Pimento berry

Pimento Berry Oil. The pimento or allspice tree, Pimenta dioca L. (syn. P. officinalis, Liadl.), a native of the West Indies and Central America, yields two essential oils of commercial importance pimento berry oil and pimenta leaf oil. The leaf oil finds some use ia perfumery for its resemblance to clove leaf and cinnamon leaf oils as a result of its high content of eugenol. Pimento berry oil is an item of commerce with extensive appHcation by the flavor industry ia food products such as meat sauces, sausages, and pickles, and moderate use ia perfumery, where it is used primarily as a modifier ia the modem spicy types of men s fragrances. The oil is steam-distilled from dried, cmshed, fully grown but unripe fmits. It is a pale yellow Hquid with a warm-spicy, sweet odor with a fresh, clean topnote, a tenacious, sweet-balsamic-spicy body, and a tea-like undertone. A comparative analysis of the headspace volatiles of ripe pimento berries and a commercial oil has been performed and differences are shown ia Table 52 (95). 

Table 52. Comparative Analysis of the Headspace Volatiles of Ripe Pimento Berries and a Commercial Oil ...

Pimento oils (allspice oil) are derived from pimento fruits and leaves. Pimento berry oil is obtained by steam distillation of the dried, fully grown, unripe, berrylike fruits of the pimento shrub, Pimenta dioica (L.) Merrill. (Myrtaceae), growing in the islands of the West Indies and Central America. It is a pale yellow to brown liquid with a spicy odor, reminiscent of eugenol. 

The major components of pimento berry oil are eugenol (up to 75%), 1,8-cineole, and caryophyllene [708 712]. Distillation of the leaves gives an oil that has an even higher content of eugenol (80 90%). Aimual production of leaf oil is ca. 501, which exceeds that of the berry oil. 

D.A. Moyler, CO2 extraction of essential oils Part III. pimento berry, coriander and celery seed oil, In Flavors and off-flavors, Developments in food science 24 (ed. G. Charalambous), Elsevier, Amsterdam, (1990) 263. 

A second charge of crushed pimento berries was extracted sequentially at the same two pressure levels tested for the ginger, 1500 psi and 3000 psi, and the chromatograms of the two extracts are shown in Figures 13 and 14, respectively. The low pressure extract was almost water-white, and the 3000 and 5000 psi extracts were yellow to yellow-green pastes. A comparison of Figures 12,... 

For completeness, Table II gives the gravimetric analysis of the extracts of pimento berries. 

Figure 11. Gas Chromatogram - Methylene Chloride Extract of Pimento Berries.

Table II. Gravimetric Analysis of Pimento Berry Extract...

Test Amount of Pimento Berries Amount of Extract... 

Pimento Berry Oil No, not the little red thing in the middle of an olive. That is just a piece of roasted red bell pepper. What Tmtalking about is something called a pimento berry (which is also commonly known as Allspice). Jamaica is where most of them come from but, alas, Jamaican pimento berries don t have chavicol. But Guatemalan and Mexican berry oils have about 1.2% chavicol [26]. Big whoop ... 

Pimento Oil (Eugenia pimenta DC, a.k.a. Pimenta ojficinalis L., a.k.a. Pimenta dioica) This is what is commonly called Allspice. The little, dried pimento berry looks like black pepper. It is indigenous to the Caribbean and Central America. Table XVII will show you what it s got [44]. 

Pimento Berries, bruised. Boiling Distilled Water. ... 

This is a very simple method to stretch. Clove leaves are easier to harvest and bring similar oil as the stem or bud oil. Clove bud oil is nearly three times higher in price than clove leaf oil. Therewith the concocting of that oil makes sense. Pimento berry oil and leaf oil are closely related in composition. The price of the berry oil is double the leaf oil consequently, adulteration is interesting. By GC-MS method and regarding minor components, this immixture will be detected. Eucalyptus oil from China is derived from Cinnamomum longepaniculatum (Gamble) 1,8-cineole type. Either the whole oil sold as eucalyptus oil or Eucalyptus sp. added is clearly not allowed and must be seen as adulteration. 

Mill.) J.W. Moore (Bay oil). The difference between the oils is the content of eugenol and myr-cenol. Pimento berry oil shows a content of more than 80% of eugenol and traces of myrcene, while bay oil contains maximum 56% of eugenol but up to 30% of myrcene. Eugenol from cinnamon leaf oil is added as adulteration for both oils and myrcene from other sources. Detection is done by GC-MS. 

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Pimento berry (Allspice) Reported CO2 yields Major components Description Odour profile Minimum perceptible Flavour applications Fragrance applications... 

Pimento berry oil Pimenta dioica Fruit SD eugenol, 1,8-cineole, /S-caryophyllene... 

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