Keywords
Essential oil , lemongrass , terpene , pervaporation , solvent extraction, food preservation ,antioxidant
Abstract
"Essential oils" (EOs) are plant subordinate metabolites that have volatile , open, and complex traits. EOs are a complex blend of subordinate metabolites ("terpenes, phenolic compounds", and intoxicating). EOs offer a wide range of organic actions, containing antioxidant, uncontaminated, and antagonistic-instigative belongings. The essential lubricant of the plant is used in flavouring, fragrance, and "aromatherapy", in addition to curative beverages, able to be consumed in herb, and rash situations. It is familiar as the beginning of ethnomedicine. Cymbopogon is a 'Greek term'. They are "kymbe," that means "boat " and "pogon" that means "beard," both of that hint to a decorative pierce composition.Lemongrass essential oil (LEO), the main product that is extracted from a lemongrass plant, still serves as a commodity, namely used in the foodstuff industry on account of allure unusually extreme citral content, which offers high content of citral that in addition offers antibacterial activity and the pleasant aroma . Lemongrass, likewise popularly known as Cymbopogon citratus, presently contains about 55 varieties. Cymbopogon citratus is a plant owned by Sri Lanka and Southern India, even though it is also found in "South and Central America, in Savannah, tropical, and semi tropical climates". The principal phytoconstituents are essential oils (that involve "Citral, Nerol Geraniol, Citronellal, Terpinolene, Geranyl acetate, Myrcene, and Terpineol, Methyl Heptenone), flavonoids, and phenolic compounds (that contain luteolin, isoorientin 2'-rhamnoside, quercetin, kaempferol, and apiginin". Lemongrass essential oil can be derived utilising a sort of methods, containing "Solvent Extraction, Steam Distillation, Hydrodistillation (HD), Microwave Assisted Hydrodistillation (MAHD), and Supercritical Fluid Extraction (SFE) utilising CO2".This review item holds current information concerning lemongrass essential oil , allure distillation techniques, synthetic elements, and pharmacological venture.
IJCRT's Publication Details
Unique Identification Number - IJCRT2312490
Paper ID - 247386
Page Number(s) - e393-e409
Pubished in - Volume 11 | Issue 12 | December 2023
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -    http://doi.one/10.1729/Journal.38465
Publisher Name - IJCRT | www.ijcrt.org | ISSN : 2320-2882
E-ISSN Number - 2320-2882
Cite this article
  Manya Bajaj,  Aaliya Naaz,  Dr. Vijay Singh,   
"A review on lemongrass essential oil- A blessing to human being", International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT), ISSN:2320-2882, Volume.11, Issue 12, pp.e393-e409, December 2023, Available at :
http://www.ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2312490.pdf