benzene ethanol

floral alcohol

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: floral
Odor threshold: 1.18 ppb
Varies by food: 1.18 – 2.48 ppb across the ingredients we hold it in. The figure shown is the lowest of those, not a measurement for any single food.

Not in FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. Of 3,367 listed flavoring substances, none match this compound name. May still be food-safe under other regulatory routes (FDA 21 CFR 172, EFSA, JECFA) — check femaflavor.org for the authoritative current list.

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

benzeneethanol

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

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain benzene ethanol. 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 benzene ethanol in it.

320 cmpds

344 cmpds

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