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thiamine hydrochloride

Found in 271 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description
bitter, mild, sour
Odor threshold
76.85 ppb
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number
3322
GRAS publication
GRAS 5
FEMA primary name
Thiamine hydrochloride

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

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.

bitter, mild, sour shown above FlavorDB 2.0
295
sour mild bitter 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.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (76.85 ppb). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food Concentration (ppb) OAV Source
purple sweet corn 5220.0 67.9 ⚡ Corpus paper

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 thiamine hydrochloride. 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 thiamine hydrochloride in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

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