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›› 2011, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (3): 53-56.

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Review on Development and Comprehensive Utilization of Rosemary Resources

BI Liang-wu, LI Da-wei, ZHAO Zhen-dong, LI Dong-mei   

  1. Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, CAF;National Engineering Lab.for Biomass Chemical Utilization;Key and Open Lab. on Forest Chemical Engineering, SFA;Key Lab.of Biomass Energy and Material, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210042, China
  • Received:2010-12-30 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2011-05-30 Published:2011-05-30

Abstract: The present status of rosemary resources utilization for producing various products such as essential oil, antioxidant, pharmaceutical active components (carnosic acid, carnosol, rosmarinic acid, ursolic acid and oleanolic acid) and residue of rosemary were reviewed. This paper emphasized that it is necessary to investigate comprehensive extraction processes and utilization techniques for those five pharmaceutical active components to find out some new pathways for value-added utilization of rosemary resources.

Key words: rosemary, essential oil, antioxidant, pharmaceutical active component, utilization

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