n-nitrosodimethylamine

roasted nitrogen compound

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C2H6N2O
Molecular weight: 74.08 g/mol
PubChem CID: 6124 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor threshold: 100.0 ppb (1 source, non-SIDA)
Volatility: high
CAS number: 62-75-9

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.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (100.0 ppb). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
pickled and fermented vegetables	15.0	0.15	Corpus paper
meat	10.0	0.10	Corpus paper

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 n-nitrosodimethylamine. 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-nitrosodimethylamine in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

87 cmpds

405 cmpds

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