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Current and Potential Use of Citrus Essential Oils

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Since the Middle Ages, citrus essential oils (EOs) have been widely used for their bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, antiparasitical, insecticidal, medicinal and cosmetic proprieties. Also nowadays, they find important applications in pharmaceutical, sanitary, cosmetic, agricultural and food industries. The best method to extract EOs from citrus plant tissue is steam distillation because of a variety of extracted volatile molecules such as terpenes and terpenoids, phenol-derived aromatic components and aliphatic components. In vitro physicochemical assays classify most of them as antioxidants. Keywords: Peel oils, Neroli oils, Petitgrain, Application of EOs, Taxonomical markers, Antimicrobial activity.

Source: Current Organic Chemistry

DOI: 10.2174/13852728113179990122

Authors: Eristanna Palazzolo, Vito Armando Laudicina, Maria Antonietta Germanà

Institution: University of Palermo

Language: English

Topic: Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity

Subfield: Food Science

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2316061717

FWCI: 2.638

Cites: 73

Cited by: 201

Related to: 10