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Lamiaceae - winter savory, Spanish savory, white thyme, Winter-Bohnenkraut

Small semi-woody deciduous shrub, 20-40cm high, native to South Europe; cultivated as spice; flowers white, 7-10mm long.

Used as spice to flavour bean soup, salads, meat and mushrooms and to reduce flatulence. „Winter savory has been purported to have antiseptic, aromatic, carminative, and digestive benefits.“ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Savory

„The chemical composition of Satureja montana, L. subsp. montana, and S. montana, subsp. variegata, (Host.) P.W. Ball, oils obtained from ten ecologically different locations in Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina were investigated by TLC and GC. The oil content varied from 0.66% to 1.47%. Substantial variations in relative concentrations of individual components were also noticed. The main component found in the oils was carvacrol (5.58–84.19%). The thymol content was quite low (0.45–2.84%) in most samples except for two, where it was significantly higher (8.01–13.61%). Cluster analysis and principal component analysis revealed the presence of four distinct chemotypes; however, the results obtained suggested that essential oil composition was not a useful chemotaxonomic character to partition between S. montana, subsp. montana subsp. variegata.“
[Comparison of the essential oil composition of two subspecies of Satureja montana. Kustrak, Danica, et al. Journal of Essential Oil Research Vol.8 (1), 1996, 7-13]

„Twenty-one compounds were identified in the essential oil without fractionation, representing 97.4% of the total oil. The major compound was phenolic monoterpene thymol (45.2%). Other important compounds were monoterpenic hydrocarbons p-cymene (6.4%) and γ-terpinene (5.9%) and oxygen-containing compounds carvacrol methyl ether (5.8%), thymol methyl ether (5.1%), carvacrol (5.3%), geraniol (5.0%) and borneol (3.9%).“
[Chemical composition and in vitro evaluation of antioxidant effect of free volatile compounds from Satureja montana L. Radonic, Ani, and Mladen Milos. Free radical research, Vol.37 (6), 2003, 673-679]