prenyl acetate

fruity ester

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: fruity, banana, sweet, green, floral
Retention index: 942

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 4202
GRAS publication: GRAS 22
FEMA primary name: Prenyl 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)
baked goods	10	100
beverages (alcoholic)	1.5	15
beverages (nonalcoholic)	0.3	3
breakfast cereal	0.3	1.5
chewing gum	15	100
confectionery frostings	1.5	10
egg products	1.5	10
fats/oils	1.5	10
frozen dairy	6	60
fruit ices	3	30
gelatins/ puddings	3	30
hard candy	5	50
instant coffee/tea	0.6	6
jams/jellies	3	30
milk products	0.6	6
seasonings/ flavors	1.5	15
soft candy	3	30

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.

balsam, banana, fresh, fruity, heliotrope, jasmin, lavender, ripe, sweet FlavorDB 2.0

sweet banana fruity ripe floral green FlavorDB 2.0

fruity, banana, sweet, green, floral shown above Llm Adjudicated

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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.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain prenyl 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 prenyl acetate in it.

24 cmpds

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