3-butylidenephthalide

dairy lactone

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C12H12O2
Molecular weight: 188.22 g/mol
PubChem CID: 5352899 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 1676 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility: medium
CAS number: 551-08-6

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 3333
GRAS publication: GRAS 6
FEMA primary name: 3-BUTYLIDENEPHTHALIDE

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

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

1676 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1676 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	—

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 3-butylidenephthalide. 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 3-butylidenephthalide in it.

kiwifruit

fruit

330 cmpds

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