Cardamom Essential Oil
Cardamon is a perennial, reed-like herb up to 4m high, with long, silk blade-shaped leaves. Its long sheathing sterns bear small yellowish flowers with purple tips, followed by oblong red-brown seeds. Essential oil by steam distillation from the dried ripe fruit (seeds). An oleoresin is also produced in small quantities. Native to tropical Asia, especially southern India; cultivated extensively in India, Sri Lanka, Laos, Guatemala and El Salvador. The essential oil is produced principally in India, Europe, Sri Lanka and Guatemala.
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| GRAS Status: | Cardamom essental oil has GRAS status.(49) |
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| Toxicity: | LD50 - (oral) rat >g/kg; (dermal) rabbit >g/kg.
Irritation/Sensitisation - not known
Phototoxicity - Nil reported |
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