CINNAMON OR TRUE CINNAMON - Intercom Exports
CINNAMON OR TRUE CINNAMON - Intercom Exports
CINNAMON OR TRUE CINNAMON - Intercom Exports
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Is colourless to pale yellowish-brown, similar in odour to stem-batk oil but<br />
weaker, camphoraceous and lacking in fragrance. The major component is camphor upto<br />
60% , which crystallizes out on standing, plus 1,8-cinneole upto 16% and eugenol upto<br />
5%. Oil yield from root bark at 1-2.8% is higher than leaf and stem bark. Root- bark oil is<br />
produced only in Sri Lanka when an exhausted plantation is replanted and is usually<br />
added to other cinnamon oils.<br />
Characteristics of cinnamon bark oils from selected origins<br />
characteristic Sri Lanka Seychelles Madagascar<br />
Specific gravity<br />
Optical rotation<br />
refractive<br />
index(20ºCelcius)<br />
Aldehyde as<br />
cinnamaldehyde(%)<br />
Eugenol content%<br />
1.023-1.040 a<br />
0º to –1º.8'<br />
1.581- 1.591<br />
65-76<br />
4- 10<br />
0.943- 0.976 b<br />
-2º30' to –5º 10'<br />
1.528 – 1.532<br />
22- 84<br />
6 - 15<br />
1.016 b<br />
-2º.34'<br />
1.5746<br />
PACKAGING OF DIFFERENT COMMERCIAL CLASSES OF <strong>CINNAMON</strong><br />
BARK AND POWDER<br />
WHOLE <strong>CINNAMON</strong><br />
The different commercial classes of whole cinnamon are usually packed as<br />
follows.<br />
1) cinnamon, type SriLanka in cylindrical bales of about 45 kg each<br />
2) cinnamon, type Seychelles and type Madagascar in bales of about 50 kg each<br />
3) cinnamon, type Seychelles quills and quillings are packed in wooden boxes of about<br />
100 to 150 kg each.<br />
<strong>CINNAMON</strong> POWDER<br />
Cinnamon powder shall be packed in clean, sound and dry containers made of a<br />
material which doesnot affect the product or its flavour. In addition , the containers shall<br />
protect the cinnamon powder against moisture ingress and loss of volatile matter.<br />
61.4<br />
PACKING OF CASSIA AND CINAMON AND THEIR PRODUCTS<br />
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