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vanilic acid

dairy acid

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor threshold — in a food matrix
6.5 ppb – 9.5 ppb median 6.5 ppb · 3 published values · see all 3 with sources
CAS number
121-34-6
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

3 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

6.5 ppb – 9.5 ppb

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

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
0.050 ppb water (food: beer) Literature corpus —
Flagged: 130× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
6.5 ppb water (food: tea) Literature corpus —
9.5 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 vanilic acid. 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 vanilic acid in it.

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