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A revolution in fragrance: Lemon Myrtle – the new citrus

Lemon Myrtle - With a sophisticated aroma and naturally occurring citral, this versatile ingredient offers benefits from antimicrobial to mood enhancement. Read about this fresh, sustainable 'new citrus' capturing hearts worldwide!

HPLC-NMR — a Powerful Tool for the Identification of Non-Volatiles in Lemon Peel Oils

Citrus peel oils are of great importance for the flavor and fragrance industry because they are widely used in perfumes, beverages, food and cosmetic products. Many publications cover the analysis of the volatile substances of peel oils.

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Exploring Citrus Diversity to Create the Next Generation of Citrus Flavors

Citrus is a key tonality for the flavor and fragrance industry. The diversity of citrus is not well understood, allowing room for new, compelling discoveries in tonalities.

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Progress in Essential Oils: Lemon Verbena Oil

This month's column discusses the chemical composition of lemon verbena oil.

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The Meyer Lemon Story

The history, botany and chemical analysis of Meyer lemons.

Citrus focus: Argentina’s Lemon Industry

The history and future growth of citrus in this top lemon-producing country. In the northwest corner of Argentina, in the province of Tucumán, lies an agricultural area that has become the world’s No. 1 producer of lemons and lemon byproducts in the past 30 years.

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Citrus focus: A Cultivated Zest

Known as golden apples centuries ago, lemons were once regarded as luxuries, traded for precious items in marketplaces around the world. Today, with over 3 million tonnes produced each year — the equivalent of approximately 21,000 million individual lemons — this fruit is as popular as it has ever been.

The Citrus Trail

Even within the flavor and fragrance industry itself, there is often a certain amount of confusion surrounding lime and its derivative, lime essential oil.

Stability of Citral-Containing and Citralless Lemon Oils in Flavor Emulsions and Beverages

The storage stability of lemon oil treated to remove citral has not been reported. This investigation was conducted to compare the stabilities of citral-containing and citralless lemon emulsions (EC and ECL) and beverages (BC and BCL) during storage at different temperatures by both gas chromatographic and sensory analyses.

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Lemon Essential Oil: World Production, Extraction Methods and Trading

Looking into the future, it appears not so difficult to predict that worldwide consumption of lemon oil should be showing a further growth rate during the next ten years or so. Whether the industries will be able to supply the growing market in appropriate volumes and accessible prices, is something that remains to be seen.

A New Method of Separation of Citral from Lemongrass Oil

Although many methods are known for the separation of citral from lemongrass (Cymbopogen flexuosus) oil, like fractional distillation, adduct formation and regeneration, the purity and the yield of citral as separated are not satisfactory. A new method for separation of citral in pure form and in near quantitative yield uses the column chromatographic technique. This method may also be adapted for large scale separation of citral and hence can be of commercial importance.

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Taking a Fresh Look at Mint

With its freshness and versatility, mint is increasingly a key ingredient of choice for perfumers and flavorists alike. In this article, Firmenich discusses the global mint market, its versatility in a variety of F&F applications and exploring new compounds through R&D.

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Flavor Bites: Geraniol

The rose character of geraniol is very bright and fragrant but it also possesses considerable depth, which is especially helpful in flavors.

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Organoleptic Characteristics of Flavor Materials April 2018

This month’s column features discussions on cis>-p-menthan-7-ol, 2,6-dimethyl pyrazine natural, cocoa decolorized (PG), whiskey CO2 extract and more.

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Flavor Bites: (E)-2-(3,7-Dimethyl 2,6-octadienyl) cyclopentanone

Overall, this quite complex chemical assumes a surprised resemblance to natural apricots.

Through fermentation, wine emits intricate fragrance accords and flavors that often find similarities with perfume.

Wine & Fragrance

A look at the unique connections and complex notes.

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Endpoint. Defending Nature’s F&F Sources

In some cases, Mother Nature’s materials can be artificially reconstructed. In others—well, as they say, there’s no substitute for the real thing. What happens when natural sources are threatened? Science goes on the defense.

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2016 Flavor & Fragrance Leaderboard

An exclusive look at the top companies' financial reports, sustainability strategies, R&D initiatives, M&A activity and more.

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