benzonitrile

roasted nitrogen compound

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C7H5N
Molecular weight: 103.12 g/mol
PubChem CID: 7505 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: rancid
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 0.700 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 100-47-0
Retention index: 1145

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

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

0.700 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: unknown)	Literature corpus	28446195, 38730294

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 benzonitrile. 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 benzonitrile in it.

227 cmpds

484 cmpds

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