3-hexen-1-yl acetate

fruity ester

Found in 4 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: Sharp fruity and green notes with a yellow fruits direction (Pear ...)
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 8.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 7 with sources
CAS number: 1708-82-3
Retention index: 1312

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 3171
GRAS publication: GRAS 4
FEMA primary name: cis-3-HEXEN-1-YL ACETATE

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

Published thresholds

7 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

8.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
8.0 ppb SIDA	water	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

In a food matrix

31.0 ppb – 4409 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
31.0 ppb	water (food: reference standard (water))	Literature corpus	21750948, 27664650, 34196858
1006 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	21750948, 27664650, 34196858
4409 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	21750948, 27664650

Retronasal / in-mouth

12.1 ppb – 750 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
12.1 ppb SIDA	water_retronasal	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—
750 ppb SIDA	oil_retronasal	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

Other matrix

200 ppb

Measured in a non-aqueous medium (oil, starch, cellulose).

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
200 ppb SIDA	oil_orthonasal	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 3-hexen-1-yl acetate. 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-hexen-1-yl acetate in it.

364 cmpds

375 cmpds

448 cmpds

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