palmitic acid ethyl ester

fruity ester

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 1987.0 ppb
Retention index: 1987

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	1500 µg/L air	2–2e+03	4	4	no (3.0 decades)
ethanol solution	1.27e+04 ppb	0.014–5.84e+04	9	9	no (6.4 decades)
food matrix	1500 ppb	150–2e+03	24	22	yes
not applicable	1000 ppb	1e+03–1e+03	1	1	one paper
unstated	1500 ppb	1–2e+07	71	65	no (2.5 decades)
water	2000 ppb	2e+03–2e+04	15	15	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain palmitic acid ethyl ester. 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 palmitic acid ethyl ester in it.

lotus

essential oil

288 cmpds

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