mushroom alcohol

floral alcohol Key food odorant

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

Look up another compound — search by name, CAS number, PubChem CID, or FEMA #.

Key food odorant (individualist)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 151 individualist odorants — appears in <5% of foods, carries the diagnostic signature of specific ingredients.

Source: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7124–7143

Properties

Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 1.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
CAS number: 3391-86-4

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.

Orthonasal, in clean water

1.0 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1.0 ppb	water_odor	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	1.5 µg/L air	0.001–164	34	24	no (3.9 decades)
ethanol solution	20 ppb	0.02–59.5	7	6	no (3.4 decades)
food matrix	1.5 ppb	0.0015–4e+04	104	96	yes
model wine or beer	20 ppb	20–20	1	1	one paper
not applicable	1.5 ppb	1.5–1.5	1	1	one paper
oil	1 ppb	0.153–38	7	7	no (2.4 decades)
unstated	1.5 ppb	0.0027–1.59e+04	183	156	yes
water	1.5 ppb	0.001–1e+03	121	112	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain mushroom 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 mushroom alcohol in it.

chicken

meat

443 cmpds

Into the chemistry?

Get a molecule-level pairing breakdown each week — which ingredients share a compound, and why it matters at the table. Free, no spam.

Prefer an account? Create a free account to save pairings and unlock the full chemistry.

Try the pairing tools to see which ingredient combinations rely on mushroom alcohol, or compare two ingredients side-by-side.