ethyl pentadecanoate

fruity oxygenated compound

Found in 9 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C17H34O2
Molecular weight: 270.5 g/mol
PubChem CID: 38762 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: honey sweet
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 1.7 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility: low
CAS number: 41114-00-5
Retention index: 2159

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.

Published thresholds

1 measured value 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

1.7 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1.7 ppb	water (food: wine)	Literature corpus	41365581

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

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
wine	1.5	0.92	—

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 ethyl pentadecanoate. 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 pentadecanoate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

565 cmpds

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81 cmpds

357 cmpds