Caraway

Product Details

About

It is a plant of the Umbelliferae family, biennial and some cultivars are annual. Its plant is like a carrot plant. Its stem reaches a height of 50 to 90 centimeters. Its root is spindle-shaped and its fruit is long, narrow, slightly curved with a length of 5 millimeters, both sides of which are narrow. The color of the fruit is dark brown to black, it has five light long protruding lines on the surface and its smell is pungent and fragrant.
It grows in many areas in Iran and Iranian caraway is special in the world.

Chemical Constituents

The mericarps (‘seeds’) contain protein (40%), fixed oil and resin (10%) and a volatile oil (3-8%). The principal constituents of the volatile oil are carvone (55-60%) and limonene. Other monoterpenes present are a-pinene, b-pinene, and p-cymene. The fixed oil is rich in oleic (60%), linoleic (20%) and petroselinic (17%) acids. The phenolics reported from the seeds are glycosides of kaempferol, quercetin and isorhamnetin and coumarins such as 5- and 8-methoxy psoralens, umbelliferone, herniarin, and scopoletin. The whole plant also yields a volatile oil consisting of cadinene (37%), carvone (31%) and dihydrocarveol (10%). The roots contain polyenes, falcarindione, falcarinolone, phytofluene, b-sitosterol, umbelliferone and scopoletin. Leaves contain glycosides of kaempferol and quercetin.

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