Essential oils are natural products which have many interesting applications. Extraction of
essential oils from plants is performed by classical and innovative methods. Numerous …

Along more than a decade, R&D on supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) of vegetable matrices
has been increasingly reported in the literature. Aiming at portraying the current state of this …

This review presents an overview of the dynamically developing field of mass spectrometry‐
based metabolomics. Metabolomics aims at the comprehensive and quantitative analysis of …

The increasing interest of consumers in functional foods has brought about a rise in demand
for functional ingredients obtained using “natural” processes. In this review, new …

Supercritical extraction and fractionation of natural matter is one of the early and most
studied applications in the field of supercritical fluids. In the last 10 years, studies on the …

The use of supercritical fluids, especially carbon dioxide, in the extraction of plant volatile
components has increased during two last decades due to the expected advantages of the …

Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) is an innovative, clean and environmental friendly
technology with particular interest for the extraction of essential oil from plants and herbs …

Chromatographic (GC/flame ionization detection, GC/MS) and statistical analyses were
applied to the study of essential oils and extracts obtained from flowers, leaves, and stems of …

Microwave-assisted hydrodistillation (MAHD) is an advanced hydrodistillation (HD)
technique utilizing a microwave oven in the extraction process. MAHD of essential oils from …

Sesquiterpene lactones are a large group of natural compounds, found primarily in plants of
Asteraceae family, with over 5000 structures reported to date. Within this family, genus …