phenylmethyl acetate

fruity ester

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 18.0 ppb (1 source, non-SIDA)
CAS number: 140-11-4

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	327 µg/L air	1–450	6	4	no (2.6 decades)
ethanol solution	270 ppb	270–270	1	1	one paper
food matrix	208.1 ppb	2–1.24e+05	8	8	no (3.3 decades)
unstated	364 ppb	2–2.3e+03	11	11	yes
water	197 ppb	2–364	10	9	no (2.3 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain phenylmethyl acetate. 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 phenylmethyl acetate in it.

green tea

beverage caffeinated

564 cmpds

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