pinocarvyl acetate
fruity esterFound in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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- Formula
- C12H18O2
- Molecular weight
- 194.27 g/mol
- PubChem CID
- 102553 — full record on PubChem
Properties
- Odor threshold — in a food matrix
- 0.250 ppb – 5.1 ppb median 5.1 ppb · 3 published values · see all 3 with sources
- Volatility
- medium
- CAS number
- 1078-95-1
- Retention index
- 1298
FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use
- FEMA number
- 4807
- GRAS publication
- GRAS 27
- CAS number
- 1078-95-1
- FEMA primary name
- Pinocarvyl acetate
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) |
|---|---|---|
| beverages, alcoholic | 0.5 | 7.5 |
| beverages, non-alcoholic | 0.1 | 5 |
| beverages, nonalcoholic | 0.1 | 5 |
| chewing gum | 0.5 | 7.5 |
| confections and frostings | 0.5 | 7.5 |
| frozen dairy | 0.1 | 5 |
| hard candy | 0.5 | 7.5 |
| imitation dairy | 0.1 | 5 |
| milk products | 0.1 | 5 |
| soft candy | 0.5 | 7.5 |
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
0.250 ppb – 5.1 ppbMeasured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.250 ppb | water (food: tea) | Literature corpus | 41193520 |
| 5.1 ppb | water (food: ginger) | Literature corpus | 41193520 |
| 1330 ppb | water (food: unknown) | Literature corpus | 41193520 |
| Flagged: 263× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden. | |||
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 (5.06 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 3 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.
| Food | Concentration (ppb) | OAV | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tea | 1312.0 | 259 ⚡ | — |
| ginger | 14.6 | 2.89 | — |
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 shareEvery ingredient known to contain pinocarvyl acetate. 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 pinocarvyl acetate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.
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