xylic acid

Found in 2 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Properties

Odor description: faint, phenolic, acidic
CAS number: 124-17-4

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 4130
GRAS publication: GRAS 22
FEMA primary name: cis- and trans-2-Heptylcyclopropanecarboxylic acid

Reported use levels (ppm by food category)

Typical vs maximum reported addition levels in finished food. Use as a regulatory ceiling reference — verify against the current GRAS publication for your product category.

Food category	Typical (ppm)	Maximum (ppm)
baked goods	0.01	0.03
beverages (alcoholic)	0.003	0.01
beverages (nonalcoholic)	0.003	0.01
breakfast cereal	0.003	0.02
cheese	0.01	0.03
chewing gum	0.005	0.02
confectionery frostings	0.005	0.015
fish products	0.005	0.02
frozen dairy	0.005	0.02
fruit ices	0.005	0.015
gelatins/ puddings	0.003	0.015
gravies	0.005	0.02
hard candy	0.1	0.03
imitation dairy	0.003	0.015
jams/jellies	0.003	0.015
meat products	0.01	0.03
milk products	0.003	0.015
nut products	0.005	0.02
poultry	0.01	0.03
seasonings/ flavors	0.01	0.03
snack foods	0.01	0.03
soft candy	0.005	0.02
soups	0.003	0.02
sweet sauces	0.003	0.015

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. 3 related FEMA records for this name — verify the exact substance for regulatory use.

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.

fatty, chemical FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree

chemical, fatty FlavorDB 2.0

faint, phenolic, acidic shown above Llm Adjudicated

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chemical Flavordb Odor Column

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fatty Flavordb Odor Column

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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.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain xylic 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 xylic acid in it.

268 cmpds

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