n-heptadecane

floral alkane

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: roasted sunflower seeds
Odor threshold: 871.04 ppb
Retention index: 1700

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?
unstated	1.1e+04 ppb	1e+04–1e+07	4	4	no (3.0 decades)
water	1e+07 ppb	1e+07–1e+07	3	3	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain n-heptadecane. 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-heptadecane in it.

106 cmpds

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