methoxypyrazine

roasted pyrazine

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C5H6N2O
Molecular weight: 110.11 g/mol
PubChem CID: 18467 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: sweet, nutty, cocoa
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 550 ppb 1 published value · see all 3 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 3149-28-8

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 3132
GRAS publication: GRAS 4
FEMA primary name: 2.iso-BUTYL-3-METHOXYPYRAZINE

Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

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

550 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
550 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

In a food matrix

0.040 ppb – 4.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.040 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	—
4.0 ppb	water (food: ginger)	Literature corpus	—

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 methoxypyrazine. 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 methoxypyrazine in it.

cocoa

seed

484 cmpds

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