hexanenitrile

roasted nitrogen compound

Found in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C6H11N
Molecular weight: 97.16 g/mol
PubChem CID: 12352 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: unpleasant
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 334 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 628-73-9

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.

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.

Also filed as

hexane nitrile

Same molecule, unified here — previously counted and displayed as separate compounds.

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

334 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
334 ppb	water (food: peanut)	Literature corpus	41103313

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

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
peanut	891.3	2.67	Corpus paper

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 hexanenitrile. 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 hexanenitrile in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

72 cmpds

270 cmpds

290 cmpds

448 cmpds