methyl ester of octanoic acid

fruity ester

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 200.0 ppb

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	218.5 µg/L air	36.7–245	4	3	yes
ethanol solution	200 ppb	200–200	1	1	one paper
food matrix	200 ppb	5–2.01e+03	16	14	no (2.6 decades)
unstated	200 ppb	2–2e+04	37	33	yes
water	200 ppb	13–2e+03	9	9	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain methyl ester of octanoic acid. 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 methyl ester of octanoic acid in it.

dates

fruit

110 cmpds

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