Introduction of peppermint oil
Food Grade Peppermint oil
Peppermint oil colorless, light yellow or yellow-green clear essential oil. It has a strong minty stimulating aroma, the taste is first hot, then cool. It is the best quality of mint. Volatile, flammable. Slightly soluble in water, soluble in ethanol, ether, chloroform and various fatty oils.
Natural extract flavor
Method: Peppermint crude oil is obtained by steam distillation from the whole slightly dried plant (water content not more than 55%) or dried leaves of Mentha piperita, a labiform plant, and then the menthol is removed by a single separation. Yield 0.3% ~ 1%(by dry leaves, crude oil yield 1.5% ~ 2%). Mainly produced in the United States, the Soviet Union and Bulgaria, etc., China also has a small amount of cultivation.
Use: China GB2760-86 provisions for the permitted use of edible spices. It is mainly used to prepare water-soluble peppermint flavor (about 10%) and oil-soluble peppermint flavor (up to 38%), or directly added to cool drinks, wine and gum gum, bubble gum (up to 6%)
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Essential oil analysis | peppermint essential oil
Peppermint is also known as peppermint or peppermint
It's a cross between water mint and spearmint
Native to the Mediterranean region
It is now cultivated in Italy, the United States, Japan, Britain and India
Peppermint - Essential oil story
In the case of peppermint, there is an ancient Greek legend that Hades fell in love with a beautiful spirit named Mentha, and the wife of Hades was so angry that she turned Mentha into an unremarkable grass. Although this grass is trampled by people, it continues to emit fragrance, which is mint. It can be seen that people have loved peppermint since ancient times.
Peppermint is an ancient plant. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans used peppermint as a medicinal plant to help digestion. At that time, when people participated in banquets, they would also make a crown of peppermint flowers to wear on their heads, or spread on doilies, and this aroma could prevent guests from feeling dizzy and vomiting after drinking.
In modern times, people in parts of the Middle East will offer a cup of hot mint tea to guests from afar as a consolation for their arduous journey; Morocco is also home to a daily drink of Morocco tea(a tea filled with mint and sugar cubes to refresh and aid digestion), while a bottle of mint leaves is placed in front of some homes in Texas, symbolizing a sincere welcome to the guest.
Plant material: peppermint
CAS: 8006-90-4
Name: Mentha piperita L., Labiidae
INCI registered Ingredient Name:
Peppermint (MENTHA PIPERITA) oil
Main producing area
Mainly produced in the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Bulgaria, Algeria, Japan, China Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Guangxi, Anhui has a small amount of cultivation.
Sensory characteristics
There is a fresh, strong and slightly grassy mint aroma, the bottom rhyme has a cream sweet aroma, cool air can be throughout.
Main component
Menthol, mentholone, menthyl acetate, ethyl propionate, α-amyl alcohol, camphene, limonene, etc.
Preparative extraction method
Peppermint essential oil is extracted from whole peppermint plants harvested from the ground before flowering. The oil yield of fresh or partially dried peppermint was 0.1%~1.0% by steam distillation.
Safety management
FEMA No. 2848, China GB 2760-2014 approved for permissible use as a food flavor.
Main use
Commonly used in toothpaste, candy, alcohol, tobacco, mouthwash. A small amount of peppermint is sometimes used in daily fragrances (for example, in cosmetic emulsifiers) to enhance the aroma. In other areas, such as after shave detergent, mint may be more desirable. It has the effects of dispelling wind, antisepsis, anti-inflammatory and analgesia. Used in tobacco flavor as a taste correcting agent, improve the taste, cover up green impurities, especially used in a large number of cold flavor cigarettes.
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Post time:2024-05-09
