cis-3-hexenyl acetate

fruity ester Key food odorant

Found in 415 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.

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

Properties

Odor description: green, fresh, banana, apple, fruity
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 8.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 7 with sources
CAS number: 1708-82-3
Retention index: 1314

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 4413
GRAS publication: GRAS 23
FEMA primary name: trans-3-Hexenyl acetate

Reported use levels (ppm by food category)

Typical vs maximum reported addition levels in finished food. Use as a regulatory ceiling reference — verify against the current GRAS publication for your product category.

Food category	Typical (ppm)	Maximum (ppm)
beverages (alcoholic)	2	10
beverages (nonalcoholic)	2	10
chewing gum	5	25
hard candy	5	25
soft candy	5	25

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

How this molecule is described

Sources disagree about odour more often than they disagree about chemistry. Rather than show one answer, here is every description on file with how many ingredient records carry it.

Also filed as

cis-3-hexenylacetate z-3-hexenyl acetate

Same molecule, unified here — previously counted and displayed as separate compounds.

Descriptions on file

Ordered by how many independent descriptor streams give each wording, then by how often it appears. The bar is still replication — one source copied onto many ingredients scores high there — so the two can disagree.

apple, banana, fresh, fruity, grassy, green, sweet FlavorDB 2.0

411

fruity FlavorDB 2.0

green, banana, fresh, sweet, fruity, apple, grassy FlavorDB 2.0

green, fresh, banana, apple, fruity shown above Llm Adjudicated

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Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Published thresholds

7 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

8.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
8.0 ppb SIDA	water	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

In a food matrix

31.0 ppb – 4409 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
31.0 ppb	water (food: reference standard (water))	Literature corpus	21750948, 27664650, 34196858
1006 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	21750948, 27664650, 34196858
4409 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	21750948, 27664650

Retronasal / in-mouth

12.1 ppb – 750 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
12.1 ppb SIDA	water_retronasal	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—
750 ppb SIDA	oil_retronasal	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

Other matrix

200 ppb

Measured in a non-aqueous medium (oil, starch, cellulose).

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
200 ppb SIDA	oil_orthonasal	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

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-3-hexenyl acetate. 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-3-hexenyl acetate in it.

33 cmpds

33 cmpds

36 cmpds

45 cmpds