amyl acetate

fruity ester

Found in 16 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C7H14O2
Molecular weight: 130.18 g/mol
PubChem CID: 12348 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: banana, fruity, pear, sweet, ethereal
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 43.0 ppb – 368 ppb median 79.0 ppb · 4 published values · see all 4 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 628-63-7
Retention index: 916

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

✓ Exact match

FEMA number: 2055
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: iso-AMYL ACETATE

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

How this molecule is described

Sources disagree about odour more often than they disagree about chemistry. Rather than show one answer, here is every description on file with how many ingredient records carry it.

Also filed as

pentyl acetate

Same molecule, unified here — previously counted and displayed as separate compounds.

Descriptions on file

Ordered by how many independent descriptor streams give each wording, then by how often it appears. The bar is still replication — one source copied onto many ingredients scores high there — so the two can disagree.

banana, ethereal, fruity FlavorDB 2.0

Sweet, fruity, pear-like, with overripe banana notes FlavorDB 2.0

banana, fruity, pear, sweet, ethereal shown above Llm Adjudicated

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Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Published thresholds

4 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

43.0 ppb – 368 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
43.0 ppb	water (food: reference standard (water))	Literature corpus	11272845, 41103313
76.0 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	11272845
82.0 ppb	water (food: chocolate)	Literature corpus	11272845, 41103313
368 ppb	water (food: peanut)	Literature corpus	41103313

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.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (82.0 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 4 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
grape	20000.0	244 ⚡	DOI
pear	19600.0	239 ⚡	PMID 40276714
peanut	915.3	11.2 ⚡	Corpus paper
banana	50.0	0.61	Corpus paper
chocolate	0.2	0.00	—

Concentrations from PubMed Central Open Access papers (free literature corpus, MIT-style licensed). Copper = OAV ≥ 10 (strongly perceptible). Green = OAV ≥ 1 (perceptible).

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain amyl 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 amyl acetate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

pear

measured · OAV 239.02

364 cmpds

366 cmpds

177 cmpds

198 cmpds