n-heneicosane
hydrocarbonFound in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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Properties
- Odor description
- alkane, waxy
- Odor threshold — in a food matrix
- 0.560 ppb – 61.2 ppb median 19.0 ppb · 4 published values · see all 4 with sources
- CAS number
- 629-94-7
- Retention index
- 2101
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
0.560 ppb – 61.2 ppbMeasured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.560 ppb | water (food: tomato) | Literature corpus | 27128659 |
| 16.0 ppb | water (food: soy sauce) | Literature corpus | 17898513 |
| 22.0 ppb | water (food: tea) | Literature corpus | 36540235 |
| 61.2 ppb | water (food: unknown) | Literature corpus | 29634770, 31661846, 33850230 +9 |
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 n-heneicosane. 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 n-heneicosane in it.
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