ethyl (e)-2-butenoate

fruity ester

Found in 4 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: fruity, cashew-like
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 37.0 ppb 2 published values · see all 2 with sources
CAS number: 623-70-1
Retention index: 1176

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

ethyl trans-2-butenoate

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

Published thresholds

2 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

37.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
37.0 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	—
37.0 ppb	water (food: wine)	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 ethyl (e)-2-butenoate. 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 ethyl (e)-2-butenoate in it.

24 cmpds

107 cmpds

208 cmpds

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