heptanoic acid ethyl ester

fruity ester

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 2.2 ppb 2 published values · see all 10 with sources
CAS number: 106-30-9

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

10 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.

Orthonasal, in clean water

2.2 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
2.2 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—
2.2 ppb SIDA	water	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

In a food matrix

46.0 ppb – 1329 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.014 ppb	water (food: beer)	Literature corpus	17499755, 33889833
Flagged: 23643× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
2.0 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	38846797, 40467248
Flagged: 166× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
46.0 ppb	water (food: lime)	Literature corpus	41048468
331 ppb SIDA	water (food: wine)	Literature corpus	30779560, 17499755, 25857434 +7
474 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	25857434, 36608556
705 ppb	water (food: peanut)	Literature corpus	41103313
1329 ppb SIDA	water (food: bread)	Literature corpus	30779560, 29579975

Retronasal / in-mouth

170 ppb

Tasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
170 ppb	water_flavor	Leffingwell	—

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 heptanoic 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 heptanoic acid ethyl ester in it.

honey

plant derivative

364 cmpds

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