dodecanoic acid ethyl ester

fruity ester

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: sweaty/cheesy
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 1.1 ppb – 114 ppb median 4.8 ppb · 9 published values · see all 9 with sources
CAS number: 106-33-2

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.

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

dodecanoic acid, ethyl ester

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

Published thresholds

9 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

1.1 ppb – 114 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.002 ppb	water (food: beer)	Literature corpus	29086878, 35396186, 36496598 +3
Flagged: 2683× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
1.1 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	38846797, 40467248
1.1 ppb	water (food: grape)	Literature corpus	29086878, 35396186, 36496598 +3
3.2 ppb	water (food: lime)	Literature corpus	29086878, 35396186, 36496598 +3
4.8 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	29086878
53.0 ppb	water (food: wine)	Literature corpus	36496598
114 ppb	water (food: fish)	Literature corpus	36950329
1248 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	35396186
Flagged: 258× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
1594 ppb	water (food: rum)	Literature corpus	29086878, 35396186, 36496598 +3
Flagged: 330× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.

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 dodecanoic acid ethyl ester. 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 dodecanoic acid ethyl ester in it.

320 cmpds

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