secondary alcohols

floral alcohol

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold — in air: 33000 ppb – 1513561 ppb median 773281 ppb · 2 published values · see all 2 with sources
CAS number: 67-56-1

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

2 measured values 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

33000 ppb – 1513561 ppb

Airborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
33000 ppb	air	Nagata 2003	—
1513561 ppb	air (C1_cometto_muniz_cain)	Cometto-Muñiz (PMC)	—

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	1.095e+05 µg/L air	1e+05–2e+06	4	3	yes
food matrix	4.995e+05 ppb	1e+05–6.68e+05	4	4	yes
unstated	1.155e+05 ppb	100–1e+09	16	12	no (4.3 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain secondary alcohols. 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 secondary alcohols in it.

34 cmpds

170 cmpds

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