Category: flavoring agents
US / EU / FDA / JECFA / FEMA / FLAVIS / Scholar / Patent Information:
Physical Properties:
Assay: | 95.00 to 100.00 %
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Food Chemicals Codex Listed: | No |
Specific Gravity: | 1.09200 to 1.10000 @ 20.00 °C.
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Pounds per Gallon - (est).: | 9.097 to 9.164
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Refractive Index: | 1.49000 to 1.49800 @ 20.00 °C.
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Boiling Point: | 246.00 to 247.00 °C. @ 760.00 mm Hg
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Soluble in: |
| water, 4598 mg/L @ 25 °C (est) |
Organoleptic Properties:
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Odor Type: sulfurous |
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| sulfurous meaty roasted meaty meaty |
Odor Description: Used at 0.1-5ppm, to reinforce a roast meat,gravy character in cooked meat flavours. | sulfurous roasted meaty |
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Flavor Type: meaty |
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| meaty meaty roasted meaty |
Taste Description:
| meaty |
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Odor and/or flavor descriptions from others (if found). |
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Cosmetic Information:
Suppliers:
Safety Information:
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Hazards identification |
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Classification of the substance or mixture |
GHS Classification in accordance with 29 CFR 1910 (OSHA HCS) |
None found. |
GHS Label elements, including precautionary statements |
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Pictogram | |
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Hazard statement(s) |
None found. |
Precautionary statement(s) |
None found. |
Oral/Parenteral Toxicity: |
Not determined
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Dermal Toxicity: |
Not determined
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Inhalation Toxicity: |
Not determined
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Safety in Use Information:
Category: | flavoring agents |
Recommendation for 2-methyl-3-thioacetoxytetrahydrofuran usage levels up to: | | not for fragrance use.
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Maximised Survey-derived Daily Intakes (MSDI-EU): | 0.011 (μg/capita/day) |
Modified Theoretical Added Maximum Daily Intake (mTAMDI): | 420 (μg/person/day) |
Threshold of Concern: | 90 (μg/person/day) |
Structure Class: | III |
Use levels for FEMA GRAS flavoring substances on which the FEMA Expert Panel based its judgments that the substances are generally recognized as safe (GRAS). |
The Expert Panel also publishes separate extensive reviews of scientific information on all FEMA GRAS flavoring substances and can be found at FEMA Flavor Ingredient Library |
publication number: 25 |
Click here to view publication 25 |
| average usual ppm | average maximum ppm |
baked goods: | 0.10000 | 0.50000 |
beverages(nonalcoholic): | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
beverages(alcoholic): | 0.02000 | 0.05000 |
breakfast cereal: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
cheese: | 0.10000 | 0.20000 |
