Table 1.
Major constituents of the essential oil from Elettaria cardamomum (L.) Maton as defined by the ISO standard: specifications and batch to batch variation based on the analysis of five batches. The content of each constituent is expressed as the percentage of the area of the corresponding chromatographic peak (% GC area), assuming the sum of chromatographic areas of all detected peaks as 100%
| Constituent | Percentage of oil | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU register name | CAS No | FLAVIS No | Specification GC Area % | Meana | Range |
| Terpineol acetateb | 8007‐35‐0 | 09.830 | 30–42 | 35.05 | 33.75–37.30 |
| 1,8‐Cineole | 470‐82‐6 | 03.001 | 16–35 | 23.31 | 20.44–24.13 |
| Linalyl acetate | 115‐95‐7 | 09.013 | 5–9 | 6.95 | 6.83–7.01 |
| 4(10)‐Thujene (sabinene) | 3387‐41‐5 | 01.059 | 2–6 | 4.21 | 2.99–4.78 |
| Limonene | 5989‐27‐5 | 01.045 | 1–6 | 4.39 | 4.29–4.70 |
| Linalool | 78‐70‐6 | 02.013 | 2–6 | 4.17 | 3.88–4.62 |
| Pin‐2(3)‐ene (α‐pinene) | 80‐56‐8 | 01.004 | 1–3 | 2.50 | 1.93–2.76 |
| Myrcene | 123‐35‐3 | 01.008 | 1–4 | 2.28 | 1.78–2.63 |
| α‐Terpineol | 98‐55‐5 | 02.014 | 1–3 | 2.18 | 1.88–2.35 |
| Terpinen‐4‐ol | 562‐74‐3 | 02.072 | 0.5–2.5 | 1.44 | 1.23–2.03 |
| trans‐Nerolidol | 7212‐44‐4 | 02.018 | 0.5–2 | 1.48 | 1.20–1.56 |
| Total | 88.11 | ||||
CAS no. Chemical Abstracts Service number; FLAVIS number: EU Flavour Information System numbers.
a
Mean calculated on five batches.
b
CAS number in the Register refers to α‐terpinyl acetate (Regulation (EC) No 1334/2008).10