PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an emulsion composition in which essential oil is emulsified to be suitable for oral ingestion.SOLUTION: An emulsion composition contains essential oil, lecithins made of lecithin or a derivative thereof, and water-soluble thickening polysaccharide. Dispersibility of essential oil in an oil side is increased with strong emulsifying power of lecithins, and thickening polysaccharide on a water phase side becomes a mesh state to quickly surround oil droplet for stabilization, so that oil-in-water type emulsion can be produced without using phase inversion temperature emulsification which requires high temperature is not used. Therefore, a volatile aroma component in essential oil can be reserved without letting it volatilize.SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2017,JPO&INPIT【課題】精油をエマルジョン化し、経口摂取に適したエマルジョン組成物の提供。【解決手段】精油と、レシチンまたはその誘導体からなるレシチン類と、水溶性増粘多糖類を含む。レシチン類の強力な乳化力により油滴側の精油の分散性を高めると同時に、水相側の増粘多糖類が網目状になって油滴を速やかに囲んで安定化させるので、高温にする転相温度乳化法を利用せずとも、水中油滴型のエマルジョンを製造できる。従って、精油中の揮発性の香気成分を揮発させずに留保できる。【選択図】 なし
