ethyl (e)-3-hexenoate

fruity ester

Found in 4 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C8H14O2
Molecular weight: 142.20 g/mol
PubChem CID: 5362622 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: sweet green fruity passion fruit guava pineapple papaya weedy honey
Volatility: high
CAS number: 26553-46-8

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.

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.

sweet green fruity passion fruit guava pineapple papaya weedy honey shown above FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree

sweet fruity green passion fruit pineapple rummy honey papaya weedy FlavorDB 2.0

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

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain ethyl (e)-3-hexenoate. 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)-3-hexenoate in it.

275 cmpds

383 cmpds

426 cmpds

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