QUASSIA WOOD FLUID EXTRACT Chemical Properties

FEMA 

2971 | QUASSIA EXTRACT (PICRASMA EXCELSA (SW.) PLANCH.-QUASSIA AMARA L.)

EPA Substance Registry System

Quassia extract (68915-32-2)

QUASSIA WOOD FLUID EXTRACT Usage And Synthesis

Chemical Properties

Pale yellow powder with extremely bitter taste. One of the bitter components is Quassin (C2H28O6), which can form flaky crystals in dilute methanol solution, with a melting point of 222 ℃, and a bitterness threshold of 1:60,000. The bitterness of the commercially available product is about 60 times that of quinine. Jamaica and other production of "Jamaica bitter tree" (Picrasma excelsa) Brazil and other production of bitter wood (Quassia amara) and Colombia, Panama, the West Indies produced by the bitter wood family (Simaroubaceae) plant bark and so on are contained.

Definition

Extractives and their physically modified derivatives such as tinctures, concretes, absolutes, essential oils, oleoresins, terpenes, terpene-free fractions, distillates, residues, etc., obtained from Quassia, Simaroubaceae.

Composition

The extract contains complex terpenoid compounds called quassinoids.

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