1-Penten-3-ol is a colorless to pale yellow liquid with a powerful,
mild grassy-green odor. 1-Penten-3-ol can be extracted from soya
(Glycine max), banana, orange juice or peel oil, raspberries,
asparagus, shallot, crispbread, smoked fatty fish, scallops, roasted
peanut, black and green tea (Thea sinensis) and other foods.
1-Penten-3-ol is used as a nature identical flavor and fragrance
agent. It can be used to add cucumber, melon, berry, horseradish,
strawberry, and tomato flavor to foods and beverages.
Reported found in over 100 foods and beverages including orange; strawberry, banana, orange peel oil, raspberry,
raw asparagus, shallot, crispbread, smoked fatty fish, red wine, black tea, partially fermented tea, green tea, roasted peanut,
soybean, scallop, tomato, apricot, tangerine juice, bilberry, other berries, guava, melon, papaya, cabbage, kohlrabi, peas, cooked
potato, ginger, tomato, spearmint oil, Scotch spearmint oil, mustard, wheat and rye bread, parmesan cheese, boiled egg, cooked fish,
fish oil, roasted chicken, cooked beef, pork fat, hop oil, beer, olive, beans, mango, starfruit, dill herb, lovage leaf, laurel, malt, kiwifruit,
endive, shrimp, oyster, nectarine, okra, clam, cape gooseberry and maté.
