Hexyl butyrate

Hexyl butyrate has a characteristic fruity (apricot) odor and a sweet taste suggestive of pineapple. May be synthesized from butyric acid and n-hexyl alcohol in the presence of HCL.

Hexyl Butyrate is a liquid with a powerful fruity odor. It has been identified in a number of fruits and berries and is an important constituent of fruit flavor compositions.

Hexyl butyrate has a characteristic fruity (apricot) odor and sweet taste suggestive of pineapple.

Reported found in the essential oils of lavender and lavandin and in the oil from fruits of Heracleum giganteum. Also reported found in apple, apricot, banana, citrus peel oils, cranberry, guava, grapes, strawberry fruit and jam, thymus, Gruyere cheese, beer, cognac, rum, cider, tea, passion fruit, plum, plumcot, starfruit, mango, mountain papaya, Chinese quince peel and hog plum (Spondias mombins L.)

From butyric acid and n-hexyl alcohol in the presence of HCl

ChEBI: A fatty acid ester obtained by the formal condensation of hexanol with butyric acid.

Detection: 250 ppb

Taste characteristics at 10 ppm: fruity, green, waxy, fatty and vegetative.

Not classified