chewing gum: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
condiments / relishes: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
confectionery froastings: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
egg products: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
fats / oils: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
fish products: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
frozen dairy: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
fruit ices: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
gelatins / puddings: | 0.02000 | 0.05000 |
granulated sugar: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
gravies: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
hard candy: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
imitation dairy: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
instant coffee / tea: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
jams / jellies: | 0.02000 | 0.05000 |
meat products: | 0.02000 | 0.05000 |
milk products: | 0.01000 | 0.04000 |
nut products: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
other grains: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
poultry: | 0.02000 | 0.05000 |
processed fruits: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
processed vegetables: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
reconstituted vegetables: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
seasonings / flavors: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
snack foods: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
soft candy: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
soups: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
sugar substitutes: | 0.01000 | 0.03000 |
sweet sauces: | 0.02000 | 0.05000 |
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Food categories according to Commission Regulation EC No. 1565/2000 (EC, 2000) in FGE.06 (EFSA, 2002a). According to the Industry the "normal" use is defined as the average of reported usages and "maximum use" is defined as the 95th percentile of reported usages (EFSA, 2002i). |
Note: mg/kg = 0.001/1000 = 0.000001 = 1/1000000 = ppm. |
| average usage mg/kg | maximum usage mg/kg |
Dairy products, excluding products of category 02.0 (01.0): | 0.50000 | 2.50000 |
Fats and oils, and fat emulsions (type water-in-oil) (02.0): | 0.20000 | 1.00000 |
Edible ices, including sherbet and sorbet (03.0): | - | - |
Processed fruit (04.1): | 0.50000 | 2.50000 |
Processed vegetables (incl. mushrooms & fungi, roots & tubers, pulses and legumes), and nuts & seeds (04.2): | - | - |
Confectionery (05.0): | 1.00000 | 5.00000 |
Chewing gum (05.0): | - | - |
Cereals and cereal products, incl. flours & starches from roots & tubers, pulses & legumes, excluding bakery (06.0): | 0.20000 | 1.00000 |
Bakery wares (07.0): | 2.00000 | 10.00000 |
Meat and meat products, including poultry and game (08.0): | 0.20000 | 1.00000 |
Fish and fish products, including molluscs, crustaceans and echinoderms (MCE) (09.0): | 0.20000 | 1.00000 |
Eggs and egg products (10.0): | - | - |
Sweeteners, including honey (11.0): | - | - |
Salts, spices, soups, sauces, salads, protein products, etc. (12.0): | 0.30000 | 1.50000 |
Foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses (13.0): | 0.50000 | 2.50000 |
