Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Safrole also known as shikimol is a phenylpropene. It is a colorless or slightly yellow oily liquid typically extracted from the root-bark or the fruit of sassafras plants in the form of sassafras oil (although commercially available culinary sassafras oil is usually devoid of safrole due to a rule passed by the FDA in 1960) or is synthesized from catechol or other related methylenedioxy compounds.
