Recently, numerous side effects of synthetic drugs have lead to using medicinal plants as a
reliable source of new therapy. Pain is a global public health problem with a high impact on …

Essential oils are concentrated liquids of complex mixtures of volatile compounds and can
be extracted from several plant organs. Essential oils are a good source of several bioactive …

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 …

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 …

The separation of phenolic compounds by supercritical fluid extraction has been widely
studied throughout the last two decades. This is evidenced by a number of publications and …

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 …

This review provides an updated overview of the most important applications of supercritical
fluids in the extraction of bioactive compounds from plant matrices. The main factors …

A total of 38 phenolic compounds in the solid/liquid extracts of five Lamiaceae spices,
rosemary, oregano, sage, basil, and thyme, were identified in the present study using LC …

Sample preparation is the crucial first step in the analysis of herbs. In recent years there has
been increasing interest worldwide in the use of alternative/herbal medicine for 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 …