Clove oil has high medicinal value and broad market prospects

Clove oil refers to the volatile plant essential oil extracted from the clove plant, which has the special aroma of clove. Clove oil has a sweet, pungent taste and is hot in nature. It has the effect of warming the stomach and kidneys. It is often used to treat symptoms such as stomach cold and vomiting, bad breath, toothache, paralysis, and watery diarrhea. It has high medicinal value.

The upstream of the clove oil industry chain is mainly the raw material supply layer. Cloves are the main raw material for the production of clove oil. my country is a major clove growing country, and the main clove producing areas are concentrated in Hainan and Yunnan provinces. Clove oil producers in the middle reaches of the industrial chain extract and process raw materials. Downstream of the industrial chain, clove oil is widely used in fields such as food, medicine, cosmetics, flavors and fragrances.

According to the different parts of the raw materials used, clove oil can be subdivided into clove bud oil, clove stem oil and clove leaf oil. Among them, the oil yield of clove buds is the highest. Clove bud oil is mainly a yellow to clear brown fluid liquid with the characteristic aroma of medicinal, woody, spicy and eugenol. The oil yields of clove stems and leaves are both lower than Lilac buds, and the product is not as fragrant as clove bud oil. The mainstream product currently on the market is clove bud oil.

According to the “2023-2028 China Clove Oil Industry Market In-depth Research and Development Prospects Forecast Report released by the Industrial Research Center, cloves Oil production processes include distillation, solvent extraction and supercritical carbon dioxide extraction. The distillation method has the advantages of high production efficiency and low energy consumption, but the product purity is not high; the solvent extraction method dissolves the clove raw materials in a solvent and then evaporates the solvent to obtain the product, which has the advantages of high output and low cost, but A large amount of organic solvents are used in the production process, resulting in greater pressure on environmental protection; although the supercritical carbon dioxide extraction method produces products with higher purity, it has higher equipment requirements and is not conducive to large-scale production. At present, distillation is the mainstream process in my country’s clove oil market, and clove oil companies are also constantly developing new production processes.

The development of the downstream areas of the clove oil industry is strongly supported by the state. The spices and flavors industry is one of the emerging strategic industries that my country is focusing on developing. The government has successively issued policies such as the “Industrial Structural Adjustment Catalog (2019 Edition)” and the “14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Flavors and Flavors Industry” to promote the rapid development of my country’s spices and flavors industry. development, driving the expansion of the clove oil market. At the same time, with the improvement of living standards and residents’ increasing attention to health products, the market demand for natural spices such as clove oil is also increasing, which has brought development opportunities to the clove oil industry.

Industry analysts said that my country’s clove oil companies should continue to increase investment in scientific research, introduce advanced technology, carry out technological innovation, and improve product quality. and added value, establish a complete quality assurance system to ensure product safety. At the same time, attention should be paid to brand building, and by improving product quality, strengthening marketing, and expanding product visibility, we should create a brand image with its own characteristics and enhance the market competitiveness of enterprises.