Occurrence
Reported found among the volatile components of roasted peanuts; also in cranberry, mango, bilberry, rum,
cocoa, coffee, tea, roasted filberts, roasted peanuts, potato chips, lingonberry, strawberry fruit and jam, tomato, wheat bread, parmesan
cheese, yogurt, fatty fish, passion fruit, beans, mango, tamarind, rice, Bourbon vanilla, endive, shrimp, katsubushi and buckwheat.
General Description
3-Penten-2-one is volatile compound present in berry fruit of two
Aronia melanocarpa genotypes. Urinary 3-penten-2-one is a useful biomarker for increased accumulation of acetaldehyde during abnormal metabolic stress.