1,4-dione

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: chemical
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 0.060 ppb – 23.5 ppb median 0.600 ppb · 3 published values · see all 3 with sources
CAS number: 3796-70-1

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 3421
GRAS publication: GRAS 7
FEMA primary name: 2,6,6-TRIMETHYLCYCLOHEX-2-ENE-1,4-DIONE

Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

Published thresholds

3 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 a food matrix

0.060 ppb – 23.5 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.060 ppb	water (food: rum)	Literature corpus	17898464, 27679452, 29748791 +11
0.600 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	38846797, 40467248
23.5 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	27679452, 29748791, 40366211 +2

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.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain 1,4-dione. 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 1,4-dione in it.

201 cmpds

407 cmpds

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