acrylamide
Found in 15 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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Properties
- Odor threshold — in a food matrix
- 3.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
- CAS number
- 79-06-1
FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use
- FEMA number
- 4877
- GRAS publication
- GRAS 28
- CAS number
- 76733-95-4
- FEMA primary name
- (E)-3-(3,4-Dimethoxyphenyl)-N-[2-(4-methoxyphenyl)-ethyl]-acrylamide
Reported use levels (ppm by food category)
Typical vs maximum reported addition levels in finished food. Use as a regulatory ceiling reference — verify against the current GRAS publication for your product category.
| Food category | Typical (ppm) | Maximum (ppm) |
|---|---|---|
| breakfast cereals | 15 | 30 |
| cheeses | 20 | 50 |
| condiments and relishes | 25 | 50 |
| fats and oils | 20 | 50 |
| fish products | 15 | 50 |
| gravies | 20 | 50 |
| meat products | 20 | 50 |
| poultry | 15 | 50 |
| reconstituted vegetables | 20 | 50 |
| seasonings and flavors | 50 | 80 |
| snack foods | 50 | 80 |
| soups | 20 | 50 |
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
3.0 ppbMeasured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 ppb | water (food: unknown) | Literature corpus | 27779619 |
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 acrylamide. 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 acrylamide in it.
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