Appearance |
Light yellow |
Odor |
Characteristic |
Taste |
Special smell |
Carvacrol |
75% |
Solubility |
Soluble in ethanol |
Proportion |
0.906~0.9160 |
Heavy Metal |
<10ppm |
As |
<2ppm |
Residual Solvents |
Eur.Pharm. |
|
|
Microbiology |
|
|
|
Total Plate Count |
<1000/g |
Yeast & Mold |
<100/g |
E.Coli |
Negative |
Salmonella |
Negative |
Origanum vulgare extract is a labiatae plant. The main active components of oil of Origanum vulgare are carvacrol and thymol. Origanum oil, as a new Chemicalbook type natural plant antibiotic, has broad-spectrum Antibacterial, significant curative effect, not easy to produce drug resistance, adverse reactions and so on, and has broad prospects for development. In addition, it also has the functions of anti-oxidation, enhancing the body immunity and so on, and has the function of sleeping.
The main components of origanum oil are phenol, parsley 79.6% , thyme 8.7% , thymol 2.5% , terpene 2.1% . Among them, carvacrol, thymol and thymol have strong antibacterial activity, its active ingredient has very strong surface activity and liposolubility, can quickly penetrate the pathogenic microorganism cell membrane, therefore causes the pathogenic microorganism water imbalance to die, in addition the carvacrol and the thymol have the activity in the outer layer of the intestinal epithelial cell, it can accelerate the renewal rate of intestinal epithelial cells, reduce the infection of pathogens to intestinal epithelial cells, enhance the ability of digestion and absorption of nutrients, and improve the growth performance and feed utilization.