hexyl hexanoate

fruity ester

Found in 51 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C12H24O2
Molecular weight: 200.32 g/mol
PubChem CID: 22873 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: fruity, green apple, herbal, fresh, peach
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 1.4 ppb – 24.5 ppb median 5.0 ppb · 3 published values · see all 5 with sources
Volatility: medium
CAS number: 6378-65-0
Retention index: 1385

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 2572
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: HEXYL HEXANOATE

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.

apple peel, peach Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, Flavordb Odor Column 3 sources agree

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apple peel, cut grass, fresh, fruity, herbal, peach, vegetable FlavorDB 2.0

sweet fruity green tropical FlavorDB 2.0

apple, fatty, chemical, floral, sweet, passion fruit, woody, cinnamon FlavorDB 2.0

fruity, green apple, herbal, fresh, peach shown above Llm Adjudicated

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floral, woody, sweet, cinnamon Flavordb Odor Column

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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

5 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

1.4 ppb – 24.5 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1.4 ppb	water (food: apple)	Literature corpus	37021304
5.0 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	38846797, 40467248
24.5 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	25717332

In air

10.0 ppb

Airborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
10.0 ppb	air (food: apple)	PMC open access	—

Other matrix

1890 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1890 ppb	unknown	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 (14.74575 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 5 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
apple	355.0	24.1 ⚡	Corpus paper
rice	2.0	0.14	—

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 hexyl hexanoate. 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 hexyl hexanoate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

527 cmpds

13 cmpds

spineless monkey orange

fruit

18 cmpds

strawberry jam

berry

26 cmpds