Non-alcoholic ("soft") beverages, excl. dairy products (14.1): | 0.20000 | 1.00000 |
Alcoholic beverages, incl. alcohol-free and low-alcoholic counterparts (14.2): | 1.00000 | 5.00000 |
Ready-to-eat savouries (15.0): | 2.00000 | 10.00000 |
Composite foods (e.g. casseroles, meat pies, mincemeat) - foods that could not be placed in categories 01.0 - 15.0 (16.0): | 0.40000 | 2.00000 |
Safety References:
References:
Other Information:
Potential Blenders and core components note
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For Odor |
alliaceous |
| dimethyl trisulfide | FL/FR |
| methyl furfuryl disulfide | FL/FR |
| rum ether | FL/FR |
| strawberry furanone | FL/FR |
chocolate |
2,6- | dimethyl pyrazine | FL/FR |
coffee |
| coffee difuran | FL/FR |
| furfuryl mercaptan | FL/FR |
2- | methyl-3-,5 or 6-(furfuryl thio) pyrazine | FL/FR |
| nutty pyrazine | FL/FR |
fermented |
| ethyl crotonate | FL/FR |
fresh |
10- | undecen-1-yl acetate | FL/FR |
fruity |
3- | mercaptohexyl acetate | FL/FR |
(E)-7- | methyl-3-octen-2-one | FL/FR |
| prunus amygdalus amara seed extract | FL/FR |
| tropical thiazole | FL/FR |
| tropical trithiane | FL/FR |
(E)-2- | undecenal | FL/FR |
green |
2- | heptyl furan | FL/FR |
(E,Z)-2,6- | nonadienal | FL/FR |
| meaty dithiane | FL/FR |
4- | methyl nonanoic acid | FL/FR |
| sulfurol | FL/FR |
| sulfuryl acetate | FL/FR |
moldy |
| strawberry furanone methyl ether | FL/FR |
musty |
| hazelnut pyrazine | FL/FR |
2- | ethyl pyrazine | FL/FR |
2- | ethyl-4-methyl thiazole | FL/FR |
| filbert heptenone | FL/FR |
2,6- | lutidine | FL/FR |
2- | methyl-3-(methyl thio) pyrazine | FL/FR |
phenolic |
2,3- | dimethyl benzofuran | FL/FR |
ortho- | guaiacol | FL/FR |
4- | vinyl phenol | FL/FR |
| trigonella foenum-graecum seed oil CO2 extract | FL/FR |
smoky |
2,6- | dimethoxyphenol | FL/FR |
| pyroligneous acids | FL/FR |
| benzothiazole | FL/FR |
| cocoa essence | FL/FR |
| ethyl 2-mercaptopropionate | FL/FR |
| ethyl 3-mercaptobutyrate | FL/FR |
| ethyl 3-mercaptopropionate | FL/FR |
| fish thiol | FL/FR |
| furfuryl thioacetate | FL/FR |
2- | mercaptopropionic acid | FL/FR |
4- | methyl 4-mercaptopentan-2-one 1% solution | FL/FR |
| methyl mercaptan | FL/FR |
2-( | methyl thio) phenol | FL/FR |
1- | phenethyl mercaptan | FL/FR |
tobacco |
| methyl benzoxole | FL/FR |
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For Flavor |
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No flavor group found for these |
4- | acetyl-2-methyl pyrimidine | FL |
| amyl mercaptan | FL |
1,2- | butane dithiol | FL |
2-(2- | butyl)-4,5-dimethyl-3-thiazoline | FL |
2,5- | diethyl thiazole | FL |
| dihydro-2,4,6-trimethyl-1,3,5(4H)-dithiazine | FL |
| dimethyl tetrasulfide | FL |
2,6- | dimethyl-3-((2-methyl-3-furyl)thio)-4-heptanone | FL |
bis(2,5- | dimethyl-3-furyl) disulfide | FL |
(Z+E)-2,5- | dimethyl-3-tetrahydrofuran thiol | FL |
(Z+E)-2,5- | dimethyl-3-thioacetoxytetrahydrofuran | FL |
2,5- | dimethyl-3-thiofuroyl furan | FL |
S- | ethyl 2-acetyl aminoethane thioate | FL |
| ethyl 3-mercaptobutyrate | FL/FR |
| ethyl 3-mercaptopropionate | FL/FR |
2- | ethyl-3-methyl thiopyrazine | FL |
(Z+E)-5- | ethyl-4-methyl-2-(2-butyl) thiazoline | FL |
(Z+E)-5- | ethyl-4-methyl-2-(2-methyl propyl) thiazoline | FL |
2- | hexyl thiophene | FL |
1-(3- | hydroxy-5-methyl-2-thienyl) ethanone | FL |
3- | mercapto-3-methyl butyl formate | FL |
