Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Ingredient Origin
- Food Ingredients Functions
- Starting Raw Material
- Leaves
- CAS No.
- 8015-91-6
- Botanical Name
- Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume
- Botanical family
- Lauraceae
- FEMA Number
- 2291.0
- Ingredients
- Cinnamon, Cassia Oil
- Technologies
- Product Families
- Main Origins
Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Seychellest
Features & Benefits
- Labeling Claims
- Food Ingredients Features
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Food & Nutrition Applications
- Uses
Applications in fragrances, flavors, aromatherapy, pharmacy and para-pharmacy. It has an antioxidant, analgesic, rubefacient, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antifungal activity.
Regulatory & Compliance
- Certifications & Compliance
- Regulation
- Monographs: ISO 3524, Ph. Eur., FCC.
- IFRA: Permitted. _x007f_
- Cosmetic Allergens: Limonene, Linalool, Benzyl Alcohol, Eugenol, Benzyl Benzoate.
- Safety summary: Maximum dermal use level depending on safrole and Eugenol content and the regulation applied. It is normally between 0.6% and 1%.
Maximum adult daily oral dose: 175 mg. Contraindicated in pregnancy and breastfeeding. Risk of drug interaction, skin sensitization or may inhibit blood clotting. By oral route, caution in bleeding disorders and with pethidine, MAOIs or SSRIs, because the oil can be interact with those components
Technical Details & Test Data
- Chemical Profile & Chemotypes
The oil of Cinnamon leaf can be adulterated with Eugenol Ex-Clove oil.
There are two restricted components that are present in the oil. One of them is Safrole which should not be used more than a total concentration of 0.01% because of its carcinogenic potential. However, the level of Safrole in cinnamon leaf oil is not important because is not greater than 1%. Safrole is prohibited from direct addition to food in USA and EU, and limited as naturally occurring substance in the EU flavoring regulation 1334/2008. The other restricted component is Eugenol, due to a possibly skin sensitization, and that has to be
considered because is the major component in the oil.The Eugenol is the component with the highest therapeutical activity.
Typical values for the main compounds present in this oil are detailed below:
ISO 3524:2003
- Cinnamaldehyde 0.8 - 1.5%
- E-Cinnamyl Acetate 1.1 - 1.8%
- Eugenol 70 - 83%
- Eugenyl Acetate 1.3 - 3%
- Benzyl Benzoate 2 - 4 %