Beta-ionone derives its vegan and vegetarian status from plants, acetone, citral, bacteria.
| Vegan? Yes | Vegetarian? Yes |
Classifications are made based on the available commercial supply of the ingredient, and are made based on the criteria on our classifications page.
Commercially available beta-ionone is vegan and vegetarian.
Beta-ionone is an aromatic compound found in essential oils. It is used as a fragrance in cosmetics and is an important precursor to make retinol, a form of vitamin A. It can be extracted from plants, synthesized from acetone or citral, or produced via fermentation.
Sources
- Paparella, A., Shaltiel-Harpaza, L., & Ibdah, M. (2021). β-Ionone: Its Occurrence and Biological Function and Metabolic Engineering. Plants, 10(4), 754.
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10040754 - Bonrath, W., Gao, B., Houston, P., McClymont, T., Müller, M.-A., Schäfer, C., Schweiggert, C., Schütz, J., & Medlock, J. A. (2023). 75 Years of Vitamin A Production: A Historical and Scientific Overview of the Development of New Methodologies in Chemistry, Formulation, and Biotechnology. Organic Process Research &Amp; Development, 27(9), 1557–1584.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.3c00161 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionone
- https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/I2-Ionone#section=Use-Classification