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cis-2-hexenal

green aldehyde Key food odorant

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Key food odorant (individualist)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 151 individualist odorants — appears in <5% of foods, carries the diagnostic signature of specific ingredients. Characteristic odor: green, apple-like.

Source: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7124–7143

Properties

Odor description
grassy
Odor threshold — in a food matrix
2.5 ppb – 1202 ppb median 119 ppb · 10 published values · see all 10 with sources
CAS number
505-57-7
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number
2560
GRAS publication
GRAS 3
FEMA primary name
2-HEXENAL

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

Published thresholds

10 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

2.5 ppb – 1202 ppb

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

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
0.130 ppb water (food: melon) Literature corpus —
Flagged: 916× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
0.950 ppb water (food: tomato) Literature corpus —
Flagged: 125× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
2.5 ppb water (food: tea) Literature corpus —
17.0 ppb water (food: goat milk) Literature corpus —
63.3 ppb water (food: apple) Literature corpus —
175 ppb water (food: unknown) Literature corpus —
180 ppb water (food: fish) Literature corpus —
190 ppb water (food: reference standard (water)) Literature corpus —
853 ppb water (food: bread) Literature corpus —
1202 ppb water (food: olive oil) Literature corpus —

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 cis-2-hexenal. 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 cis-2-hexenal in it.

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