chlorogenic acid

dairy acid

Found in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

Look up another compound — search by name, CAS number, PubChem CID, or FEMA #.

2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C16H18O9
Molecular weight: 354.31 g/mol
PubChem CID: 1794427 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 8.4 ppb – 355 ppb median 163 ppb · 5 published values · see all 5 with sources
Volatility: low
CAS number: 327-97-9
Retention index: 3

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

5 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.

In a food matrix

8.4 ppb – 355 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
8.4 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	34299388, 36387392, 40226889 +1
25.1 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	23497220, 24483298, 28018403 +14
163 ppb	water (food: beer)	Literature corpus	38698043, 41730959
280 ppb	water (food: tomato)	Literature corpus	38253713
355 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	40282749

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.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (221.765 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 5 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
black mulberry	142100.0	641 ⚡	Corpus paper
cookie	14300.0	64.5 ⚡	Corpus paper
tomato	57.3	0.26	—
tea	21.0	0.09	—
beer	10.1	0.05	—
rice	8.0	0.04	—

Concentrations from PubMed Central Open Access papers (free literature corpus, MIT-style licensed). Copper = OAV ≥ 10 (strongly perceptible). Green = OAV ≥ 1 (perceptible).

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain chlorogenic acid. 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 chlorogenic acid in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

26 cmpds

30 cmpds

315 cmpds

344 cmpds