Essential oils of spearmint (Carvone-rich) plants from the island of Crete (Greece)

Kokkini, Stella; Karousou, Regina; Lanaras, T.

doi:10.1016/0305-1978(95)00021-l

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“…The meaning of that name leads to the carvone-rich Mentha plants of the Spicatae group, Mentha longifolia, Mentha spicata and Mentha × villosonervata, which are since antiquity cultivated in almost every garden of the Greek countryside and are widely used for food flavoring (cf. Detienne, 1994;Kokkini et al, 1995). (b) "Hedyosmon agreion", i.e.…”

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“Mints”, smells and traditional uses in Thessaloniki (Greece) and other Mediterranean countries

Karousou

Balta

Hanlidou

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Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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“…Harley, 1972;Kokkini, 1983). According to literature data, the sweet smelling "mints" produce essential oils rich in carvone and/or dihydrocarvone (spearmint oils) (Kokkini, 1983(Kokkini, , 1991(Kokkini, , 1992 and references therein; Kokkini et al, 1995Kokkini et al, , 2003.…”

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“Mints”, smells and traditional uses in Thessaloniki (Greece) and other Mediterranean countries

Karousou

Balta

Hanlidou

et al. 2007

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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“…Corn mint is the richest source of natural menthol (Sharma and Tyagi 1991;Shasany et al 2000). Carvone-scented mint plants, such as spearmint, are rich in carvone and are widely used as spices and cultivated in several countries (Kokkini et al 1995). Peppermint oil is used for flavouring pharmaceuticals and oral preparations, such as toothpastes, dental creams, and mouth washes.…”

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Biological activities of the essential oils and methanol extract of tow cultivated mint species (Mentha longifolia and Mentha pulegium) used in the Tunisian folkloric medicine

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Trabelsi

Noumi³

et al. 2009

World J Microbiol Biotechnol

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The composition of the essential oils and methanolic extracts of two cultivated mint species (M. longifolia and M. pulegium), as well as the in vitro antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of the essential oil and methanol extract of Mentha longifolia and Mentha pulegium were compared. GC-MS analysis of the essential oil identified 41 compounds constituting 96.66 and 96.13% of the total oil from M. longifolia and M. pulegium, respectively. The later oils were rich on pulegone (47.15 and 61.11%, respectively). Moreover, 1,8 cineole (11.54%), menthone (10.7%), a-pinene (3.57%), a-terpineol (3.17%) and d-cadinene (3.53%) were only present in M. longifolia oil, while isomenthone (17.02%), and piperitone (2.63%), were characteristic of M. pulegium oil. Shoot extract of the two species showed significantly different contents in total polyphenols (89.1 and 37.41 mg GAE/g DW), flavonoids (63.93 and 33.83 mg CE/g DW) and tannins (1.47 and 3.07 mg CE/g DW), respectively in M. longifolia and M. pulegium. The essential oils showed strong antimicrobial activity against all 16 microorganisms tested, whereas the methanol extracts were inactive. Moreover, the essential oils showed higher antioxidant activity than the methanolic extracts against the DPPH and superoxide radical scavenging. In fact, antioxidant activities of the oils were the same for both M. longifolia and M. pulegium against DPPH (IC 50 = 9 and 10 lg/ml, respectively) and 2-fold and 4-fold higher than shoot extracts (IC 50 = 20 and 48 lg/ml, respectively). Moreover, both oils showed the same antioxidative abilities as compared to the positive control (butylated hydroxytoluene). In the same way, the capacity to inhibit superoxide anion was very significant for the two oils (0.1 lg/ml for M. longifolia and 0.11 lg/ml for M. pulegium).

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“…Such plants are cultivated in several countries for the commercial production of spearmint oil (Kokkini et al 1995). Carvone exerted weak mutagenic effects in the Ames test.…”

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Chemical Composition and In Vitro Cytotoxic, Genotoxic Effects of Essential Oil from Urtica dioica L.

Gül

Demirci

Başer

et al. 2012

Bull Environ Contam Toxicol

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The aim of this study was to determine the chemical composition of Urtica dioica essential oil, and to evaluate its cytotoxic and genotoxic effects, using cytogenetic tests such as the cytokinesis-block micronucleus assay and chromosomal aberration analysis in human lymphocyte cultures in vitro. GC-MS analysis of U. dioica essential oil identified 43 compounds, representing 95.8% of the oil. GC and GC-MS analysis of the essential oil of U. dioica revealed that carvacrol (38.2%), carvone (9.0%), naphthalene (8.9%), (E)-anethol (4.7%), hexahydrofarnesyl acetone (3.0%), (E)-geranyl acetone (2.9%), (E)-β-ionone (2.8%) and phytol (2.7%) are the main components, comprising 72.2% of the oil. A significant correlation was found between the concentration of essential oil and the following: chromosomal aberrations, micronuclei frequency, apoptotic cells, necrotic cells, and binucleated cells.

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Essential oils of spearmint (Carvone-rich) plants from the island of Crete (Greece)

Cited by 103 publications

References 11 publications

“Mints”, smells and traditional uses in Thessaloniki (Greece) and other Mediterranean countries

“Mints”, smells and traditional uses in Thessaloniki (Greece) and other Mediterranean countries

Biological activities of the essential oils and methanol extract of tow cultivated mint species (Mentha longifolia and Mentha pulegium) used in the Tunisian folkloric medicine

Chemical Composition and In Vitro Cytotoxic, Genotoxic Effects of Essential Oil from Urtica dioica L.

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