methyl acrylate

fruity ester

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C4H6O2
Molecular weight: 86.09 g/mol
PubChem CID: 7294 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: acrid, pungent, sharp
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 0.500 ppb 1 published value · see all 2 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 96-33-3
Retention index: 938

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.

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.

chemical FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree

butter, chemical, orange FlavorDB 2.0

acrid, pungent, sharp shown above Llm Adjudicated

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orange Flavordb Odor Column

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butter 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

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

0.500 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.500 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	32183818

In air

3.5 ppb

Airborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
3.5 ppb	air	Nagata 2003	—

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 methyl acrylate. 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 acrylate in it.

387 cmpds

407 cmpds

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