benzoic acid ethyl ester

fruity ester Key food odorant

Found in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Key food odorant (individualist)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 151 individualist odorants — appears in <5% of foods, carries the diagnostic signature of specific ingredients.

Source: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7124–7143

Properties

Odor description: sweet
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 60.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 8 with sources
CAS number: 93-89-0
Retention index: 591

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.

Published thresholds

8 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.

Orthonasal, in clean water

60.0 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
60.0 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

In a food matrix

0.700 ppb – 1174 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.700 ppb	water (food: grape)	Literature corpus	36890905
2.0 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	38846797, 40467248
51.0 ppb	water (food: garlic)	Literature corpus	24789719, 26299134, 35011467 +6
53.0 ppb	water (food: pink guava)	Literature corpus	24789719, 26299134, 35011467 +6
168 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	26299134, 35497223, 41019745 +1
841 ppb	water (food: wine)	Literature corpus	35011467
1174 ppb	water (food: lime)	Literature corpus	24789719

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 share

Every ingredient known to contain benzoic acid ethyl ester. 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 benzoic acid ethyl ester in it.

90 cmpds

104 cmpds

320 cmpds

364 cmpds