FEMA | 2793 |
CAS | 8008-45-5 |
EINECS | N/A |
JECFA Food Flavoring | N/A |
CoE Number | N/A |
Organoleptic Notes |
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Odor | spicy spicy, woody, nutmeg, powdery, terpenic, aromatic, pine, old, wood, resinous |
Flavor | spicy spicy, woody, terpenic, aromatic, peppery, nut, skin, resinous, anisic, sweet, nutmeg |
Material Notes | Nutmeg oil is produced by steam distillation or steam and water distillation of freshly comminuted, dried nutmegs. The nutmegs should preferably be free from most of their fixed oil prior to distillation. The fixed oil can be alcohol extracted to yield a small amount of essential oil which has been dissolved in the fixed oil during the expression. tsca definition 2008: extractives and their physically modified derivatives. myristica fragrans, myristicaceae. |