methyl ester of phenylacetic acid
fruity esterFound in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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Properties
- Odor threshold — in a food matrix
- 94.7 ppb – 590 ppb median 343 ppb · 2 published values · see all 2 with sources
- CAS number
- 101-41-7
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
94.7 ppb – 590 ppbMeasured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 94.7 ppb | water (food: honey) | Literature corpus | — |
| 590 ppb | water (food: unknown) | 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 shareEvery ingredient known to contain methyl ester of phenylacetic acid. 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 ester of phenylacetic acid in it.
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