Litsea cubeba oil is distilled from the small, pepperlike fruits of the tree of Litsea cubeba. and has an intensely lemon-like, fresh, sweet odour. It competes to a limited extent with lemongrass, another citral-rich oil, in fragrance applications such as
1.Quick Details
CAS No: 68855-99-2
HS Code: 3301295000
BOTANICAL NAME: Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers
Raw Material: Fruit
Color: yellow liquid
Extraction Method: Steam Distilled
INCI Name: LITSEA CUBEBA OIL
Grade: 100% Pure and Nature
Packaging: 50kg net drum
2. Introduction
Litsea cubeba oil is distilled from the small, pepperlike fruits of the tree of Litsea cubeba. and has an intensely lemon-like, fresh, sweet odour. It competes to a limited extent with lemongrass, another citral-rich oil, in fragrance applications such as household sprays and freshenersQ
The essential oil did not become available in the Western world until the early 1950’s, when it began to compete with Lemongrass as a source material for the extraction of citral. Widely used in soaps, fragrances and flavourings, production of the oil is now almost entirely based in China
3. Specifications
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ANALYSIS |
SPECIFICATION |
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Appearance |
Light Yellow to Greenish liquid with the strong aroma of spearmint |
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Assay |
70% |
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Relative density |
0.920-0.937 |
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Refraction index |
1.485-1.491 |
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Optical Rotation |
-45- -60° |
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Heavy Metal |
<20ppm |
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As |
<2ppm |
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Pb |
<2ppm |
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Cd |
<2ppm |
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Residual Solvents GC |
Eur.pharm.2000 |
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Microbiology Total Plate Count Bid purchase Yeast & Mold E.Coli Salmonella |
<1000 cfu/g <100 cfu/g Negative Negative Negative |
4. Application
Litsea Cubeba Oil is widely used in food flavor and fragrance as ingredient，Litsea Cubeba Oil is one of the main materials from which the Citral is seperated and as material to make synthetic perfumery. Litsea Cubeba Berry Oil itself can also be used as agent to flavor varieties of essence for foodstuff, especially the fruit-flavor essence, and soft drink, etc... The refined Litsea Cubeba Berry Oil is often used as modifying agent for Lemon Essence and White Lemon Essence, in order to enhance the freshness of the fruit flavor.
• Used for the synthesis of single-violet from ketones, vitamin A, K and so on.
• Used to decorate lemon, lime flavor, the fruit used to do freshener.
• Used in daily chemical industry.
• Medicinal have expelling wind and cold, qi pain effect
5.Storage:
preserve in tightly sealed,light and oxygen
resistant containers
6. Conditions of Transport
Dangerous goods :UN 1993 3/PG 3 GHS02
,GHS07