4- | mercapto-3-methyl-2-butanol | FL |
4- | methyl 4-mercaptopentan-2-one 1% solution | FL/FR |
| methyl dihydrofuran thiol | FL |
| methyl methane thiosulfonate | FL |
2- | methyl thiazolidine | FL |
2- | methyl-1-butane thiol | FL |
4- | methyl-2-(methyl thiomethyl)-2-hexenal | FL |
2- | methyl-2-thiazoline | FL |
2- | methyl-3-,5 or 6-(furfuryl thio) pyrazine | FL/FR |
2- | methyl-3-(methyl thio) pyrazine | FL/FR |
3-((2- | methyl-3-furyl)thio)-4-heptanone | FL |
4-((2- | methyl-3-furyl)thio)-5-nonanone | FL |
1,9- | nonane dithiol | FL |
1- | phenethyl mercaptan | FL/FR |
iso | propyl disulfide | FL |
2-iso | propyl-3-(methyl thio) pyrazine | FL |
| thiazole | FL |
3- | thienyl mercaptan | FL |
| thioacetic acid | FL |
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3,5- | diisopropyl-1,2,4-trithiolane | FL |
3,5- | dimethyl-1,2,4-trithiolane | FL |
3,7- | dimethyl-2,6-octadien-1-yl cyclopropyl carboxamide | FL |
2,4- | dimethyl-3-oxazoline | FL |
4- | mercapto-2-pentanone 1% in acetoin | FL |
2- | methyl-1-methyl thio-2-butene | FL |
3- | methyl-1,2,4-trithiane | FL |
| pyrrolidino-(1,2E)-4H-2,4-dimethyl-1,3,5-dithiazine | FL |
1-(2- | thienyl) butanone | FL |
alliaceous |
| allyl disulfide | FL |
| allyl mercaptan | FL |
1,3- | butane dithiol | FL |
| cyclopentyl mercaptan | FL |
| dicyclohexyl disulfide | FL |
| dimethyl trisulfide | FL/FR |
| garlic oil extenders | FL |
3- | mercapto-2-pentanone | FL |
3- | tetrahydrothiophenone | FL |
| tropical thiazole | FL/FR |
bacon |
| bacon reaction crispy | FL |
burnt |
| bacon dithiazine | FL |
1,6- | hexane dithiol | FL |
| rum ether | FL/FR |
caramellic |
| strawberry furanone | FL/FR |
chemical |
2,3- | dimethyl benzofuran | FL/FR |
2,5- | dimethyl furan | FL |
chocolate |
| cocoa essence | FL/FR |
coffee |
| coffee difuran | FL/FR |
2- | ethyl-4-methyl thiazole | FL/FR |
| furfuryl mercaptan | FL/FR |
| methyl furfuryl disulfide | FL/FR |
| methyl furfuryl mercaptopropionate | FL |
| methyl furfuryl thiol | FL |
earthy |
| difurfuryl sulfide | FL |
(±)-2- | mercapto-5-methylheptan-4-one | FL |
1,8- | octane dithiol | FL |
2- | thienyl disulfide | FL |
eggy |
iso | propyl mercaptan | FL |
fatty |
pork | fat extract | FL |
2- | heptyl furan | FL/FR |
4- | methyl nonanoic acid | FL/FR |
(E)-7- | methyl-3-octen-2-one | FL/FR |
2- | pentyl thiophene | FL |
fruity |
2- | ethyl-2,5-dihydro-4-methyl thiazole | FL |
| tropical trithiane | FL/FR |
greasy |
10- | undecen-1-yl acetate | FL/FR |
green |
4- | methyl thiazole | FL |
(E,Z)-2,6- | nonadienal | FL/FR |
4- | penten-1-yl acetate | FL |
meaty |
4- | allyl-2,6-dimethoxyphenol | FL |
| bacon flavor | FL |
| beef broth flavor | FL |
roast | beef flavor | FL |
BBQ | beef flavor | FL |
| beef flavor | FL |
| beef flavor base | FL |
| benzothiazole | FL/FR |
| chicken bone extract | FL |
| chicken extract | FL |
grilled | chicken flavor | FL |
| chicken flavor | FL |
| chicken key | FL |
2,6- | dimethyl pyrazine | FL/FR |
2,6- | dimethyl thiophenol | FL |
2,5- | dimethyl-3-furan thiol | FL |
2',3- | dimethyl-3',4-dioxa-2,8-dithiabicyclo(3.3.0)octane spirocyclopentane | FL |
1,1- | ethane dithiol 1% in ethanol 94.5% / ethyl acetate 4% | FL |
| ethyl 2-hydroxyethyl sulfide | FL |
| furfuryl 2-methyl-3-furyl disulfide | FL |
4- | furfuryl thio-2-pentanone | FL |
| ham enhancers | FL |
