Brand: Citrofood
Chinese Name: 苦橙油（酸橙提取物）
English Name: Bitter Orange oil
CAS No.: 68916-04-1
Processing method: bitter orange or fresh orange peel by cold pressing
Color: yellow to orange
The Characteristic of Citrofood Italian Bitter Orange Oil: mainly fruity sweet aroma, clear fragrance of
flower, fruits and orange juice with light sense of bitter
Characteristics: Yellow, Orange or orange red liquid, clear but turns turbid with lowered temperature. Special
aroma of Seville oranges and butter fragrance. Could be affected by lights. Litmus test for alcohol solution is
neutral.
Solubility: soluble in most volatile oils, mineral oils.
Specific Gravity at 20°C: 0.840-0.860
Refractive Index at 20°C: 1.4720-1.4760
Optical Rotation at 20°C: 88° -98°
Package: 173kgs galvanized iron barrel, 1L; 5kg; 25L.
Preservation: Packaged products (closed top steel drums) should be kept at room temperature (25°C) in covered
areas to avoid sunlight. Bulk products should be stored in stainless steel tanks with inner coating at room temperature (25°C).
Application:
Bitter Orange, also known as Seville orange, its fruits, flowers and leaves that can be used in various fields in
different processes. The yield is about 0.15% to 0.4% of the total fruit. Mainly produced in the West Indies, Italy,
Brazil and Spain, China also has a small number of production.
Bitter orange is often used in the food industry, including fruit wine, beverages, sweets, pastries, biscuits, jams
and other fragrances, in addition to bitter orange oil in the field of daily chemical for a variety of flavor-type
products, with outstanding flavor expression and coordination role. In China, bitter orange is mainly used in the
field of medicine, bitter orange or its cultivation variants of dried young fruit, dry immature fruit are gunned into
traditional Chinese medicine and crustacean shell, clinically can be used as a common medicine for gas, spleen,
apocalypse, bitter orange oil is also used for daily flavor, edible flavor, and tobacco flavor.