thiophenol

savory thiol

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C6H6S
Molecular weight: 110.18 g/mol
PubChem CID: 7969 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: offensive sulfury taint
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 13500 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 108-98-5

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 3240
GRAS publication: GRAS 4
FEMA primary name: o-TOLUENETHIOL-2-Methylthiophenol

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. 2 related FEMA records for this name — verify the exact substance for regulatory use.

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.

Orthonasal, in clean water

13500 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
13500 ppb	water_odor	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 share

Every ingredient known to contain thiophenol. 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 thiophenol in it.

walleye

fish

27 cmpds

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