Sweet limes are used for many purposes for example it is suitable for eating and contains amount of oil includes peel oil as well as juice oil and they are volatile in nature. It contains high amount of ascorbic acid (Sandhu & Minhas, 2006)
and its juice is used as a sweet drink in summer. Limonene (60.17%) was the most abundant terpene, followed by gamma- terpinene (11.80%), terpinolene (2.96%), beta-pinene (2.08%), linalool (1.85%), р- cymene (1.38%), geranial (1.33%) and alpha-terpineol (1.28%). The remaining terpenes amounted to 1% found in the peel oil of the sweet lime (Abdul et al., 1992)