Abstract

VOLATILE COMPONENTS OF ESSENTIAL OILS OF SELECTED PLANTS: COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW

Kalyani Dalvi*, Shrikant Jadhav, Dr. Gajanan Sanap and Vikki Jadhav

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Abstract

Essential oils are secondary metabolites that plants manufacture for defense from pests and predators, attraction of pollinators, and seed diffusion. The oils are created of a combination of compounds that provides a characteristic flavor and odor. Currently, essential oils are receiving nice attention in analysis for his or her phytochemical and antimicrobial activities. However, there's scanty data on the chemical composition of the many plants. This study provides a close analysis of the chemical composition of essential oils of ginger, cinnamon, cardamon and lemon. The essential oils were extracted by steam distillation and analyzed by gas chromatography–mass spectrographic analysis. The study known a complete of fifty-two completely different completely different} chemical categories from the essential oils of the four different plants that were analyzed.

Keywords: Cinnamon, Cardamon, Steam distillation, Phytochemical, Antimicrobial activity.