5-methyl-2-furanmethanol
caramel furanFound in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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Properties
- Odor threshold — in a food matrix
- 1.9 ppb – 35.6 ppb median 18.7 ppb · 2 published values · see all 2 with sources
- CAS number
- 3857-25-8
- Retention index
- 1336
Published thresholds
2 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.
In a food matrix
1.9 ppb – 35.6 ppbMeasured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.9 ppb | water (food: rum) | Literature corpus | 32967724 |
| 35.6 ppb | water (food: beer) | Literature corpus | 35292687 |
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 5-methyl-2-furanmethanol. 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 5-methyl-2-furanmethanol in it.
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