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CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THREE CARDAMOM OILS (ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM) BY GCMS
Ms. Esha Anand Tambe* and Sulekha Gotmare
ABSTRACT Cardamom is considered as “Queen of spices” amongst all the spices known. Cardamom which belongs to Zingiberaceae family is known to be one of the World‟s ancient and expensive spice. Cardamom consists of many therapeutic benefits such as antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-mutagenic, etc. In this study, cardamom oil is extracted by hydrodistillation from cardamom pods in whole (neat) as well as powdered form. The oil, thus extracted, is analysed on GC-MS and the data is compared with market cardamom oil. Cardamom oil contains 1,8-cineole and α-terpinyl acetate. Keywords: 1,8-cineole, antimicrobial, hydrodistillation, anti-mutagenic. [Download Article] [Download Certifiate] |