CNAromatic Plants and Essential Oils
In the dream of Red Mansions, the grand View garden heng Wuyuan, different grass flourish, unique fragrance, for many people left a deep impression of vanilla literature.
In fact, vanilla is pretty close to home. It's a name for a variety of fragrant plants used in the food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Vanilla "fang name" outside, actually, balmy herb is only one part in balmy plant.
Aromatic plants can refers to the essential oils extracted from plants in some organs or naphtha or contain spices and hard to volatilize the floorboard of the gum and other kind of plants, including all spices plants, medicinal plants, part of the garden plants (aromatic vegetables, fruit trees and ornamental plants) and some is not being the development and utilization of wild plants. There are about three thousand and six hunred species of aromatic plants in the world, of which more than four hundred are effectively exploited and about one hundred and fifty are traded, mainly in rutaceae, lauraceae, labiaceae, compositae, umbelliferae and Cruciferae. Aromatic plants are mainly distributed in the Mediterranean region, and there are medicinal and vanilla germplasm banks (MAP) in Europe and America. At present, the vast majority of aromatic plants are in the wild state that has not been exploited and utilized worldwide.
Aromatic plants are both medicinal plants and aromatic plants have the common properties of plant groups. Aromatic plants in addition to its medicinal value, it also contains aroma components, and the composition can be used as an essential oil was extracted, aromatic volatile oils, has antibacterial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antiviral function, not only can drive the flies, beautify the environment, purify air, beautification bedroom, also widely used in cosmetic, bath, diet and health. The essential oil is an important part of natural essence, due to the natural flavor with synthetic spices, irreplaceable, unique like nuances, still contain is not yet clarified, has a special contribution of trace elements on the aroma, and there is no side effects, mostly as a result, production of natural flavor remains popular.
Chinese incense culture has a long history and has accumulated a lot of technical experience in the production and utilization of spices. Since ancient times, the main ingredients of perfumed cosmetics come from natural spice plants, and now some cosmetic ingredients often use the extracts of fragrant plants as raw materials. The pharmacological effects of aromatic plants have long been known. Aromatic plants contain a large number of volatile essential oil components and non-volatile alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids, flavonoids, phenolic acids and so on, these components as active substances in antibacterial, antioxidant, sterilization, anti-inflammatory, antiviral and other aspects have played an important role. China's aromatic plant resources are very rich, which is considered to be "everywhere of gold, everywhere of spices" in the world occupies an important position in related fields. In China, more than four hundred kinds of fragrant plants of more than sixty families have been discovered, among which more than one hundred and twenty kinds of natural fragrant plants have been mass-produced. There are more than sixty kinds of natural spices exported to the international market all the year round, and the resources are distributed all over the country, among which some provinces and regions have become important cultivation bases of aromatic plants.
In Europe, The United States, Japan and other developed countries, natural spices are in each field with an irresistible trend to replace artificial synthetic spices in the round. At the same time, modern scientific research has found that in addition to many medicinal ingredients and aroma components, it also contains antioxidant substances, antibacterial substances and natural pigments, which means that aromatic plants can not only replace chemical synthetic spices, It also means that many of the most widely used synthetic antioxidants, antibacterial substances and chemical dyes will be replaced by aromatic plants in the near future.
With the development of society, people's living standards are constantly improving. In the world, the consumption of natural spices is also increasing, facing international competition, which is also a new opportunity for China's spice processing industry.