Potassium acetate is a white crystalline salt with essentially no odor. It is not a fragrance material and has no meaningful olfactory profile; any faint smell is a slight acetic/vinegar trace from residual acetic acid.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1154.
Colorless crystals, hygroscopic and deliquescent.
65% soluble in water, 35% soluble in alcohol, insoluble in most oils.
Odorless when pure. The aqueous solution has an alkaline taste.
This salt is not classified as a flavor material, but as a food additive. It is occasionally used in carbonated beverages, mainly the type known in the U.S.A. as 'Club Soda', in other countries called 'Mineral water' or 'White Soda'.