Table 2.

Selected constituents of the essential oil from the fruit of Cuminum cyminum L. as defined based on ISO standard (9301:2003): specifications and batch to batch variation based on the analysis of seven 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	% GC area
EU register name			Specification	Mean	Range
Cuminaldehyde (4‐isopropylbenzaldehyde)	122‐03‐2	05.022	14–56	32.3	29.8–34.3
γ‐Terpinene	99‐85‐4	01.020	13–32	20.0	15.9–22.7
β‐Pinene (pin‐2(10)‐ene)	127‐91‐3	01.003	7–20	11.2	10.2–12.7
α‐Pinene (pin‐2(3)‐ene)	80‐56‐8	01.004	0.3–2.0	0.88	0.67–1.07
Total				64.4	57.9–67.7

EU: European Union; CAS No: Chemical Abstracts Service number; FLAVIS No: EU Flavour Information System numbers.