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methyl jasmonate

floral ester

Found in 418 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of methyl jasmonate
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C13H20O3
Molecular weight
224.30 g/mol
PubChem CID
5367719 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description
jasmine
Odor threshold
13.0 ppb
Volatility
medium
CAS number
39924-52-2
Retention index
1624
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number
3410
GRAS publication
GRAS 7
FEMA primary name
METHYL JASMONATE

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

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.

jasmine shown above Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, Flavordb Odor Column 3 sources agree
—
sweet FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree
1
floral FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree
1
floral, fresh, jasmine, magnolia, melon, oily, petal, waxy FlavorDB 2.0
377
floral fruity green waxy seedy melon FlavorDB 2.0
37
apple, chemical, citrus, violet FlavorDB 2.0
2

Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (13.0 ppb). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food Concentration (ppb) OAV Source
broccoli 1000000.0 76923 ⚡ PMID 26904036
date 9250.0 712 ⚡ PMID 26420557

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 share

Every ingredient known to contain methyl jasmonate. 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 jasmonate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

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