thiophen-2-ylmethanethiol

fruity thiol Key food odorant

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Key food odorant (individualist)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 151 individualist odorants — appears in <5% of foods, carries the diagnostic signature of specific ingredients.

Source: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7124–7143

Properties

Odor description: green, fruity, woody
Odor threshold: 15000.0 ppb (1 source, non-SIDA)
CAS number: 6258-63-5

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	0.04 µg/L air	0.04–0.04	3	1	one paper
food matrix	0.04 ppb	0.04–0.04	1	1	one paper
oil	340 ppb	340–340	1	1	one paper
unstated	0.04 ppb	0.001–5e+03	8	8	yes
water	0.0075 ppb	0.005–0.01	2	2	yes

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain thiophen-2-ylmethanethiol. 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 thiophen-2-ylmethanethiol in it.

apricot

fruit

385 cmpds

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