CA1285175C - Essential oils treated to remove harsh notes therefrom-ii - Google Patents

Essential oils treated to remove harsh notes therefrom-ii

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CA1285175C
CA1285175C CA000507493A CA507493A CA1285175C CA 1285175 C CA1285175 C CA 1285175C CA 000507493 A CA000507493 A CA 000507493A CA 507493 A CA507493 A CA 507493A CA 1285175 C CA1285175 C CA 1285175C
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Mamoun M. Hussein
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Intercontinental Great Brands LLC
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C11ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
    • C11BPRODUCING, e.g. BY PRESSING RAW MATERIALS OR BY EXTRACTION FROM WASTE MATERIALS, REFINING OR PRESERVING FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES, e.g. LANOLIN, FATTY OILS OR WAXES; ESSENTIAL OILS; PERFUMES
    • C11B9/00Essential oils; Perfumes
    • C11B9/02Recovery or refining of essential oils from raw materials
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Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

Essential oils extracted from botanical material are treated with a peroxide-acid reagent to remove harsh flavor off-notes therefrom.

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35~L75 ESSENTIAL OILS TREATED TO
REMOVE HARSH NOTES THEREFROM

The present invention relates to essential oils extracted from botanical matter which are treated with a peroxide-acid reagent to remove harsh flavor notes therefrom.
Essential oils which are freshly distilled from botanical matter usually have, when freshly made, what are known as harsh tasting flavor notes. These harsh flavor off-notes are also known as green, burnt, still off-notes.
This is particularly true in the case of peppermint oil or spearmint oil which is freshly made by means of steam distillation of the parent botanical matter from which the oil is extracted. The customary procedure employed for removing those harsh flavor notes which are present in the freshly obtained oil is to allow the oil to age or mellow for periods of about 6 to 24 months, in full containers in the presence of oxygen and in the absence of actinic radiation.
This aging-mellowing process is economically unattractive since it requires the use of carefully monitored storage facilities, for long periods of time and supervised by technically trained personnel. All of these storage requirements are economically burdensome.
It has now been found according to the present invention that essential oils freshly extracted from botanical matter which then contain harsh flavor off-notes can be readily freed of such harsh flavor off-notes by treating the oil with a peroxide-acid reagent.
The peroxide-acid reagent which is used to treat the essential oils in accordance with the present invention is a combination of one or more water soluble inorganic peroxides such as hydrogen peroxide and/or ozone and one or ~k - 3L285~'7S

1 more water soluble inorganic acids such as hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid. The peroxide is the active agent in the reagent system of the present invention.
The acid is merely used to acidify the peroxide.
The peroxides and the acids are preferably employed as aqueous solutions having a peroxide or acid concentration of about 30 to 40 weight percent Aqueous solutions of the peroxides and/or acids having higher or lower concentrations may also be used.
The peroxide and acid components of the reagent are added together to the oil to be treated therewith, as disclosed below.
The essential oils which are to be treated with the peroxide-acid reagent in accordance with the present invention are the freshly extracted essential oils of botanical matter. These oils are used as flavorants in the food, confectionary, perfume and cosmetic industries. These oils would include those obtained from the following botanical materials: anise, basil, dill weed, chamomile, 20 eucalyptus, fennel, geranium, hop, laurel leaf, lemongrass, -bois de rose, caraway, amber, camphor, amyris, galbanum, davana, mentha (spearmint and peppermint).
The essential oils which are to be treated with the peroxide-acid reagent in accordance with the present invention may be extracted from their parent botanical matter, i.e., leaves, fruit, bark, root, grass, wood, heartwood, gum, balsam, berries, seed, flowers, twigs and buds, by the commonly employed technique for doing so, i.e., steam distillation.
U.S. 4,478,864 discloses the treatment of freshly prepared peppermint oil with maleic anhydride for the purposes of preventing the formation of certain off flavor ~. . . .

