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Journal article
Backhousia citriodora F. Muell. (Lemon Myrtle), an Unrivalled Source of Citral
Foods, Vol.10(7), pp.1-13
09/07/2021
PMCID: PMC8305781
PMID: 34359465
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Abstract
Lemon oils are amongst the highest volume and most frequently traded of the flavor and fragrance essential oils. Citronellal and citral are considered the key components responsible for the lemon note with citral (neral + geranial) preferred. Of the myriad of sources of citral, the Australian myrtaceous tree, Lemon Myrtle, Backhousia citriodora F. Muell. (Myrtaceae), is considered superior. This review examines the history, the natural occurrence, the cultivation, the taxonomy, the chemistry, the biological activity, the toxicology, the standardisation and the commercialisation of Backhousia citriodora especially in relation to its essential oil.
Details
- Title
- Backhousia citriodora F. Muell. (Lemon Myrtle), an Unrivalled Source of Citral
- Creators
- Ian Southwell - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Foods, Vol.10(7), pp.1-13
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Identifiers
- 991012961499702368
- Copyright
- © 2021 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; School of Environment, Science and Engineering; Science; Southern Cross Plant Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article