sec-butyl acetate

fruity ester

Found in 11 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C6H12O2
Molecular weight: 116.16 g/mol
PubChem CID: 7758 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: solvent fruity banana
Odor threshold — in air: 2.4 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 105-46-4

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.

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.

In air

2.4 ppb

Airborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
2.4 ppb	air	Nagata 2003	—

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.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (6.0 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 1 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
tea	2.0	0.33	Corpus paper

Concentrations from PubMed Central Open Access papers (free literature corpus, MIT-style licensed). Copper = OAV ≥ 10 (strongly perceptible). Green = OAV ≥ 1 (perceptible).

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?
water	6 ppb	6–6	1	1	one paper

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain sec-butyl 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 sec-butyl acetate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

✓1 146 cmpds

✓1 146 cmpds

✓1 178 cmpds

✓1 186 cmpds