methanol
floral alcoholFound in 405 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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- Formula
- CH4O
- Molecular weight
- 32.042 g/mol
- PubChem CID
- 887 — full record on PubChem
Properties
- Odor description
- alcoholic
- Odor threshold — in air
- 33000 ppb – 1513561 ppb median 33000 ppb · 3 published values · see all 3 with sources
- Volatility
- high
- CAS number
- 67-56-1
- Retention index
- 921
FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use
- FEMA number
- 4776
- GRAS publication
- GRAS 26
- FEMA primary name
- (1-Methyl-2-(1,2,2-trimethylbicyclo[3.1.0]hex-3-ylmethyl)cyclopropyl)methanol
Reported use levels (ppm by food category)
Typical vs maximum reported addition levels in finished food. Use as a regulatory ceiling reference — verify against the current GRAS publication for your product category.
| Food category | Typical (ppm) | Maximum (ppm) |
|---|---|---|
| beverages, nonalcoholic | 0.1 | 1 |
| cheeses | 0.1 | 1 |
| chewing gum | 1 | 10 |
| confections and frostings | 0.1 | 5 |
| hard candy | 1 | 10 |
| instant coffee and tea | 0.1 | 1 |
| jams and jellies | 0.1 | 1 |
| milk products | 0.1 | 1 |
| seasonings and flavors | 1 | 10 |
| soft candy | 0.1 | 1 |
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.
In air
33000 ppb – 1513561 ppbAirborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33000 ppb | air | Nagata 2003 | — |
| 33000 ppb | air (food: reference standard (air)) | Literature corpus | — |
| 1513561 ppb | air (C2_cometto_muniz_abraham) | Cometto-Muñiz (PMC) | — |
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 shareEvery ingredient known to contain methanol. 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 methanol in it.
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