Lime (Reconstitution)
Description
Commercially,
we may define two types of Lime Oil:
1)
Expressed lime oil, which can be prepared in the same way that lemon oil,
orange oil, etc. are prepared from their fruits (by hand or by machine).
2)
Distilled lime oil, which was the by-product (now often the main product) of
the juice industry, similar to distilled sweet orange oil, but not obtained in
quite the same way.
The origin
of the lime tree is not definitely known, but it is believed that the tree came
from the Far East, probably from the East Indian archipelago where it is found
on almost all the islands to South America’s Pacific coast and the jungles
inland. The tree was also brought in the opposite direction to East Africa,
Arabia, Iran (hence the name “Persian lime”), Egypt and southern Europe. It is
most likely, that the West Indian and Florida limes are descendants of lime
seeds brought to the West Indies shortly after the discovery of America. The
lime trees now grow abundantly in all these tropical and semi tropical regions,
wild, semi-wild and in a cultivated stage. Lime Oils are produced from unripe
(green) fruits together with variable amounts of semi ripe or fully ripe
(yellow) limes (distilled lime oil), or exclusively from green limes (expressed
lime oil).