pyrazine, 2,5-dimethyl-

roasted pyrazine

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 982.0 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	2600 µg/L air	1.82–3.5e+04	9	7	no (3.2 decades)
food matrix	27.5 ppb	0.17–2.6e+03	22	21	no (3.4 decades)
oil	2000 ppb	120–2.6e+03	5	5	yes
unstated	800 ppb	0.4–3.5e+04	37	33	no (3.1 decades)
water	1750 ppb	0.8–2.6e+03	19	19	no (2.4 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain pyrazine, 2,5-dimethyl-. 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 pyrazine, 2,5-dimethyl- in it.

bread

bakery

210 cmpds

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