Table 20.

Major constituents of lime essential oil obtained from the fruits of Citrus aurantiifolia (Christm.) Swingle as defined by ISO standard specifications and batch to batch variation based on the analysis of five batches. The content of each constituent is expressed as the area per cent of the corresponding chromatographic peak (% GC area), assuming the sum of chromatographic areas of all detected peaks as 100%

Constituent	CAS no	FLAVIS no	Specification (%)	% of GC area
EU register name				Meana	Range
d‐Limonene	5989‐27‐5	01.045	45–52	37.0	35.7–38.1(b)
γ‐Terpinene	99‐85‐4	01.020	10–14	14.5	13.5–16.9
Terpinolene	589‐62‐9	01.005	5.5–10.5	9.89	9.14–11.2
α‐Terpineol	98‐55‐5	02.014	6–8	9.49	8.16–10.5
β‐Caryophyllene	87‐44‐5	01.007	0.2–0.8	0.44	0.40–0.48
Total				74.8	73.7–76.3

EU: European Union; CAS no. Chemical Abstracts Service number; Flavis number: EU Flavour Information System numbers.

^aMean calculated on five batches. (b) GC‐FID 46.8‐47.4%.