PubChem CID · CC0
/ COMPOUND
methyl benzoate
PubChem CID 7150Formula C8H8O2MW 136.1560 food sources
Odor — measured
Measured odor descriptors · sourced from olfactory literature
sweetmeasuredalmondmeasuredfloralmeasuredfruitymeasuredcanangameasuredphenolicmeasuredodor_activemeasuredwintergreenmeasured
Taste — measured
Measured taste class · sourced from taste-chemistry databases
sweetmeasured
Bioactivity signal
Structure-activity model estimate · not measured
64%
predicted bioactivity probability
medium confidencelow structural similarity to training set
Receptor binding
Measured in literature · peer-reviewed · how this compound interacts with biological receptors
hOR2W1_D296Nolfactory (smell)agonistKd 238640 nMM2OR
hOR2W1olfactory (smell)agonistKd 260459.99999999997 nMM2OR
hOR2M4olfactory (smell)agonistM2OR
hOR1C1olfactory (smell)agonistM2OR
hOR2T34olfactory (smell)agonistM2OR
hOR2T11_C119R_Q309Rolfactory (smell)agonist
Biochemical reactions
Metabolic reactions from RHEA (EMBL-EBI/SIB) · peer-reviewed
benzoate + S-adenosyl-L-methionine = methyl benzoate + S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine
Foods containing this compound
Source
Compound data linked to PubChem CID 7150, public domain via NCBI. Culinary context + ingredient mappings are maintained by Foodgeist's enrichment fleet and continuously re-matched by the pairings engine. PubChem CID 7150
