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JOURNAL OF ESSENTIAL OIL BEARING PLANTS
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 155-161Publisher
HAR KRISHAN BHALLA & SONS
DOI: 10.1080/0972060X.2009.10643705
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Water-soluble aromatics; Hydrosol; Essential oils; natural flavorings
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Hydrosols are aromatic waters that are produced during the distillation of aromatic plants. In this study the identity and the absolute quantity (mg/liter), of the major water-soluble aromatic components from the hydrosols of seven aromatic plants were investigated. These plants include sweet basil, peppermint, spearmint, sour orange petitgrain, lemongrass, lemon eucalyptus, and clove. Eugenol from clove hydrosol was found to be the most highly soluble component (854 mg/l hydrosol), followed by d-carvone from spearmint hydrosol (242 mg/l) and linalool from both sweet basil (171 mg/l) and petitgrain (128 mg/l) hydrosols. The investigation also revealed that, the solubility of certain aromatic component from different hydrosols is not the same, and probably depends on the chemical composition of its parent essential oil.
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