Citrus: The Genus Citrus

Giovanni Dugo
University of Messina, Canzini, Italy
Angelo Di Giacomo Stazione
Sperimentale, Milan, Italy

Series: Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Industrial Profiles List Price: $149.95 Our Price $130.95 Cat. #: TF1519 ISBN: 0415284910 Publication Date: 9/12/2002 Number of Pages: 656 Publisher Availability: In Stock CRC Press

The world production of citrus fruit has risen enormously in the last few decades, leaping from forty-five million tons a year in the early 1970s to eighty-five million in the season of 1996-1997. More than thirty per cent of these fruits go into industrial production in which essential oils and juice are the principal products.

The main applications of essential oils are as flavorings for alcohol, soft drinks, food, pharmaceutical products and as fragrances for cosmetics and beauty products. Today, the potential applications of these essential oils are growing wider because they are environmentally 'safer' than the petrochemical products they can sometimes replace.

This book offers comprehensive coverage on all aspects of the botany, cultivation, processing industry, chemistry and uses of Citrus and its oils. Anyone involved in food sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, cosmetics, pharmacy and plant sciences will no doubt find this volume to be of great value and interest.