tetradecanoic acid ethyl ester

fruity ester

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold: 474.77 ppb
CAS number: 124-06-1

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.

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	800 µg/L air	180–2e+04	4	3	no (2.0 decades)
ethanol solution	2.355e+04 ppb	46–4.94e+05	8	8	no (4.0 decades)
food matrix	2000 ppb	180–1.8e+05	16	15	yes
unstated	2000 ppb	1.8–4.94e+05	50	44	yes
water	2200 ppb	0.18–4e+03	4	4	no (4.3 decades)

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain tetradecanoic acid ethyl ester. 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 tetradecanoic acid ethyl ester in it.

honey

plant derivative

364 cmpds

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