Spices Production Progress and Prospects

Perfume smell is the smell can smell or taste taste the flavor, fragrance or directly used for the preparation flavoring substances to the product, is a high value-added fine chemical products, mainly for food, household chemicals, tobacco, liquor, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries flavored products. Except for a few occasions, the fragrance can not be directly used in consumer products, and only after dubbed flavors can be used for food, cosmetics and so on. Flavor is a combination of spices (sometimes a certain amount of solvent and other additives) out of the deployment, with a certain flavor, directly to a product mixture of flavoring

1.1 Depending on the source can be divided into natural spices and spice synthetic fragrances into two categories. Natural spices and natural flavors can be divided into animal and plant natural fragrance categories, namely, to obtain directly from plants and animals. Is the use of natural raw materials, synthetic flavors or chemical raw materials, through chemical synthesis method of preparation perfume compounds.

1.2 Depending on the application can be divided into household spices, food and other uses three categories. Daily are: cosmetics, detergents, soaps, dentifrices, incense, air fresheners, etc. Consumption are: food, tobacco, alcohol use, medicinal and so on. Other uses are: plastic, rubber, leather, paper, ink, crafts, paint, feed, lure agents.

Biotechnological production of natural spices, there are a lot of work to do: high-yield strains and fermentation conditions are optimal, genetically engineered bacteria to build properly and expression; reduce the cost of such biological method.