Essential Oil from the Cardamom Plant it’s known as Elettaria cardamomum Extracts of Elettaria cardamomum, commonly known as green or true cardamom, is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the ginger family, native to southern India. It is the most common of the species whose seeds are used as a spice called cardamom. It’s sweet, spicy and almost balsamic in fragrance. The cardamom essential oil is obtained by extracting its dried seed through the process of Super Critical Fluid Extraction green technology method. The cardamom essential oil obtained transparent liquid consists of various components namely a-pinene, b-pinene, sabinene, myrcene, a-phellandrene, limonene, 1,8-cineole, y-terpinene, p-cymene, terpinolene, linalool, linalyl acetate, terpinen-4-oil, a-terpineol, a-terpineol acetate, citronellol, nerol, geraniol, methyl eugenol and trans-nerolidol.
