“…The concentration steps in SFE are greatly simplified since the supercritical fluid such as carbon dioxide is easily removed from the extract by depressurization, and this presents another advantage of SFE compared to solvent extraction. SFE has recently been successfully applied to a range of natural products, such as spices [18][19][20], herbal plants [21,22], paper [23], wood [23,24], poppy straw [25], coffee [26], oilseeds [27], lemons [28], aromatic plants [29], and vegetable oils [30,31]. The small sample requirement of SFE has been demonstrated by Elisabeth et al in the extraction of caffeine from 2 g of coffee powder using supercritical carbon dioxide.…”