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heptyl acetate

fruity ester

Found in 25 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of heptyl acetate
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C9H18O2
Molecular weight
158.24 g/mol
PubChem CID
8159 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description
apricot, fresh, fruit, green, pear, ripe, rum, woody
Odor threshold — in a food matrix
193 ppb – 420 ppb median 193 ppb · 3 published values · see all 4 with sources
Volatility
medium
CAS number
112-06-1
Retention index
1330
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number
2547
GRAS publication
GRAS 3
FEMA primary name
HEPTYL 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.

fresh green rum ripe fruit pear apricot woody FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree
4
apricot, fresh, fruit, green, pear, ripe, rum, woody shown above FlavorDB 2.0
18
Green, citrus, floral, spicy, soapy, aldehydic, fatty FlavorDB 2.0
2

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

Published thresholds

4 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

193 ppb – 420 ppb

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

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
0.004 ppb water (food: beer) Literature corpus 17499755, 33889833
Flagged: 45412× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
193 ppb water (food: lime) Literature corpus 41048468
420 ppb water (food: reference standard (water)) Literature corpus 17499755, 33889833, 41048468

Other matrix

1500 ppb

Measured in a non-aqueous medium (oil, starch, cellulose).

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
1500 ppb wine PMC open access —

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 (90.0 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 4 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food Concentration (ppb) OAV Source
lime 1382.0 15.4 ⚡ Corpus paper
beer 0.5 0.01 —

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 heptyl 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 heptyl acetate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

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