Cardamom Oil & Oleoresin - SCFE(Co2) Extract

Cardamom Oil is greenish to brown colored liquid extract from the Queen of Spices. The exotic spice extract with rich aroma & complex sweet flavoring notes is known for the lingering taste it leaves in mouth. Cardamom is also regarded as an important ingredient in Ayurvedic medicines. Green cardamom is one of the most expensive spices and often seen as a festive gifting in India.  Cardamom is widely used for enriching the flavor and aroma in foods, drinks, confectionary and treating ingredient in medicinal preparations. A spice often picked upon after meals for its long lasting freshening and no wonder why it is commonly used ingredient in chewing gums.

The most medicinally active of the cardamom Oleoresin is its antioxidant component cineole. Cardamom mainly consists of 1, 8-cineole along with monoterpenes. It contains α-terpineol, limonene αalpha;-pinene, β-pinene, sabinene,  myrcene, α-terpinyl acetate, linalool. It is the presence of 1, 8-cineole, terpenes  along with linayl acetate that offers unique volatile combination to cardamom.  The volatile oil of Cardaomom mainly constitutes of oxygenated compounds, all which are largely responsible for the characteristic aroma. 

Cardamom oil is popularly used flavoring & aromatic ingredient across industries i.e  savory, desserts, sweets, confectionery, bakery, meat & curries, food preservation, pickles, beverages, mulled wines, biryanis & ready to eat foods. Cardamom is also used as an active ingredient in cough tonics, in digestion tonics, in mouth freshening gums & tablets, as an antidote for poisonous snake & scorpion bites. It is used to treat piles, venereal disease, kidney & bladder stones, skin rashes etc. The Cardamom oil is widely used for its numerous offered therapeutic properties i.e, aphrodisiac, antioxidant, antifungal & antibacterial, antiseptic, carminative, digestive, analgesic, anti-carcinogenic, detoxifier, anti-depressant.

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