Glucose pentaacetate is essentially odorless in isolation — a crystalline sugar-ester used primarily as a delayed-release fixative and solid carrier rather than for its own scent. Any perceptible note is a very faint sweet-waxy acetate hint on warming.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Needlelike crystals, white or colorless.
0.159%, soluble in water. About 1.2% soluble in alcohol. Almost insoluble in oils.
Virtually odorless, pronounced bitter taste.
Glucose-penta-acetate is used as a bitter principle in food products, mainly spice blends, condiments, alcoholic beverages, etc. The concentration used is equivalent to about 100 to 1500 ppm in the finished consumer product.
Produced from dextro-Glucose by Acetylation.