FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2006, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (4): 59-61.

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Study on Distillation, Purification and Identification of Components in Cinnamon Essential Oil

 ZHOU  Feng, JI  Bao-Ping, LI  Bo, LI  Jing-Jing, JIANG  Hui, ZHANG  Hong   

  1. College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
  • Online:2006-04-15 Published:2011-09-13

Abstract:  Cinnamon essential oil was extracted by using steam distillation method, and reacted with saturated sodium hydrogen sulfite solution to isolate the main compounds. According to the GC analysis results, cinnamaldehyde is the main component of the cinnamamon essential oil, the content is 83.03%. And the purity of cinnamaldehyde in the isolated aldehyde oil is over 99%. The isolated aldehyde- and unreacted- oil was analyzed by GC/MS, seven aldehyde components were identified, namely benzaldehyde, benzeneacetaldehyde, hydrocinnamaldehyde, (E)-cinnamaldehyde, cinnamaldehyde, o-methoxy- cinnamaldehyde. The components of the unreacted oil are less than 1% in total.

Key words: cinnamaldehyde, distillation, purification, GC/MS