piperonal
green aldehyde Key food odorantFound in 11 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.
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- Formula
- C8H6O3
- Molecular weight
- 150.13 g/mol
- PubChem CID
- 8438 — full record on PubChem
Key food odorant (individualist)
Dunkel et al. 2014Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 151 individualist odorants — appears in <5% of foods, carries the diagnostic signature of specific ingredients.
Properties
- Odor description
- bitter, coconut, flower, heliotrope, powdery, sweet, vanilla, violet
- Odor threshold — retronasal / in-mouth
- 4.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
- Volatility
- medium
- CAS number
- 120-57-0
FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use
- FEMA number
- 2911
- GRAS publication
- GRAS 3
- FEMA primary name
- PIPERONAL
Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.
Published thresholds
1 measured value 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.
Retronasal / in-mouth
4.0 ppbTasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.
| Threshold | Matrix | Source | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 ppb | water_flavor | Leffingwell | — |
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 shareEvery ingredient known to contain piperonal. 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 piperonal in it.
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