2-isobutylthiazole

green sulfide

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C7H11NS
Molecular weight: 141.24 g/mol
PubChem CID: 62725 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: tomato leaf, green
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 2.8 ppb – 3.5 ppb median 3.1 ppb · 2 published values · see all 3 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 18640-74-9
Retention index: 1002

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

? Partial match

FEMA number: 4647
GRAS publication: GRAS 24
FEMA primary name: 4,5-Dimethyl-2-isobutylthiazole

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.

tomato leaf, green shown above Flavornet Cas

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green tomato note FlavorDB 2.0

earthy, green, leaf, metallic, privet, tomato, tomato leaf, vegetable, wasabi FlavorDB 2.0

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

2.8 ppb – 3.5 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
2.8 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—
3.5 ppb SIDA	water	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

Retronasal / in-mouth

3.0 ppb

Tasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
3.0 ppb	water_flavor	Leffingwell	—

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 2-isobutylthiazole. 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 2-isobutylthiazole in it.

385 cmpds

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