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cis-2-nonenal

green aldehyde Key food odorant

Found in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Key food odorant (generalist)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 16 generalist odorants — appears in >25% of foods, typically from generic Maillard, lipid-oxidation, or fermentation pathways.

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

Properties

Odor description
aldehydic, citrus, cucumber, fat, fatty, green, orris, waxy
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

✓ Exact match
FEMA number
3213
GRAS publication
GRAS 4
FEMA primary name
2-NONENAL

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain cis-2-nonenal. 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-nonenal in it.

ham
meat
106 cmpds
musk melon
fruit
117 cmpds
rocket salad
herb
235 cmpds
lovage
essential oil
281 cmpds
potato
vegetable tuber
463 cmpds
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