methyl 2-furoate
esterFound in 33 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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Properties
- Odor description
- fruity, fungal, mushroom, sweet, tobacco
- Odor threshold — in a food matrix
- 41.0 ppb – 1561 ppb median 801 ppb · 2 published values · see all 2 with sources
- CAS number
- 611-13-2
- Retention index
- 1020
FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use
- FEMA number
- 2703
- GRAS publication
- GRAS 3
- FEMA primary name
- METHYL 2-FUROATE
Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.
Published thresholds
2 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
41.0 ppb – 1561 ppbMeasured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41.0 ppb | water (food: fish) | Literature corpus | — |
| 1561 ppb | water (food: wine) | 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.
Where you'd actually smell it
Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (801.0 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 2 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.
| Food | Concentration (ppb) | OAV | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sausage | 665.6 | 0.83 | — |
| fish | 38.0 | 0.05 | — |
| wine | 28.3 | 0.04 | — |
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 shareEvery ingredient known to contain methyl 2-furoate. 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 methyl 2-furoate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.
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