n-butyl butanoate

fruity ester

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 64.0 ppb
Retention index: 998

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	100 µg/L air	0.028–400	4	4	no (4.2 decades)
ethanol solution	110 ppb	14–110	3	3	yes
food matrix	100 ppb	27.5–1.41e+04	7	7	yes
oil	28 ppb	28–28	1	1	one paper
unstated	105 ppb	2.8–1.41e+04	36	31	yes
water	64 ppb	28–100	2	2	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain n-butyl butanoate. 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 n-butyl butanoate in it.

sake

beverage alcoholic

320 cmpds

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