methyl thiocyanate

savory sulfide

Found in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C2H3NS
Molecular weight: 73.12 g/mol
PubChem CID: 11168 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: sulfur
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 10.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 2 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 556-64-9
Retention index: 665

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.

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.

Orthonasal, in clean water

10.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
10.0 ppb SIDA	water	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

In a food matrix

711 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
711 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	34064846

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 thiocyanate. 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 thiocyanate in it.

270 cmpds

295 cmpds

301 cmpds

302 cmpds