benzoic acid, 2-hydroxy-, methyl ester

fruity ester

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 40.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 11 with sources
CAS number: 119-36-8

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

11 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

40.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
40.0 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

In a food matrix

0.960 ppb – 1814 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.960 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	32968179, 39877541
1.5 ppb	water (food: tomato)	Literature corpus	28050733
1.9 ppb	water (food: wine)	Literature corpus	36496598
7.0 ppb	water (food: fish)	Literature corpus	17898464, 26299134, 28050733 +15
13.0 ppb	water (food: apple)	Literature corpus	34196858
58.0 ppb	water (food: lime)	Literature corpus	41048468
135 ppb	water (food: chocolate)	Literature corpus	17898464
171 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	26299134, 29238032, 31407199 +6
1194 ppb	water (food: beef)	Literature corpus	37701748
1814 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	36307468

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, 2-hydroxy-, methyl 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, 2-hydroxy-, methyl ester in it.

rice

cereal

432 cmpds

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