Oregano Essential Oil

Italian flavour that enhances your meals

Oregano Essential Oil (Origanum vulgare) is extracted by steam distilling the flowers and stems.

MARNYS® Oregano Essential Oil is a food-grade oil. Oregano is well known for giving an 'Italian touch' to Mediterranean cuisine. It is usually used to enhance the flavours of a great variety of food including pizza, pasta sauce, legumes, chillies or salads.Oregano, Origanum vulgare, belongs to the Lamiaceae (Labiatae) family. It's an evergreen plant with purple flowers and shovel-shaped, olive green leaves. Its leaves are used as a culinary condiment, either 'dry' or 'fresh', providing sensations like 'spicy', 'pleasantly bitter', 'herbaceous' and 'aromatic', among others. Two constituents of Oregano, carvacrol and thymol, contribute to the sensation of warmth in the mouth due to their action on temperature-sensitive structures.The use of oregano dates back to the Greeks and Romans who used it because of its properties both for seasoning foods and for their traditional herbology. The word Oregano derives from the classical Greek orī́ganon and from the Latin orīganum. This is a compound Greek term: óros, meaning 'mountain', and gános, meaning 'shine', so it is known as "mountain shine".