12-methyltridecanal

green aldehyde Key food odorant

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C14H28O
Molecular weight: 212.37 g/mol
PubChem CID: 3018619 — full record on PubChem

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: tallowy, beefy
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 0.100 ppb 1 published value · see all 3 with sources
Volatility: low
CAS number: 75853-49-5
Retention index: 75

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

✓ Exact match

FEMA number: 4005
GRAS publication: GRAS 20
FEMA primary name: 12-METHYLTRIDECANAL

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

How this molecule is described

Sources disagree about odour more often than they disagree about chemistry. Rather than show one answer, here is every description on file with how many ingredient records carry it.

Descriptions on file

Ordered by how many independent descriptor streams give each wording, then by how often it appears. The bar is still replication — one source copied onto many ingredients scores high there — so the two can disagree.

tallowy, beefy shown above Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, Flavordb Odor Column 3 sources agree

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unique odor note FlavorDB 2.0

tallow-like FlavorDB 2.0

cooked meat, tallow, fat, meat broth, sweat, cooked, meat, broth, fruity, cookedmeat, meatbroth FlavorDB 2.0

earthy, caramel, roasty, roasted, burnt Flavordb Odor Column

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cooked Flavordb Odor Column

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Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

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.

Orthonasal, in clean water

0.100 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.100 ppb SIDA	water	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

In a food matrix

0.100 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.100 ppb	water (food: beef vegetable gravy)	Literature corpus	—

Other matrix

1860 ppb

Measured in a non-aqueous medium (oil, starch, cellulose).

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1860 ppb SIDA	starch	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

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 12-methyltridecanal. 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 12-methyltridecanal in it.

295 cmpds

431 cmpds

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