benzylaldehyde

fruity aldehyde

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: floral and fruity
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 1925 ppb 1 published value · see all 21 with sources
CAS number: 100-52-7

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

21 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

1925 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1925 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

In a food matrix

0.100 ppb – 525 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.100 ppb SIDA	water (food: strawberry)	Literature corpus	30779560, 32625638, 33714268 +97
0.200 ppb	water (food: pepper)	Literature corpus	34716586, 40060959
0.318 ppb	water (food: beer)	Literature corpus	17499755, 33889833
0.870 ppb	water (food: lime)	Literature corpus	17944532, 30972045, 41048468
1.0 ppb	water (food: apple)	Literature corpus	34196858
1.5 ppb	water (food: grape)	Literature corpus	36890905
5.0 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	25442558, 38846797, 40467248 +1
5.5 ppb	water (food: ginger)	Literature corpus	41193520
5.6 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	31861730, 32968179, 33347483 +1
7.0 ppb	water (food: fish)	Literature corpus	24594176, 36144849, 36950329 +2
9.0 ppb SIDA	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	32625638, 33714268, 18974891 +58
41.4 ppb	water (food: soy sauce)	Literature corpus	17898513
53.1 ppb SIDA	water (food: honey)	Literature corpus	32625638, 23341742
156 ppb	water (food: peach)	Literature corpus	37476402
470 ppb	water (food: tomato)	Literature corpus	39227423, 39789073
525 ppb	water (food: wine)	Literature corpus	32397426
756 ppb	water (food: cocoa)	Literature corpus	36900586
Flagged: 108× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
758 ppb	water (food: beef)	Literature corpus	38974721
Flagged: 108× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
965 ppb SIDA	water (food: bread)	Literature corpus	33714268, 28274420, 28490062 +4
Flagged: 138× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.

Retronasal / in-mouth

1500 ppb

Tasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1500 ppb SIDA	water_flavor	Leffingwell	30779560

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 benzylaldehyde. 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 benzylaldehyde in it.

black tea

beverage caffeinated

586 cmpds

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