2-pentylpyridine

roasted pyridine Key food odorant

Found in 17 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C10H15N
Molecular weight: 149.23 g/mol
PubChem CID: 16800 — 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: fat
Odor threshold — retronasal / in-mouth: 5.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 2294-76-0
Retention index: 1205

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 3383
GRAS publication: GRAS 6
FEMA primary name: 2-PENTYLPYRIDINE

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.

fat shown above Flavornet Cas

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fatty FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree

fat, fatty, green, herbal, mushroom, pepper, tallow FlavorDB 2.0

fat, fatty, tallow, green, pepper, mushroom, herbal FlavorDB 2.0

weak odour intensity 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

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.

Retronasal / in-mouth

5.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
5.0 ppb SIDA	oil_retronasal	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 2-pentylpyridine. 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-pentylpyridine in it.

92 cmpds

99 cmpds

166 cmpds

167 cmpds