whisky lactone

dairy lactone

Found in 3 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: coconut, oak, woody, celery
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 67.0 ppb – 790 ppb median 428 ppb · 2 published values · see all 9 with sources
CAS number: 94319-38-7
Retention index: 1876

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.

boisé FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree

oak, coconut FlavorDB 2.0

coconut, oak, woody, celery shown above Llm Adjudicated

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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.

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.

Orthonasal, in clean water

67.0 ppb – 790 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
67.0 ppb SIDA	water/ethanol 6:4 (food: american bourbon whisky)	Literature corpus	18570373
790 ppb SIDA	water/ethanol 6:4 (food: american bourbon whisky)	Literature corpus	18570373

In a food matrix

440 ppb – 1898 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
440 ppb SIDA	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	18570373
1898 ppb SIDA	water (food: wine)	Literature corpus	18570373

Retronasal / in-mouth

40.0 ppb

Tasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
40.0 ppb SIDA	water_retronasal	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

Other matrix

12.0 ppb – 790 ppb

Measured in a non-aqueous medium (oil, starch, cellulose).

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
12.0 ppb SIDA	wine matrix (12% ethanol) (food: rum / red wine)	Literature corpus	18570373
50.0 ppb SIDA	wine matrix (12% ethanol) (food: rum / red wine)	Literature corpus	18570373
67.0 ppb SIDA	ethanol/water (food: rum / red wine)	Literature corpus	18570373
790 ppb SIDA	ethanol/water (food: rum / red wine)	Literature corpus	18570373

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 whisky lactone. 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 whisky lactone in it.

104 cmpds

196 cmpds

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