butyl formate

fruity ester

Found in 10 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C5H10O2
Molecular weight: 102.13 g/mol
PubChem CID: 11614 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: brandy, fruity, plum, rum
Odor threshold — in air: 87.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 592-84-7
Retention index: 756

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 2196
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: BUTYL FORMATE

Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. 1 related FEMA record for this name — verify the exact substance for regulatory use.

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 air

87.0 ppb

Airborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
87.0 ppb	air	Nagata 2003	—

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 butyl formate. 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 butyl formate in it.

81 cmpds

178 cmpds

220 cmpds

230 cmpds