tanoic acid

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: banana, cheesy, rancid, chemical, cooked

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 4288
GRAS publication: GRAS 23
FEMA primary name: 4-Aminobutyric acid gamma-Aminobutanoic acid gamma-Aminobutryic acid omega-Aminobutyric 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	50	300
beverages (alcoholic)	30	200
beverages (nonalcoholic)	20	100
breakfast cereal	30	100
chewing gum	100	500
confectionery frostings	30	100
fats/oils	30	100
fruit ices	20	100
gelatins/ puddings	20	100
hard candy	40	300
instant coffee/tea	20	100
meat products	20	200
milk products	30	100
snack foods	10	100
soft candy	20	200
soups	30	200

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. 22 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.

banana, cheesy, rancid, chemical, cooked shown above FlavorDB 2.0

banana, cheesy, rancid Flavordb Odor Column

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chemical Flavordb Odor Column

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cooked 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.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain tanoic 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 tanoic acid in it.

baijiu

Beverage

201 cmpds

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