octacosane

woody hydrocarbon

Found in 9 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C28H58
Molecular weight: 394.8 g/mol
PubChem CID: 12408 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 0.800 ppb – 41.0 ppb median 2.0 ppb · 3 published values · see all 3 with sources
Volatility: low
CAS number: 630-02-4
Retention index: 2800

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

3 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

0.800 ppb – 41.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.800 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	23497569, 29375811, 31661846 +2
2.0 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	41647422
41.0 ppb	water (food: soy sauce)	Literature corpus	17898513

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 (2.036 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 3 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
tea	55.0	27.0 ⚡	—
soybean sauce	0.1	0.05	—

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

223 cmpds

273 cmpds

302 cmpds

329 cmpds