“…Supercritical carbon dioxide has been employed as the favorite extraction medium for many food functional components, i.e., caffeine (Iwai et al, 2006;Johannsen and Brunner, 1994;Kopcak and Mohamed, 2005;Li et al, 1991), capsaicin (Duarte et al, 2002;de la Fuente et al, 2005), carotenoids (Cygnarowicz et al, 1990;de la Fuente et al, 2006;Škerget et al, 1995;Subra et al, 1997), polyphenol (Berna et al, 2001;Cháfer et al, 2002;Nunes et al, 2007;Wang and Cheng, 2005), aspirin (Huang et al, 2005), and coenzyme Q10 (Matias et al, 2004).…”