There are two used important species of Satureja like culinarias grass. Hortensis L. of Satureja, known like flavorful summer, includes the flavorful principle of commerce. It is a herbaceous, natural annual publication to southern and naturalized Europe to the sections of North America. Satureja Montana L., or flavorful winter, robust, perennial is hoisted, a natural one to Europe and Africa of the north, and only used limitedly. The flowers of both flavorful species are pink to blue-target and they are known to attract bees.
The well-known zone of the life of the flavorful summer is 7 to with 0.3 to 1.3 meters of annual the precipitation and pH of land from 5.6 to 8.2 (4.1-31). To reach a height of 0.5 meter, the flavorful summer better develops in light of the filled sun and is quite tolerant of different regimes, of type earth and different from humidity. The flavorful winter, a plant slightly smaller than the flavorful summer, grows between 7 and with 0.7 to 1.7 meters the annual precipitation and pH of land from 6.5 to 7.3 (4.1-31).
The plants are harvested generally during the first season that blooms and if the perennial plants like ephemeral swellings, harvested twice in subsequent years. The uniformity of the matter of plant to process is generally doubtful as a combination of type plants of the origin and together similar botanical perfumes are reunited frequently and bulked.
The main components of the essential oil in the flavorful summer are carvacrol of fenoles and thymol, as well as párr-cymene, - caryophyllene, linalool, - terpineol, camphene, myrcene, and another one terpenoids (6,4-102, 14,1-8). The essential oil of the flavorful winter includes carvacrol of fenoles and thymol, as well as párr-cymene, L-linolool, L-terpineol, D-borneol, alcohol of dihydrocuminyl, of 1 carvone, L-menthone, and several acids (14,1-8 organic ones). Lubrication of capitatus of Coridothymus Fchb. F., a type of origanum, and vulgaris of Thymus L. is used sometimes like adulterants in the oil (14,1-8 flavorful one).
The green leaves and the herbaceous sections of stems of both species are used fresh and dried condimentando like a agents in condimentos, the estofados ones, plates of meat, the homemade birds, sausages, and vegetables. The flavorful summer has been having an aroma and the perfume sweetest and more delicate than for flavorful winter, and is therefore most popular of the two species. The essential oil, obtained by the distillation of the steam, and the oleorresina is used in the food industry. In addition, the essential oils of both species have been used in the perfume industry, or single or mixed with other essential oils.
As it plants medicinal: The flavorful summer has been used traditionally like stimulating, estomaquico, carminativo, expectorante, a antidiarreico one, and afrodisíaco. The essential oil has demonstrated to be antibacterial and with activity of antidiarreico because of fenoles in the oil (14.1-8). Flavorful it has been used in the treatment of the cancer (14.1-16).
Hortensis de Calamintha, Hort. and C. Huída of montana. it has been mentioned erroneously like flavorful summer and winter, respectively (14,1-3, 14,1-4). Intricata de Satureja, a flavorful one of Spain, has been returned to classify recently like montana of Satureja and nepeta of Satureja, Europe and Asia, has been returned to classify like of Calamintha (14,1-3 nepeta). Thymbra de Satureja, of which chemotypes are several, grows wildly in some Mediterranean and Mean-Eastern countries and is known for its high content of carvacrol or thymol. This plant is chosen and is used locally in teas of grass, in culinarias preparations, and when an oregano when other plants used normally as oregano is indisponible. Douglasii de Satureja, a perennial plant of perennial leaf, is also used in the western United States like a tea.
The flavorful summer and the winter condimentos extracts of and planta/aceite are recognized generally as safe for the human consumption like both especias/naturales (21 sections of CFR 182.10, 182.20 [ 1982 ]).
[ note: the References listed above in parenthesis can be found in complete in the original reference ].
Source: Simon, J.E., A.F. Chadwick and L.E. Craker. 1984. Grass: A Bibliography Put in an index. 1971-1980. Scientific Literature in the selected grass, and aromatic and medicinal plants of the tempered zone. Books De Archon, 770 pp., Hamden, CT.
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