yes
food matrix	6500 ppb	100–1.5e+06	10	10	no (2.2 decades)
model wine or beer	1000 ppb	1e+03–1e+03	1	1	one paper
oil	5000 ppb	5e+03–5e+03	1	1	one paper
unstated	231.9 ppb	1–1.5e+04	22	21	no (2.0 decades)
water	100 ppb	0.1–400	19	15	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain hex-2-en-1-ol. 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 hex-2-en-1-ol in it.

sunflower

flower

305 cmpds

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