| He says lemon balm is easy to grow from seeds and contains citronellal, geraniol and geranial. |
| Terpenoids, such as neral or geranial, may be found in abundance in oil sacs located in the outer, colored or flavedo portion of the rinds of many common citrus fruits. |
| The flavour of geranial is more intense than the flavour of neral, but both have a very similar lemon flavour. |
| However through autoxidation and reaction with skin enzymes, the substance is activated and becomes the closely related allergen geranial. |
| The scope sought in the flavor industry is to selectively obtain the key citrus flavor compounds i.e., the oxygenated compounds such as neral, geranial, and decanal. |
