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oic acid

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description
waxy, fatty, sweet
Odor threshold — in a food matrix
2.3 ppb – 244 ppb median 4.8 ppb · 5 published values · see all 5 with sources
CAS number
124-06-1
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

? Partial match
FEMA number
4891
GRAS publication
GRAS 29
CAS number
2088117-65-9
FEMA primary name
(E)-3-Methyl-4-dodecenoic acid

Reported use levels (ppm by food category)

Typical vs maximum reported addition levels in finished food. Use as a regulatory ceiling reference — verify against the current GRAS publication for your product category.

Food category Typical (ppm) Maximum (ppm)
baked goods 0.1 1
beverages, alcoholic 0.001 0.1
beverages, non-alcoholic 0.001 0.1
chewing gum 0.001 0.1
confections and frostings 0.001 0.3
egg products 0.001 0.3
fats and oils 0.01 1
fish products 0.001 0.3
frozen dairy 0.001 0.2
fruit ices 0.001 0.2
gelatins and puddings 0.01 0.1
gravies 0.001 0.05
hard candy 0.001 0.3
imitation dairy 0.0001 0.05
instant coffee and tea 0.0001 0.1
milk products 0.001 0.05
nut products 0.001 0.05
seasonings and flavors 0.01 2
snack foods 0.001 0.3
soft candy 0.001 0.3
soups 0.0001 0.3
sugar substitutes 0.001 0.05
Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. 120 related FEMA records for this name — verify the exact substance for regulatory use.

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.

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.

pear FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree
1
clove FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree
1
apple, caramel, pear, roasted, malty, sweaty, vinegar FlavorDB 2.0
1
waxy, fatty, sweet shown above Llm Adjudicated
—
caramel, roasted, malty, sweaty, vinegar Flavordb Odor Column
—
caramel, pear Flavordb Odor Column
—

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

5 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

2.3 ppb – 244 ppb

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

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
2.3 ppb water (food: rice) Literature corpus 38846797, 40467248
2.4 ppb water (food: lime) Literature corpus 29086878, 36950329, 38846797 +1
4.8 ppb water (food: tea) Literature corpus 29086878
28.1 ppb water (food: wine) Literature corpus 29086878, 36950329, 38846797 +1
244 ppb water (food: fish) Literature corpus 36950329

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 oic acid. 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 oic acid in it.

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