NATURALSTOGETHER(r)
Pepper, Citrus
The essential oil is terpenic with pine and woody facets.
Pink Pepper offers top-note as well as middle-note.
Obtained by distillation of the biomass with water, or steam.
The essential oil is physically separated from the aqueous phase by decantation.
Extracted part: dried berries.
Yield : 4 – 6%
20kg app of berries for 1kg of EO
Pink Pepper is mainly sourced from Brazil, Madagascar and Reunion. Pink Pepper processed for the F&F industry is generally the sorting gap of the berries used for food industry. Two botanicals species exist , Shinus molle mostly used in the Flavor industry while Shinus terebenthifolius is used in Perfumery. After harvest, farmers sort the bunches by removing the leaves and keeping only the red berries, followed by drying, sorting and packaging.
Brazil
In Brazil, the production of Pink Pepper only began in the late 90’s. At the beginning, production was mainly relying on wild harvest but cultivation, but due to the industry’s expectations, cultivation was required. Cultivation is done by small and medium landholders mainly for the food industry. Production between wild and cultivated is apx. 300 to 400MT / year