~L~85175 1 notes during the aging process. This process removes most of the menthofuran from the fresh peppermint oil, in the form of a menthofuran-maleic anhydride complex. Thus, very little menthofuran is present, during the aging process, to oxidize to produce undesirable flavor notes. This process, however, does not cure all the off-flavor note problems inherent in fresh peppermint oil. An essential oil treated by the process of U.S. 4,478,864 may still have to undergo an aging process to remove off-flavor notes that are present in the freshly prepared oil.
Prior to all of the present inventors work, therefor, it has not been possible to treat freshly made essential oils in a facile manner so as to readily remove therefrom harsh flavor off~notes then present therein with a reagent that can be readily removed from the oil.
The present invention relates to an essential oil of botanical material treated with an acidified peroxide and/or ozone to remove harsh flavor off-notes therefrom. The present invention also relates to a process for removing harsh flavor off-notes from the essential oil of a botanical material which comprises treating said oil with an acidified peroxide and/or ozone.
The fresh oil may be rectified (redistilled) prior to or after treatment with the peroxide-acid reagent to improve a particular property characteristic. For example, peppermint oil may be rectified to remove dimethyl sulfide therefrom which provides a green weedy note.
The harsh flavor off-notes in the fresh essential oils, which are to be removed by treatment with the peroxide-acid reagent, may be characterized, as such, organoleptically. Organoleptically these harsh off-flavor notes may be characterized as: harsh, green, raw, weedy, skunky and burnt.

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The chemical components of the fresh essential oils 1 which are believed responsible for the harsh (tasting) flavor off-notes have not been determined analytically. They are present, at most, at trace concentrations in the oil. When the essential oils are analyzed by gas chromatography prior to and after the treatment of the present invention, no apparent changes in the composition of the volatile components of the oil can be detected (analytically).
By volatile components it is meant those components of the oil which are volatile enough as to be capable of being detected by gas chromatography analysis using a Carbowax-20M column operated at a maximum temperature of 230C and with an in~ector temperature of a maximum of 250C.
In treating the essential oil with the peroxide-acid reagent according to the present invention the oil may be extracted in a liquid/liquid extraction with the peroxide-acid reagent, or it may be contacted with the peroxide-acid reagent immobilized on a solid support.
About 0.005 to 2.0, and preferably about 0.01 to 0.03, percent by volume of each of the peroxide and the acid components of the reagent of the present invention is used in treating the oil therewith, when using the peroxides and acids as 30 to 40% by weight aqueous solutions.
The peroxide and acid components are added to the oil, for the purposes of conducting the treatment therewith Of the present invention, by adding such components together.
The acid is used to form an acidified peroxide.
The treatment with the peroxide-acid reagent may be conducted at room temperature, of about 20-25C, although at higher temperatures a more rapid/efficient extraction may be 3 effected. The liquid/liquid e*traction may be done by vigorously shaking a mixture of the oil and the peroxide-acid ::I X~35175 l reagent in commonly employed shaking devices designed to effect efficient liquid/liquid extraction systems. Depending on the amount of peroxide-acid reagent used, the size of the oil sample being extracted, and the amount of harsh flavor off-notes initially present in such sample, and the shaking device employed, the extraction time required may be about one to ten minutes.
Only one treatment of the oil with the peroxide-acid reagent is needed in order to adequately accomplish the removal of the harsh flavor off-notes. With such a treatment all of the harsh flavor notes are readily removed.
After the aqueous peroxide-acid reagent is used to treat the essential oil in the liquid/liquid extraction process, it is readily moved therefrom by the use of oil/water separating devices such as a separatory funnel, with or without prior centrifuging. Residual traces of the peroxide-acid reagent can be further readily extracted from the oil by treatment with a solution of Na2C03 (to neutralize the acid) followed by washing with distilled water. The oil is then dried by high speed centrifugation.
Contrary to the teachings of U.S. 4,478,864, whereby the agent which would cause the creation of the off ~lavor note (upon aging in the oil) is actually removed from the fresh oil as a menthofuran-maleic anhydride complex, the agent(s) which are causing the off-flavor notes in the fresh oil, and which are treated with the peroxide-acid reagent according to the present invention, are not removed from the fresh oil by such treatment. The peroxide-acid reagent presumably oxidizes the agents causing the off-flavor no-tes in such a way as to then render them innocuous from an L7~i off-flavor point of view. Thus, it is not necessary to 1 further age the fresh oil, as is otherwise commonly done, to accomplish the same result.
The treatment of the fresh essential oil with the pero~ide-acid reagent can be accomplished before or after any treatment of the oil according to the process of U.S.
4,478,864.
The various types of products into which the essential oils of the present invention may be added as flavors or fragrances would include food, confectionary, including chewing gum and pressed mints, perfumes, cosmetic and body hygiene products and medicinals.
The following examples are merely illustrative of the scope of the present invention and are not intended as a limitation upon the scope thereof.

