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Essential Oils: Properties, Composition, and Health Effects

  • Title: Essential Oils: Properties, Composition, and Health Effects
  • Description:
    Package of 3 journal articles on Essential Oils (19 pages total). Includes:

    1) Essential Oils: Properties, Composition and Health Effects - Reference Module in Food Science, from Encyclopedia of Food and Health, 2016, pp 558-562

    2) Essential Oils: What They Are and How the Terms Are Used and Defined - Essential Oils in Food Preservation, Flavor and Safety, 2016, pp 3-10

    3)  Essential Oils: Isolation, Production and Uses - Reference Module in Food Science, from Encyclopedia of Food and Health, 2016, Pages 552-557

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  • Abstract / Overview:

  • An Historical Overview
    Concept and Definition
    Variability of Essential Oils
    Presence and Functions in the Vegetable Kingdom
    Obtaining Essential Oils
    Control and Analyses
    Chemical Composition
    Use of Essential Oils
    Cosmetics
    Medicine and Pharmaceutics
    Food

    Sources and Production
    Patterns of Consumption
    Availability, Absorption, and Metabolism
    Health Effects
    Antioxidative Properties
    Inhibition of Food Borne Pathogens
    Spasmolytic activities
    Anticancer activities
    Diabetes
    Mood Disorders
    Osteoporosis
    Alzheimer's Disease
    Atherosclerosis

    Isolation of Essential Oils
    Production
    Uses - Pharmaceutical, Animal Feed Supplements, Animal Health

    References