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diethyl succinate

fruity ester

Found in 32 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of diethyl succinate
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C8H14O4
Molecular weight
174.19 g/mol
PubChem CID
31249 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description
wine, fruit
Odor threshold — in a food matrix
0.420 ppb – 3.2 ppb median 1.1 ppb · 5 published values · see all 6 with sources
Volatility
medium
CAS number
123-25-1
Retention index
1674
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number
2377
GRAS publication
GRAS 3
FEMA primary name
DIETHYL SUCCINATE

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

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
diethyl butanedioate

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.

wine, fruit shown above Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, Flavordb Odor Column 3 sources agree
—
apple, apricot, chocolate, cooked, cranberry, fruit, fruity, grape, mild, musty, peach, pear, wine, ylang FlavorDB 2.0
23
fruity tart tropical floral passion fruit FlavorDB 2.0
7
mild fruity cooked apple ylang FlavorDB 2.0
1

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

6 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

0.420 ppb – 3.2 ppb

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

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
0.420 ppb SIDA water (food: lime) Literature corpus 18570373, 26973621, 32397426 +1
1.0 ppb water (food: rice) Literature corpus 26973621
1.1 ppb water (food: wine) Literature corpus 32397426, 32657431
3.2 ppb SIDA water (food: honey) Literature corpus 18570373, 26973621, 32397426 +1
860 ppb SIDA water (food: unknown) Literature corpus 18570373
Flagged: 782× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.

Other matrix

1200 ppb

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

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
1200 ppb SIDA wine (food: red wine (cabernet sauvignon)) Literature corpus 18570373, 26973621, 32397426 +1

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 (1.1 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 6 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food Concentration (ppb) OAV Source
cabernet sauvignon wine 2800.0 2545 ⚡ —
wine 730.0 664 ⚡ —
honey 13.5 12.3 ⚡ —
rice 1.1 1.00 —
lime 0.1 0.06 —

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 diethyl succinate. 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 diethyl succinate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

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