3o S~L~5 1 Exam~le l A 100 ml sample of freshly distilled peppermint oil is shaken, in a 250 ml separatory funnel, with 0.02 grams each of 30% by weight aqueous H2O2 and 12 N HCl for 1 to 2 minutes. The aqueous (bottom) layer is discarded after complete separation of the layers. The peppermint oil layer is washed by extraction with 2 x 50 ml 5% sodium carbonate solution and 2 x 50 ml distilled water, and the completely separated aqueous layer is then cliscarded. The oil i~ dried with ~ g anhydrous sodium sulfate and by centrifugation at 2000 to 3000 rpm.
The resulting oil is crystal clear and possesses a clean characteristic mellow aroma of a good quality aged peppermint oil. The harsh objectionable aroma of the starting oil is eliminated. The taste of the treated oil, when evaluated in a sugar fondant at 0.2 weight percent level and in a chewing gum at about a 0.5 to 1.5 weight percent level, is similarly improved from that of the starting oil.
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. !' ~ ~8~75 1 Example 2 A sample of freshly distilled spearmint oil is also treated according to the procedure of F.xample 1. A similar improvement of the treated oil is noted.
The magnitude of improvement in a treated oil depends on the quality of the starting oil; the more objectionable and the harsher the starting oil is, the more dramatic is the improvement obtained by the treatment thereo~
according to the present invention.

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Claims (15)

1. An essential oil of botanical material treated with an acidified peroxide and/or ozone to remove harsh flavor off-notes therefrom.
2. An essential oil as in claim 1 in which the acidified peroxide and/or ozone is in the presence of at least one water soluble inorganic acid, and the peroxide is an inorganic peroxide.
3. An essential oil as in claim 1 or 2 in which the peroxide is hydrogen peroxide.
4. An essential oil as in any of claims 1 or 2 in which the acid is hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid.
5. An essential oil as in claim 2 in which the peroxide is hydrogen peroxide and the acid is hydrochloric acid.
6. An essential oil as in any of claims 1 or 2 which is a mint oil, a peppermint oil, spearmint oil or a distilled oil.
7. A flavored or fragranced product made with the essential oil of any of claims 1 or 2.
8. A confectionary, food, cosmetic, perfume, body hygiene product or medicinal made with the essential oil of claim 1.
9. A confectionary as in Claim 8 which is chewing gum, a candy or a pressed mint.
10. A process for removing harsh flavor off-notes from the essential oil of a botanical material which comprises treating said oil with an acidified peroxide and/or ozone.
11. A process as in Claim 10 in which the acidified peroxide and/or ozone is in the presence of at least one water soluble acid, and peroxide is an inorganic peroxide.
12. A process as in Claim 10 or 11 in which the peroxide is hydrogen peroxide.
13. A process as in any of claims 10 or 11, in which the acid is hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid.
14. A process as in any of claims 10 or 11, in which the acidified peroxide is hydrogen peroxide and the acid is hydrochloric acid.
15. A process as in any of claims 10 or 11, in which said essential oil is a mint oil, a peppermint oil, a spearmint oil or a distilled oil.
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