Assessment of safe dose of Libyan Thymus Capitatus essential oil its use in the  manufacture of soft drinks.

Ashraf  Fatah Alzalitni; Mohamed  Abubaker  Fadel; Omar Abdussalam   Aghil

doi:10.54361/

Authors

Ashraf Fatah Alzalitni Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Dentistry, Tripoli University, Tripoli, Libya. Author
Mohamed Abubaker Fadel Faculty of Medical Technology , university of Tripoli, Libya Author
Omar Abdussalam Aghil Faculty of Medical Technology , university of Tripoli, Libya. Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54361/

Keywords:

essential oil, Thymus; antibacterial, antioxidant, Steam distillation

Abstract

In the present work, the Libyan wild-growing Thymus capitatus essential oil (EO) was evaluated for its manufacturing properties. In the organic food industry, no chemical additives can be used to prevent microbial spoilage. As a consequence, the essential oils (EOs) obtained from organic aromatic herbs and spices are gaining interest for their potential as preservatives. The organic Thymus capitatus, which are common in Libya and widely used in the meat industry, could be used as antibacterial agents in food preservation. The aims of this study were to determine or evaluate the good safe dose can be added to soft drinks. Thyme plant is one of the natural plants that have Aromatic Perfumes liked by human being, and one of the natural resources that sought by lot of researcher sand scientists to use it in scientific research and studies of perfumes and pharmaceuticals and used as flavour in making a lot of industrial products. Components of thyme oil sold as a spice in the Libyan market extracted by steam distillation, the ratio of aromatic volatile of thyme oil was 2.548% and specific gravity up to 0.9609, while the optical refractive index 1. 5111 where thyme oil extracted will be used as input in some food products for human consumption, the study required conduct some laboratory experiments with respect to toxicity to find the dose that kills 50% of the experimental animals, and then to prove that it has no damage when used repeatedly, in this study, the dose that kills 50% of mice and minimal dose lethal to all mice and maximum non-lethal dose was reached, the use of Libyan volatile thyme oil because of its great and direct relationship, especially its use in the manufacture of soft drinks, we are confident now that the use of 0.1 ml of thyme oil to prepare 1 liter of soft drink for human consumption is safe even if used repeatedly by man every day, and the dose reached was 3.84 mg, which killed 50% of mice, weighing 25 grams. This experiments was conducted at faculty of Medicine in Libya.

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