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====== Badian ====== | ====== Badian ====== | ||
+ | ==== Star Anise ==== | ||
What is badian called in the culinary arts? The star anise. This plant' | What is badian called in the culinary arts? The star anise. This plant' | ||
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+ | ==== Aniseed oil ==== | ||
+ | Aniseed oil is distilled from the fruit and shoots of badian and added to liqueurs. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Adulteration ==== | ||
+ | Anise oil is adulterated with badian oil, fennel oil, and synthetic anethole. Adulteration with fennel oil is easily detected by the polarimetric method (it is right-handed). The torsion of badian oil reaches +1°. Detection of adulteration is enabled by Driessen-Mareeuw and Dávida reactions. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Poisoning fish ==== | ||
+ | The toxic seeds of badian are used to poison fish. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Documented insecticides ==== | ||
+ | The plants were also the raw material for the first documented insecticides in 2nd century BC China. [([[https:// | ||
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