The Chemical Composition of the Essential Oil of Mastic Gum

Seasonal Variation of Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Essential Oil from Pistacia atlantica Desf. Leaves

“…In the essential oil obtained from the leaves, some authors found a dominance of monoterpene hydrocarbons [12][13][14][15][16][17]. In particular, the main constituents of the most studied species, P. lentiscus, were a-pinene (Greece and France) [16][17][18], myrcene (Spain and Sicily) [12,16], d-carene (Egypt) [14], and terpinen-4-ol, a-pinene, limonene, and myrcene (Corsica) [17]. According to their intraspecific variability, the essential oil of P. lentiscus can be classified into three groups on the basis of their content of terpinen-4-ol, a-pinene, limonene, and myrcene.…”

The Essential Oil ofPistacia lentiscusL. from Algeria

“…Several studies concerning the chemical composition of P. lentiscus oil and solvent extracts have been reported (2). The oils of various P. lentiscus populations from France, Spain, Israel, Italy and Egypt were previously studied and different compositions were established (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19). This paper presents an investigation of the Algerian P. lentiscus oil composition.…”

Chios Mastic Gum and Its Food Applications

“…It also contains a series of phenolic compounds such as tyrosol, and p-hydroxy-benzoic, p-hydroxy-phenylacetic, vanillic, gallic, and trans-cinnamic acids. Its chemical composition has been evaluated by a number of researchers (Papageorgiou et al 1991 ;van den Berg et al 1998 ;Magiatis et al 1999 ;Daferera et al 2002 ;Dietemann et al 2005 ;Koutsoudaki et al 2005 ;Kaliora et al 2004 ). All have showed the predominant presence of α -pinene and β -myrcene, with the β -myrcene percentage being the determinant of the marketability of mastic gums.…”