4-octanone
fruity ketoneFound in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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- Formula
- C8H16O
- Molecular weight
- 128.21 g/mol
- PubChem CID
- 11516 — full record on PubChem
Properties
- Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water
- 100 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
- Volatility
- high
- CAS number
- 589-63-9
FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use
- FEMA number
- 2587
- GRAS publication
- GRAS 3
- FEMA primary name
- 5-HYDROXY-4-OCTANONE
Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.
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.
Orthonasal, in clean water
100 ppbThe reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 ppb | water | PMC open access | — |
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 shareEvery ingredient known to contain 4-octanone. 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 4-octanone in it.
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