methyl linolenate

Found in 9 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: butter, banana, fatty, pine
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 3000 ppb – 13000 ppb median 8000 ppb · 2 published values · see all 13 with sources
CAS number: 98-01-1
Retention index: 2076

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 3411
GRAS publication: GRAS 7
FEMA primary name: METHYL LINOLEATE (48%)/METHYL LINOLENATE (52%) MIXTURE

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.

butter, banana, fatty, pine shown above FlavorDB 2.0

butter, banana Flavordb Odor Column

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pine Flavordb Odor Column

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fatty 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

13 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

3000 ppb – 13000 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
3000 ppb SIDA	water	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—
13000 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

In a food matrix

0.255 ppb – 828 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.255 ppb SIDA	water (food: strawberry)	Literature corpus	30779560, 18570373, 17898464 +35
0.700 ppb	water (food: chocolate)	Literature corpus	17898464
2.0 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	28580014, 38846797, 40467248 +1
6.9 ppb	water (food: coffee)	Literature corpus	38480775
7.0 ppb	water (food: fish)	Literature corpus	24594176, 36144849, 37003052
40.0 ppb SIDA	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	18570373, 25857434, 26973023 +13
95.0 ppb SIDA	water (food: honey)	Literature corpus	30779560, 18570373, 17898464 +35
100 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	28882342, 31861730, 32968179
442 ppb	water (food: wine)	Literature corpus	27211676, 32397426
828 ppb SIDA	water (food: bread)	Literature corpus	30779560, 28274420, 28490062 +3

Retronasal / in-mouth

5000 ppb

Tasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
5000 ppb	water_flavor	Leffingwell	—

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 linolenate. 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 linolenate in it.

128 cmpds

235 cmpds

339 cmpds

366 cmpds