pentan-1-ol m

floral alcohol

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 150.2 ppb

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	135.1 µg/L air	0.1–3.05e+05	20	13	no (5.3 decades)
ethanol solution	3.74e+04 ppb	4e+03–8e+04	5	5	yes
food matrix	470 ppb	0.15–1.62e+07	56	52	no (4.3 decades)
oil	470 ppb	0.01–470	3	3	no (4.7 decades)
unstated	485 ppb	0.15–6.43e+05	116	100	no (4.1 decades)
water	150.2 ppb	0.15–4e+06	36	35	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain pentan-1-ol m. 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 pentan-1-ol m in it.

beef

meat

451 cmpds

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