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Product: Lemon Oil
Ripe lemons ready for collection
Typical lemon plantation
Lemons arriving in bulk for processing
Lemon Oil Argentina Citrus limon (L.) Burm. F.
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Description
Lemon oil from all corners of the world is one of Ultra’s core products and is obtained by cold expression or steam distillation of lemon peel.
Lemon has a place in many culinary uses from soft drinks and cocktails to marmalade. However, it can also be used and found in household cleaning products since it can disinfect, deodorise, remove grease and dissolve wax and grime to name but a few uses.
Lemon is also used in aromatherapy to enhance moods and can be used for its anti-bacterial properties in other medicinal applications. In fragrances it gives a fresh uplifting and zesty note to any perfume as it is highly volatile.
Interestingly the three top producers of fresh lemons in the world are not the countries we would associate with oil production; the top 3 being China, India and Mexico, which account for over 40% of the world production.
Today we associate lemon oil production with Italy and Spain (Europe), Argentina and USA (Americas) and even South Africa.
Over the past 40 years Argentina's processed lemon volumes have increased significantly decade on decade, from an average annual volume of 80,000 MT in the 1970s, to 200,000 MT in the 1980s, to 540,000 MT in the 1990s and 900,000 MT since 2000. This is why today its contribution is very important to our markets.
Argentina's 2014 crop disaster put huge pressure on the global market, something we are still recovering from. Argentina contributes around 10% of the global fresh lemon fruit market. When you think that over the past 5 years Argentina has processed an average of 860,000 MT of fresh lemons then any crop 'disaster' will have a major impact on the global market.
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Product Details
- Botanical name: Citrus limon (L.) Burm. F.
- Origin: Argentina
- Crop Season: May - July
- Plant/part used: Ripe peel of fruit.
- Method of extraction: Expression/Distillation
- TSCA CAS: 8008-56-8
- EINECS CAS: 84929-31-7
- EINECS: 284-515-8
- INCI Name: Citrus medica limonum (Lemon) peel oil
- Appearance: Pale yellow to dark yellow mobile liquid.
- Organoleptic Properties: Fresh lemon peel sweet citrus aldehydic
- Density: 0.845 -0.860
- Refractive index: 1.468 -1.480
- Optical rotation: +57º to +70º
- Chemical constituents: Limonene, Terpinene, Pinene, Sabinene, Myrcene, Citral, Linalool.
- Fragrance usage: max. 10%
- REACH: Registered
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Latest Market Information October 24, 2024
The citrus sector of Tucumán faces one of its most serious crises. About 4 to 6 years ago, discarded lemons were thrown away from the packaging because they were dirty fruit. But later those fields were no longer harvested. And now there are closures of farms and packaging. Some 12,000 hectares of lemon crops are abandoned or with medium or low care. This opens the door to HLB providing ideal conditions for “greening” to arrive and settle. This is in addition to the 6,000 hectares that have been lost or are irrecoverable. Producers and industrialists affirm that the season will be very complicated due to the low price of the fruit due to global overproduction. This is because other countries have ventured into lemons and have become serious competitors for the province in terms of exports.
Added to this is that for 4 years there has been fresh fallen fruit that is not harvested because it constitutes a high cost in labour. Furthermore, 4 years ago, between 35 and 40 tonnes/ha were produced with good fertilisation, but today the production rate ranges between 5 and 8 tonnes/ha. That is, there is less production, and the producer can no longer make a living from this activity.
Market prices : USD 12.00 /kilo -
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