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The compounds of the essential oil of seeds of the spice plant Zanthoxylum rhetsa (Rutaceae) which give the seeds their characteristic odour were analysed using GC/FID and GC/MS. Monoterpenes were identified as the main components of this oil. The monoterpene hydrocarbons sabinene, limonene, pinenes, para-cymene and terpinenes, as well as the monoterpene alcohols terpinen-4-ol and alpha-terpineol, are dominating constituents and therefore responsible for the characteristic odour of the seeds of this spice plant from southern India.
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Received: 20 October 1997
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Jirovetz, L., Buchbauer, G., Shafi, M. et al. Analysis of the aroma compounds of the essential oil of seeds of the spice plant Zanthoxylum rhetsa from southern India. Z Lebensm Unters Forsch 206, 228–229 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002170050248
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002170050248