methyl propenyl ketone
ketoneFound in 30 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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Properties
- Odor description
- acetone, fishy, fruity, phenolic
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 | 600 µg/L air | 1.5–600 | 4 | 2 | no (2.6 decades) |
| oil | 1200 ppb | 1.2e+03–1.2e+03 | 1 | 1 | one paper |
| unstated | 1.5 ppb | 1.5–1.2e+03 | 7 | 6 | no (2.8 decades) |
| water | 1200 ppb | 1.2e+03–1.2e+03 | 1 | 1 | one paper |
Found in
Measured impact first, then profile shareEvery ingredient known to contain methyl propenyl ketone. 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 propenyl ketone in it.
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