Hazelnut Kernel Oil

INCI name:

Corylus avallena L.

Part used:

Nult

Extraction method:

Cold pressing

CAS No.:

N/A

Origin:

France, Spain
Physical Data and Chemical Properties

Appearance 

Pale yellow oily liquid

Odour

Hazelnut characteristic smell, no peculiar smell

Relative Density(20℃)

0.906~0.919

Refractive index(20℃)

1.4710~1.4750

Peroxide value (%):

≤5

Moisture and volatile matter(%):≤0.1

Soap change value:

188-195


Description

Corylus avellana, the common hazel, is a species of hazel native to Europe and western Asia, from the British Isles south toIberia, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, north to central Scandinavia, and east to the central Ural Mountains, the Caucasus, and northwestern Iran.



across, softly hairy on both surfaces, and with a double-serrate margin. The flowers are produced very early in spring, before the leaves, and are monoecious with single-sex wind-pollinated catkins. Male catkins are pale yellow and 5–12cm long, while female catkins are very small and largely concealed in the buds with only the bright red 1–3mm long styles visible. The fruit is a nut, produced in clusters of one to five together, each nut held in a short leafy involucre ("husk") which encloses about three quarters of the nut. The nut is roughly spherical to oval, 15–20mm long and 12–20mm broad (larger, up to 25mm long, in some cultivated selections), yellow-brown with a pale scar at the base. The nut falls out of the involucre when ripe, about 7–8 months afterpollination.




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