Excellentia International GINGER OIL PURE & NATURAL
- CAS Number
- 2230756.0
It is an evergreen plant that has long stems up to 1.20 m high. In each stem, narrow and green leaves are disposed in two lines. The underground rhizome looks like a tuber and is digitately branched. It is native to littoral regions of India. Zingiber, its Latin name, comes from the Sanskrit word "shringavera" that means "shaped like a deer's antlers". In traditional Chinese medicine, ginger has been very used. Confucius, around 500 B.C., wrote about it in the Analects. In India, Ayurveda names Ginger as "Universal Medicine" because of his vast practicality in kitchen or medicine. The distillation can be perform of fresh or dried rhizome, being the content of Citral usually lower in dried material. The color of the oil varies depending of the origin, but is mostly pale yellow to yellow. It has a characteristic odor: spicy, peppered and lemony. This organoleptic profile is somewhat superior in the fresh distilled oil, due to its higher aldehyde and alcohols content.
Properties
- Physical Form
- Liquid
Product families
Applications
- Other Food Applications
Product Families
- Flavor Enhancers
- Plant & Herb Products & Extracts
Other characteristics
- Functions
- Flavor Enhancer
- Ingredient Name
- Ginger Oil
- Labeling Claims
- Natural, Naturally Derived
- Natural
- Naturally Derived
- Ingredient Origin
- Natural Origin
- Certifications & Compliance
- FCC Compliant, IFRA Compliant
- Usage
Applications in fragrances, flavors, pharmacy, aromatherapy. It has several activities as analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-emetic, antispasmodic, inmunostimulant, and antioxidant.
- Markets
- Food & Nutrition
- Regulation
- _x007f_Monographs
- ISO 16928:2014, FCC.
- IFRA
- Permitted.
- Cosmetic Allergens
- Limonene, Linalool, Citronellol, Geraniol.
- Safety summary
- Avoid oral use in presence of acute inflammatory because may exacerbate symptoms in those patients
- FEMA Number
- 2522.0
- Ingredient
- Ginger, Ginger Oil
- Main Origins
- China, India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Indonesiat
- Technology
- Food Ingredients
- Botanical Name
- Zingiber officinale Roscoe
- Botanical Family
- Zingiberaceae
- Starting Raw Material
- Rhizomes
- Food Ingredients Features
- Antioxidant Properties
- Food Ingredients Functions
- Flavor Enhancer
- Certifications and Compliance
- FCC Compliant
- IFRA Compliant
- Chemical Profile & Chemotypes
In ginger oil are found some sesquiterpenic alcohols that are seldom present in other oils, such as cis and trans-Sesquisabinene hydrate, and cis and trans-Zingiberenols. However they are present in very few quantities in the distilled oil, and more present in CO2 Extracts. We can also find the major and the most characteristic compound in ginger oil: Alpha-Zingiberene, a sesquiterpene that has a spicy, fresh and sharp odor. This chemical component is responsible of several therapeutic activities such as analgesic, anti-inflammatory and anti-ulcer. The adulteration may be done with come monoterpenes like Pinene or Camphene and with diluents, since with major components of the oil could be difficult due to the non-commercialization of these.
- Food and Nutrition Applications
- Flavors
