theobromine

other nitrogen compound

Found in 543 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C7H8N4O2
Molecular weight: 180.16 g/mol
PubChem CID: 5429 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: bitter
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 4.7 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility: medium
CAS number: 83-67-0

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

~ Likely match

FEMA number: 3591
GRAS publication: GRAS 11
FEMA primary name: THEOBROMINE(4)

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

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.

In a food matrix

4.7 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
4.7 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	41617902

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

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
tea	11.9	2.52	—

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 theobromine. 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 theobromine in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

617 cmpds

14 cmpds

14 cmpds

14 cmpds