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furfuryl acetate

caramel ester

Found in 22 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of furfuryl acetate
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C7H8O3
Molecular weight
140.14 g/mol
PubChem CID
12170 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description
banana, fruity, horseradish, sweet
Volatility
high
CAS number
623-17-6
Retention index
1463
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number
2490
GRAS publication
GRAS 3
FEMA primary name
FURFURYL ACETATE

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.

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 fruity banana horseradish FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree
1
banana, fruity, horseradish, sweet shown above FlavorDB 2.0
17
Green banana skin FlavorDB 2.0
4

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 furfuryl acetate. 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 furfuryl acetate in it.

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