trans-geranylacetone

fruity ketone

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: floral-fruity
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 60.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 8 with sources
CAS number: 689-67-8

Not in FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. Of 3,367 listed flavoring substances, none match this compound name. May still be food-safe under other regulatory routes (FDA 21 CFR 172, EFSA, JECFA) — check femaflavor.org for the authoritative current list.

Published thresholds

8 measured values 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

60.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
60.0 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

In a food matrix

0.920 ppb – 1453 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.920 ppb	water (food: mushroom)	Literature corpus	—
3.4 ppb	water (food: wine)	Literature corpus	—
4.0 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	—
33.0 ppb	water (food: chocolate)	Literature corpus	—
1430 ppb	water (food: tomato)	Literature corpus	—
1449 ppb	water (food: bread)	Literature corpus	—
1453 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	—

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 trans-geranylacetone. 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 trans-geranylacetone in it.

519 cmpds

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