quinoline

roasted nitrogen compound

Found in 14 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C9H7N
Molecular weight: 129.16 g/mol
PubChem CID: 7047 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: earthy, medicinal, tobacco, woody, musty
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 700 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 91-22-5

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 3470
GRAS publication: GRAS 9
FEMA primary name: QUINOLINE

Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

How this molecule is described

Sources disagree about odour more often than they disagree about chemistry. Rather than show one answer, here is every description on file with how many ingredient records carry it.

Descriptions on file

Ordered by how many independent descriptor streams give each wording, then by how often it appears. The bar is still replication — one source copied onto many ingredients scores high there — so the two can disagree.

earthy, medical, musty, rubber, tobacco FlavorDB 2.0

at 2.00 - 10.00 ppm. FlavorDB 2.0

earthy, medicinal, tobacco, woody, musty shown above Llm Adjudicated

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Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Published thresholds

1 measured value from the literature. Grouped by what was actually measured — a threshold smelled in clean water, tasted in the mouth, or measured in a real food are three different quantities and are not pooled.

Orthonasal, in clean water

700 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
700 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

Only values we can attribute are listed. Where a compendium's licence does not permit public attribution its figures are omitted here, so every number on this page traces to a citable source.

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	710 µg/L air	710–710	1	1	one paper
unstated	710 ppb	710–710	2	2	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain quinoline. 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 quinoline in it.

✓1 66 cmpds

107 cmpds

109 cmpds

118 cmpds