If you’re involved in the perfume or food industry you definitely heared about Oleoresin and face the question of what is it.
This component is an highly important factor so if you want to know this matter stick with Mahuk saffron.
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What is oleoresin and what does it do in cooking?
This product is similar to essences, so similar that sometimes it can be misunderstood as an essence yet it’s a completely different component come from different situations.
Oleoresin is a semi- solid component, part of this matter is oil or resin like and another part is the essence that you need, saying that still the oily part also tastes good.
There are many techniques to extract the essences but the technique to extract oleoresin from main solvent is evaporation. In this method heavier combinations are acquired.
Now that you know what is oleoresin let’s discuss the extraction and the different essence extracted with this product. In general extract procedure of these products are different in many ways.
The method to extract essences is distillation, distillation with water and steam is the common method to acquire essence, yet distillation with warm or cold water and cold or warm steams are different.
Extracting oleoresin only comes from evaporation, thus the remaining matter is a bit heavier and rougher than distillation method or the essences itself.
Remember that oleoresin is produced in different types so it’s only natural to utilize it in different industries.
This product ‘s food grade is broad in spectrum and it can also be used as a domestic and eatable medicine.
For instance if you’ve got any problem eating saffron you can use oleoresin in combination with other stuff to get a better taste.
But many people also use oleoresin to cook other products such as cakes, yet it’s better to use essences for such products because they’re easier to combine.
Best type of oleoresin
Best type of oleoresin is the ones that can be kept in special glass or plastic bottles. Since these products are sensitive to the ultraviolet rays their bottles are dark blue or electric.
There are many herbs with oleoresin inside, saffron is one of them. Among asian specially middle east this herb is really important.
Saffron’s oleoresin is usually used as a seasoning but actually it has a lot of practices in cosmetic health industry and pharmaceutics, it has been observed that this product being used as a home treatment component.
This herb belongs to the family of Crocus satius, but do not forget the fact that we have different types of saffron around the world but the best kind grows in Iran so the best quality of oleoresin is also found in Iran.
Usually oleoresin is easily dissolved in water and oil but with adding a sip of alcohol to it you can use it as a soluble in alcohol.
If you already know what is oleoresin and you’ve come after it then you know that products that come from extracting oleoresin technique have much more scents.
Saffron’s oleoresin
Saffron’s oleoresin also got a lot of vivacious scents, this product is also used in perfume making industries because like other oleoresin its got a lot of aroma which is a bit warm and plesant, visually most of oleoresins have got dark colors.
We gathered some other oleoresins name here;
Black pepper oleoresin
White pepper oleoresin
Green pepper oleoresin
nutmeg oleoresin
Mint oleoresin
Mustard oleoresin
Garlic oleoresin
fenugreek oleoresin
Paprika oleoresin
And so on.
There are medical and eatable oleoresins of saffron too, eatable oleoresins have many benefits that prevents many diseases.
In this bulletin of Mahuk saffron we covered what is Oleoresin and how it’s been utilized we hope we prepared enough information about this subject. Also if you have any more information relating this subject please inform us.
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