n-octanol

floral alcohol

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 1075.0 ppb
Retention index: 1063

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	110 µg/L air	0.01–5e+03	17	15	no (3.9 decades)
ethanol solution	1100 ppb	0.7–1.1e+03	8	8	no (3.2 decades)
food matrix	110 ppb	0.027–8e+04	57	55	no (2.7 decades)
oil	463.5 ppb	27–900	2	2	yes
unstated	120 ppb	0.001–1.9e+06	135	127	no (2.6 decades)
water	110 ppb	0.022–1.3e+03	49	47	no (3.8 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

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

214 cmpds

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