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Pink Pepper Fruit and Leaf Oils

This month's column discusses the chemical composition of pink pepper fruit and leaf oils.

F&F Bookshelf: Terpenes

P&Fnow reviews Eberhard Breitmaier's book, Terpenes (Wiley)

Part 1 of 2: Understanding terpenes and the reported health benefits.

Using Terpenes to Make Flavors with Health Halos

Part 1 of 2: Understanding terpenes and the reported health benefits.

Part 2 of 2: Exploring terpenes and mood alteration, selection of terpenes and ideas on how to assemble your flavor.

Using Terpenes to Make Flavors with Health Halos

Part 2 of 2: Exploring terpenes and mood alteration, selection of terpenes and ideas on how to assemble your flavor.

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Authentication of Natural Peppermint Oil

This article explores the application of carbon-14 testing as a method to authenticate naturally sourced peppermint oil and screen for adulteration.

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There’s Chemistry in Them Chili Peppers!

This article describes the chemistry behind the flavor, aroma, and pungency of chili peppers to assist in flavor creation.

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Comparative Analysis of Historical Peppermint Oil from Bulgaria and a Commercial Oil of North American Origin

Chemical composition, olfactory analysis and antibacterial activity

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Progress in Essential Oils: Celery Seed and Leaf Oils

This month's column discusses the chemical compositions of celery seed leaf and oil.

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Patent Pick: Black Liquor Flavor

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's edition, just in time for Halloween, highlights a method to prepare a black liquor flavor component.

Pattern Recognition Methods for Discrimination of Essential Oils (Rose Oils) by Their Gas Chromatograms

It is possible to distinguish between essential oils of the same type and their mixtures by analysing their gas chromatograms using a pattern recognition method.

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Patent Pick: New 'Blackred XX' Variety

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's invention is a apricot and plum variety with an excellent fruit flavor.

photo credit: www.qsbg.org

Patent Pick: Black Ginger Extract

Patent Picks are chosen by the editors from publicly available sources. Today's pick relates to fat or oil from black ginger and a method for producing it.

Essential Oils & REACH

The European Council has adopted the new European chemicals policy -- REACH (the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) -- on December 18, 2006.

Progress in Essential Oils

Sage oil and Wild African Sage Oil.

Essential Oils REACH Update

The European Federation of Essential Oils (EFEO) has released its latest Circular Letter (22), providing updates on REACH and declarations of allergens in food products.

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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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Progress in Essential Oils: Cubeb Oil

This month's column discusses the chemical composition of cubeb oil derived from Piper cubeba L.

Investigating New Essential Oils: Rationale, Results and Limitations

Research in new essential oils may provide benefits (missing aroma notes, new sources of isolates, new chiral compounds), but it must reassert its originality and vigor and it must recognize the constraints of economics and regulations.

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