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The Hive => Newbee Forum => Topic started by: saffrole on January 29, 2004, 02:57:00 AM

Title: distillation of safrol from star anise oil
Post by: saffrole on January 29, 2004, 02:57:00 AM

Has anybody actually tried this? What were the results? Someone I know is trying to figure out if this is economically feasable, and if any other methods of purification are required beyond the distillation. Does anyone happen to know what the safrol content of raw Star Anise oil typically would be?

Title: That should be...
Post by: GC_MS on January 29, 2004, 06:00:00 AM

... near 0%.

Title: false information?
Post by: saffrole on January 30, 2004, 12:22:00 AM

I saw (somewhere on this site I think) that star anise has a percentage of safrol in it. maybe read it somewhere. I'm not talking about anise seed.

Title: It's there, but in too low amounts
Post by: Rhodium on January 30, 2004, 12:39:00 AM

Correct, that is misinformation. Star anise oil contain no useful amounts of safrole, even if I bet that it is detectable in most samples. 'Detectable' by no means equals 'useful', as exemplified by this:

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