| ham flavor | FL |
| hot dog flavor | FL |
| lamb flavor | FL |
| liver flavor | FL |
| meat broth concentrates | FL |
| meat flavors | FL |
| meaty dithiane | FL/FR |
| meaty enhancers | FL |
3- | mercapto-2-butanone | FL |
(R,S)-2- | mercapto-3-butanol | FL |
3- | mercapto-3-methyl butanol | FL |
2- | mercaptomethyl pyrazine | FL |
2- | mercaptopropionic acid | FL/FR |
2- | methyl 3-(methyl thio) furan | FL |
2-( | methyl thio) phenol | FL/FR |
| methyl thiofuryl butanal | FL |
12- | methyl tridecanal | FL |
bis(2- | methyl-3-furyl) disulfide | FL |
S-(2- | methyl-3-furyl) ethane thioate | FL |
2- | methyl-3-tetrahydrofuran thiol | FL |
| phenyl mercaptan | FL |
| pork flavor | FL |
grilled | pork flavor | FL |
roasted | pork flavor | FL |
| propyl 2-mercaptopropionate | FL |
| pyrazinyl ethane thiol | FL |
2- | pyridinyl methane thiol | FL |
| rabbit flavor | FL |
grilled | steak flavor | FL |
| sulfurol | FL/FR |
| sulfuryl acetate | FL/FR |
| thialdine | FL |
ortho- | thiocresol | FL |
ortho- | thioguaiacol | FL |
| turkey flavor | FL |
roast | turkey flavor | FL |
smoked | turkey flavor | FL |
| veal flavor | FL |
| venison flavor | FL |
medicinal |
2,6- | dimethoxyphenol | FL/FR |
metallic |
2,5- | dihydroxy-1,4-dithiane | FL |
moldy |
| strawberry furanone methyl ether | FL/FR |
musty |
| hazelnut pyrazine | FL/FR |
nutty |
3- | acetyl-2,5-dimethyl thiophene | FL |
2- | acetyl-4-methyl thiazole | FL |
3,5- | diethyl-2-methyl pyrazine | FL |
2,5- | diethyl-3-methyl pyrazine | FL |
2- | ethyl pyrazine | FL/FR |
| filbert heptenone | FL/FR |
2,6- | lutidine | FL/FR |
| methyl benzoxole | FL/FR |
| nutty pyrazine | FL/FR |
| nutty thiazole | FL |
| prunus amygdalus amara seed extract | FL/FR |
onion |
| ethyl 2-mercaptopropionate | FL/FR |
| furfuryl isopropyl sulfide | FL |
phenolic |
2- | ethyl benzene thiol | FL |
4- | vinyl phenol | FL/FR |
popcorn |
2- | propionyl-2-thiazoline | FL |
radish |
3-( | methyl thio) propyl mercaptoacetate | FL |
roasted |
3,5- | diisobutyl-1,2,4-trithiolane | FL |
| furfuryl thioacetate | FL/FR |
| hexyl mercaptan | FL |
| trigonella foenum-graecum seed oil CO2 extract | FL/FR |
rummy |
| ethyl crotonate | FL/FR |
savory |
2,4,6- | triethyl tetrahydro-1,3,5-dithiazine | FL |
smoky |
| prosopis juliflora wood extract | FL |
| pyroligneous acids | FL/FR |
spicy |
hot spicy | beef flavor | FL |
sulfurous |
2,3- | butane dithiol | FL |
| butyl mercaptan | FL |
| ethyl methyl sulfide | FL |
S- | ethyl thioacetate | FL |
| fish thiol | FL/FR |
| furfuryl thiopropionate | FL |
| methyl 2-methyl-3-furyl disulfide | FL |
| methyl mercaptan | FL/FR |
3- | methyl-2-butane thiol | FL |
2- | naphthyl mercaptan | FL |
3- | pentane thiol | FL |
| roasted butanol | FL |
tropical |
3- | mercaptohexyl acetate | FL/FR |
vegetable |
| tyramine | FL |
wasabi |
2-( | methyl thio) ethyl acetate | FL |
waxy |
(E)-2- | undecenal | FL/FR |
woody |
ortho- | guaiacol | FL/FR |
yeasty |
| faex extracts | FL |
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Potential Uses:
Occurrence (nature, food, other): note
Synonyms:
2- | methyl tetrahydrofuran-3-thioacetate | 2- | methyl-3-tetrahydrofuran thioacetate | O-(2- | methyloxolan-3-yl) ethanethioate | 2- | methyltetrahydrofuran thioacetate | (±)-2- | methyltetrahydrofuran-3-thiol acetate |
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