ESSENTIAL OILS AS PROMISING NATURAL COMPOSITIONS FOR THE FOOD INDUSTRY
The number of BAS and their mixtures excreted by mankind from the natural resources of our planet is steadily increasing. Marine hydrobionts, for example, as well as terrestrial plant organisms are particularly useful in this respect. Among the latter, a separate group is the essential oil plants, which produce natural complex mixtures called essential oils (hereinafter referred to as "EO"). These mixtures are ascribed a very wide range of useful properties, due to which EMs can be used in medicine, perfumery and in the food industry. In this article, essential oils are considered as a natural source of BAS and the possibilities of their use in the food industry. Laboratory tests have been carried out to refute the adulteration of an existing sample of Artemísia vulgáris essential oil (determination of organoleptic quality indicators, as well as the content of foreign impurities of various nature).