2-methyl-2-hepten-6-one

fruity ketone

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 1.2 ppb – 1330 ppb median 54.0 ppb · 7 published values · see all 8 with sources
CAS number: 110-93-0
Retention index: 1349

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.

Published thresholds

8 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

1.2 ppb – 1330 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.070 ppb	water (food: fish)	Literature corpus	41183907
Flagged: 771× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
1.2 ppb	water (food: pepper)	Literature corpus	25372706, 41183907
50.0 ppb	water (food: litsea pungens fruit)	Literature corpus	25372706, 41183907
54.0 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	25372706, 41183907
866 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	25372706
985 ppb	water (food: bread)	Literature corpus	25372706, 41183907
1330 ppb	water (food: beer)	Literature corpus	25372706, 41183907

In air

10.0 ppb

Airborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
10.0 ppb	air (HS_hellman_small)	Cometto-Muñiz (PMC)	—

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-methyl-2-hepten-6-one. 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-methyl-2-hepten-6-one in it.

mushroom

fungus

434 cmpds

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