The Sweet Orange Oil that we offer is widely used in the world over as a flavoring agent. Extracted from orange trees that are native to China, this oil has also insect repelling properties. Further, our Sweet Orange Oil is much recommended because of its particular health benefits. Orange (Citrus sinensis) is a citrus fruit and a hybrid of pomelo and mandarin orange. Relative ratio of sugar and acid determines the taste of the orange and the aroma is governed by volatile organic compounds like alcohols, ketones, terpenes, esters, etc. Orange juice is pulpy in nature with a pH of 2.9–4. Orange is a rich source of vitamin C along with potassium, carotenoids, flavonoids, and other phytoactive compounds. However, like most of the citrus juices orange contains a huge amount of pectin (Qaid et al., 2017). Hence, orange being a highly pectinous fruit is usually depectinized prior to MSP.

There is some argument, but it is believed that sweet orange was brought to Europe by the Arabs in the First century along with the bitter orange. It is a middle-sized evergreen tree, covered with bark of a greenish-brown color, having auxiliary spines on the branches. The leaves are alternate, ovate-oblong, acute, shining green, the stalk winged. The blood orange has streaks of red in the fruit, and when squeezed the juice is often reddish. Its red pigment, anthocyanin, is an antioxidant that in rear in the rest of the citrus family. A recently hybridized orange, it was cultivated in china and the southern Mediterranean in the early 18th century. The tree which are widely cultivated today are the Moro, Toracco, and sanguinello.