sulcatone

fruity ketone

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 50.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
CAS number: 110-93-0
Retention index: 1162

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 a food matrix

50.0 ppb

Measured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
50.0 ppb	water (food: litsea pungens fruit)	Literature corpus	25372706, 41183907

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	68 µg/L air	0.0189–2.6e+05	9	8	no (5.5 decades)
ethanol solution	1008 ppb	1.01e+03–1.01e+03	1	1	one paper
food matrix	50 ppb	0.0189–2e+03	34	34	no (3.0 decades)
oil	1000 ppb	1e+03–1e+03	1	1	one paper
unstated	50 ppb	0.0063–5e+04	75	68	no (2.8 decades)
water	68 ppb	0.05–1.6e+03	61	57	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain sulcatone. 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 sulcatone in it.

438 cmpds

564 cmpds

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