A juicy, ripe fruity ester with a distinctive pineapple-apple character and a soft winey, brandy-like nuance. Fresh and diffusive on top, quickly fading to a light sweet fruitiness typical of short-chain fatty acid ethyl esters.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.
| Ingredient | % | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Pineapple Supreme | — | 1–5% |
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 482.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in oils and alcohol. Poorly soluble in propylene glycol, insoluble in glycerin.
Powerful, diffusive, fruity-winey odor, suggestive of apple, banana, pineapple, with a slightly floral undertone.
It finds some use in flavor compositions for imitation apple, pear, banana, cognac, brandy, grape, pineapple, strawberry, etc.
It finds some use in perfumery in the creation of modern fruity-floral topnotes, and it has often been used in connection with aliphatic aldehydes in mossy fragrance types.
Its comparatively powerful effect in flavors puts the limit of concentration to about 7 to 30 ppm calculated on the finished product, highest in chewing gum, lowest in soft drinks.
Produced by direct esterification of ethanol with caproic acid.
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