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Product: Orange Oil
Orange Oil USA Citrus sinensis
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Description
Orange oil is extracted by simple pressure from the outer coloured part of the Citrus sinensis' peel. Oranges are widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical climates for the sweet fruit and commercially for essential oil extraction. Other origins for Orange oil include Brazil, South Africa & Spain.
Orange oil is a by-product of the juice industry. Oil is cold pressed from the peel of the fruit, after juice extraction and is widely used across the flavour and fragrance industry. Sweet orange (citrus sinensis) is around 90% d’limonene, a product used across many more industries. Approximately 40% of global oranges are processed for juice and oil with 60% solely used as a fresh fruit for consumption.
Bearing acreage of orange in the USA is a particular worry as year on year the output has been declining. In the past 10 years it has fallen from around 770 thousand acres to 600 thousand acres today. Below are Florida's recent fresh fruit outputs, courtesy of the USDA, showing the significance of the decline.
TYPE / SEASON 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16* Valencia Type (1,000 boxes) 72,500 66,500 51,300 49,400 33,000 Non-Valencia Type (1,000 boxes) 74,200 67,100 53,300 39,500 36,000 *2015/16 data forecasted by USDA at 9th February 2016
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Product Details
- Botanical name: Citrus sinensis
- Origin: USA
- Crop Season: February - May
- Plant/part used: Fruit/peel
- Method of extraction: Cold expression
- TSCA CAS: 8008-57-9
- EINECS CAS: 8028-48-6
- EINECS: 232-433-8
- INCI Name: Citrus aurantium dulcis (Orange) oil
- Appearance: Yellow orange to deep orange mobile liquid
- Organoleptic Properties: Orange fresh juicy sweet
- Density: 0.841 - 0.851
- Refractive index: 1.470 - 1.474
- Optical rotation: +94° to +102°
- Chemical constituents: Limonene, Myrcene, Pinene, Linalool.
- REACH: Registered
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Latest Market Information January 19, 2026
The U.S. orange oil market remains firm to bullish through October-December 2025, with constrained availability supported by structurally lower Florida orange output and ongoing volatility driven by citrus greening pressure and weather-related production uncertainty. Orange oil supply continues to be tightly linked to Florida’s juice-processing stream, and official USDA citrus forecasting confirms the severity of supply constraints, with Florida’s 2024-25 orange production forecast at 12.2 million boxes, consisting of 4.60 million boxes of non-Valencia oranges and 7.55 million boxes of Valencia oranges, reinforcing the historically low feedstock availability entering the processing system.
This supply level remains near the lowest point in decades for Florida and continues to translate into reduced peel generation and limited extractable orange oil volumes, maintaining a tight supply environment into the winter demand window. The Florida Department of Citrus continues to publish weekly processor reports tracking production and inventory movement, reinforcing that market availability remains dependent on processing throughput and stock positions rather than fresh-market citrus volumes.
Market prices : USD 16.00 /kilo -
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