2-octenol

floral alcohol

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: fatty and oily
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 24.7 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
CAS number: 18409-17-1
Retention index: 1064

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

~ Likely match

FEMA number: 4615
GRAS publication: GRAS 24
FEMA primary name: cis-2-Octenol cis-2-Octen-1-ol

Reported use levels (ppm by food category)

Typical vs maximum reported addition levels in finished food. Use as a regulatory ceiling reference — verify against the current GRAS publication for your product category.

Food category	Typical (ppm)	Maximum (ppm)
soups	0.1	0.5

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

Published thresholds

1 measured value 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

24.7 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
24.7 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	34653803

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-octenol. 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-octenol in it.

325 cmpds

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