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undecane

woody hydrocarbon

Found in 16 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of undecane
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C11H24
Molecular weight
156.31 g/mol
PubChem CID
14257 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description
alkane
Odor threshold — in a food matrix
5.2 ppb – 1155 ppb median 476 ppb · 8 published values · see all 9 with sources
Volatility
low
CAS number
1120-21-4
Retention index
1100
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.

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.

alkane shown above Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 4 sources agree
15
allspice aroma FlavorDB 2.0
1

Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Published thresholds

9 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.

In a food matrix

5.2 ppb – 1155 ppb

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

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
5.2 ppb water (food: tea) Literature corpus 30257572, 30262095, 35521270 +1
45.0 ppb water (food: fish) Literature corpus 30257572, 30262095, 35521270 +1
53.0 ppb water (food: melon) Literature corpus 30257572, 30262095, 35521270 +1
57.0 ppb water (food: lamb) Literature corpus 30257572, 30262095, 35521270 +1
896 ppb water (food: unknown) Literature corpus 30257572, 30262095, 35521270 +1
1100 ppb water (food: milk) Literature corpus 30257572, 30262095, 35521270 +1
1109 ppb water (food: beef) Literature corpus 30257572, 30262095, 35521270 +1
1155 ppb water (food: bread) Literature corpus 30257572, 30262095, 35521270 +1

In air

870 ppb

Airborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
870 ppb air Nagata 2003 —

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 undecane. 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 undecane in it.

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