homofuraneol

caramel furan Key food odorant

Found in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C7H10O3
Molecular weight: 142.15 g/mol
PubChem CID: 93111 — full record on PubChem

Key food odorant (intermediary)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 57 intermediary odorants — appears in 5–25% of foods.

Source: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7124–7143

Properties

Odor description: caramel, sweet
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 1.1 ppb – 43.0 ppb median 22.1 ppb · 2 published values · see all 3 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 27538-09-6

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

5-ethyl-4-hydroxy-2-methyl-3(2h)-furanone

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

Published thresholds

3 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

1.1 ppb – 43.0 ppb

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

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

Retronasal / in-mouth

5.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
5.0 ppb SIDA	water_retronasal	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

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 homofuraneol. 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 homofuraneol in it.

115 cmpds

186 cmpds

320 cmpds

521 cmpds