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CAS | 76-78-8 |
EINECS | 200-985-9 |
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Material Notes | Bitter constit. of Quassia amara (Surinam quassia) and Picrasma excelsa (Jamaican quassiawood) Quassin is a white bitter, crystalline substance extracted from the quassia tree. It is the bitterest substance found in nature with a bitter threshold of 0.08ppm and it is 50 times more bitter than quinine. |