methyl stearate

fruity ester

Found in 11 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C19H38O2
Molecular weight: 298.5 g/mol
PubChem CID: 8201 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: fat
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 0.940 ppb – 40.7 ppb median 10.9 ppb · 4 published values · see all 4 with sources
Volatility: low
CAS number: 112-61-8
Retention index: 2106

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.

Also filed as

methyl octadecenoate

Same molecule, unified here — previously counted and displayed as separate compounds.

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.

fat shown above Flavornet Cas

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oily waxy FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree

fatty FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree

cheesy, fatty, chemical, chocolate FlavorDB 2.0

fat, oily, waxy FlavorDB 2.0

cheesy, 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

4 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

0.940 ppb – 40.7 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.940 ppb	water (food: rum)	Literature corpus	24273870, 28446195, 33961167 +7
3.7 ppb	water (food: mushroom)	Literature corpus	40855247
18.0 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	24273870, 28446195, 33961167 +5
40.7 ppb	water (food: grape)	Literature corpus	36890905

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 (10.870000000000001 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 4 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
grape	79.9	7.35	—
mushroom	15.1	1.39	—
rum	15.1	1.38	—

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 stearate. 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 stearate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

112 cmpds

158 cmpds

201 cmpds

305 cmpds