hexyl acetate a

ester

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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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	12 µg/L air	0.86–900	9	6	no (2.9 decades)
ethanol solution	1500 ppb	670–5.56e+03	9	9	yes
food matrix	670 ppb	1.8–1e+04	48	47	no (2.9 decades)
model wine or beer	670 ppb	26–700	4	4	yes
oil	700 ppb	700–700	1	1	one paper
unstated	670 ppb	0.115–6.7e+04	97	84	no (2.9 decades)
water	2 ppb	0.115–1.5e+03	23	20	no (2.1 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain hexyl acetate a. 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 hexyl acetate a in it.

tea

plant

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