penten-3-ol

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: green, pungent, wet, buttery
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 0.390 ppb – 820 ppb median 410 ppb · 2 published values · see all 2 with sources
CAS number: 763-32-6

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 3584
GRAS publication: GRAS 11
FEMA primary name: 1-PENTEN-3-OL

Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

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.

green FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree

burnt, malty, mushroom, onion, fatty, orange, pungent, almond, butter FlavorDB 2.0

green, pungent, wet, buttery shown above Llm Adjudicated

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burnt, orange, mushroom, pungent, almond Flavordb Odor Column

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burnt, malty, mushroom, onion, fatty Flavordb Odor Column

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butter Flavordb Odor Column

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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

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.

In a food matrix

0.390 ppb – 820 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.390 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	26283896
820 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	26283896

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 (547.12 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 2 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
crab	10000.0	18.3 ⚡	DOI
shrimp	5.0	0.01	—

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 penten-3-ol. 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 penten-3-ol in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

201 cmpds

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