Essential oil quality of chamomile grown in Province of Vojvodina | Kvalitet etarskog ulja kamilice gajene u Vojvodini
2021
Aćimović, Milica | Stanković Jeremić, Jovana | Simić, Katarina | Ivanović, Stefan | Ljujić, Jovana | Čabarkapa, Ivana | Radojčin, Milivoj | Todosijević, Marina | Cveković, Mirjana
Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla L., Asteraceae) is one of the most popular medicinal plants used as a herb infusion for treating numerous ailments, including sleep disorders, anxiety, digestion and intestinal conditions etc. Chamomile essential oil is used in a wide variety of consumer goods such as detergents, soaps, toiletries, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, perfumes, confectionery food products, soft drinks, distilled alcoholic beverages (hard liquor) and as insecticide. According to the European Pharmacopoeia, there are two types of essential oils, one rich in bisabolol oxides and the other in α-bisabolol, which are preferred for tea brewing because of its sweet, grassy, and slightly fruity aroma. From the other side, varieties rich in chamazulene and β-farnesene have bitter taste, and because of that they are low valuable raw material. According to the results of the essential oil composition obtained from three different chamomile samples grown in Province of Vojvodina, it could be concluded that domestic cultivars “Banatska” and “Tetraploidna” contains β-farnesene as dominant compound, while the content of bisabolol oxides and α-bisabolol was lower than required standards in European Pharmacopoeia. Because of that they could not be classified as quality raw material. The German cultivar “Mabamille” grown in agroecological conditions of Vojvodina region, with 37.5% of α-bisabolol can be classified as a bisabolol rich type, and as high quality row material.
Show more [+] Less [-]AGROVOC Keywords
Bibliographic information
Publisher Poljoprivredni fakultet, Novi Sad (Srbija) | Faculty of Agriculture, Novi Sad (Serbia)
ISSN 0546-8264This bibliographic record has been provided by Matica Srpska Library