Affiliations 

  • 1 National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA
  • 2 Technical Innovation Center, McCormick and Company, Inc., Hunt Valley, MD, USA
Planta Med, 2019 Feb;85(3):185-194.
PMID: 30440078 DOI: 10.1055/a-0782-0548

Abstract

The growing demand and commercial value of black pepper (Piper nigrum) has resulted in considerable interest in developing suitable and cost-effective methods for chemical characterization and quality evaluation purposes. In the current study, an extensive set of oil samples (n = 23) that were extracted by steam distillation from black pepper seeds was investigated to compare the chemical profiles of samples originating from nine major producing countries, as well as to identify potential chemical markers for quality evaluation. The twenty-two most abundant volatile compounds, mainly terpenes, in these oils were determined by conventional GC/MS analysis. Principal component analysis with this set of data revealed distinct clusters for samples that originated from China and Malaysia. Relatively low concentrations of sabinene (

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