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Essential Oil Details

Essential Name
: .
Plant Name
: Fennel, Saunf
Plant Variety Name
: CIM-sujal
Plant Tissue Name
: Seed

Introduction

Essential oil is used in flavour liquors, vinegars, bread, pasteries, candies. In culinary articles. Used in Indian, folk & Inani system of abortifacient, carminative, cardiotonic, stimulant.

Reference

1. Anonymous 2006. CIM-Sujal; High yielding variety of fennel Foeniculum vulgare (Miller) with better anethol content. CIMAP Newsletter 2: 20.

2. García-Jiménez, Noemí, María José Péerez-Alonso, and Arturo Velasco-Negueruela. "Chemical composition of fennel oil, Foeniculum vulgare Miller, from Spain." Journal of Essential Oil Research 12.2 (2000): 159-162.

3. Stefanini, M. B., et al. "Seed productivity, yield and composition of the essential oil of fennel Foeniculum vulgare var. dulcis in the season of the year." Revista Brasileira de Plantas Medicinais 8 (2006): 86-90.

Major Compound Details

Serial No.Compound Name Compound Percentage(%)
1Trans-Anethole 73.81
2Alpha-Pinene 15.8
3Fenchone 15.8
4Myristicin 14.8
5Beta-Pinene 13.4

Minor Compound Details

Serial No.Compound Name Compound Percentage(%)
1Limonene 5.26
2Exo-Fenchyl Acetate 4.24
3Gamma-Terpinene 3.9
4Methyl Chavicol 2.56
5Myrcene 2.0
6Alpha-Phellandrene 1.0
7Alpha-Bergamotene 0.2
8P-Cymene 0.7
9Alpha-Copaene 0.4
10Bornyl Acetate 0.2
11Delta-Cadinene 0.2
12Elemicine 0.3
13Eugenol 0.2
14Methyl Eugenol 0.6

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