Sweet Orange Essential Oil

Sweet Orange

Sweet Orange Adulteration Cold pressed sweet orange essential oil has a limonene content of about 95%, but the 10-fold oil has 80% and the 25-fold oil only 57%. In fact, limonene can decrease to 0.2% on total deterpenation, this raises other components to very high levels e.g. linalool becomes 28% and decanal 17%. This indicates that there are a wide range of possibe orange oils produced. Numerous ways of adulterating orange essential oil persist: mixing with citrus oil terpenes, distilled bitter orange and othe citrus oils or addition of synthetic limonene to sweet orange oil is frequent, Terpeneless and concentrated bitter and sweet orange oils are blended in as well as distilled orange oil etc.. Antioxidants like BHT and BHA are frequently added to prevent oxidation and increase the shelf life. Sweet orange oil is often used as a substitute for Bergamot oil. GRAS Orange Sweet oil has GRAS status Uses Dried orange peel is included in most pharacopoeias. Citrus aurantium was the most commonly used plant by Puerto Ricans. The maladies for which it was used included sleep disorders, gastro-intestinal disorders, respiratoru ailments and raised blood pressure (37).

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