Effect of Overfilled Solvent and Storage Time of Subcritical Extraction of Jasminum sambac on Yield, Antioxidant Activity, Antimicrobial Activity and Tentative Volatile Compounds

Abstract

Essential oil from Jasminum sambac flowers has demonstrated the potential of antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. However, jasmine flowers contain only a small amount of essential oil; therefore, subcritical fluid extraction (SFE) with HFC-134a, one of the effective extraction methods for flower extraction, was performed in this study. The percentage of overfilled solvent and storage time of the flowers were varied during the extraction. Antioxidant potential, antimicrobial potential and tentative volatile compounds were investigated in this study to observe the quality of the essential oil. It was discovered that a greater amount of overfilled solvent resulted in thicker essential oil and a longer storage time resulted in a lower amount of total oil yield. It could be seen that almost all extraction conditions did not have any significant difference in antioxidant and antimicrobial potential. The essential oil contained primary compounds such as indole, 9-tricosene, α-farnesene, muurolene, and benzyl alcohol. This study led to the conclusion that the amount of overfilled solvent from SFE affected the thickness of jasmine essential oil and its tentative volatile compounds. The longer storage time caused the significantly lower essential oil yield, but changing the extraction conditions had no significant effect on antioxidant or antimicrobial potential.