Auraptene quantities in Tanaka's 77 Citrus species (including 14 varieties
and cultivars), 5 Fortunella species, one Poncirus species, 27 hybrids betw
een Citrus species, and 51 intergeneric hybrids between Citrus and Poncirus
have been evaluated. The genus Citrus has been divided into eight groups.
Auraptene is found in all of the species of Cephalocitrus group, a part of
the species of Aurantium group, and most of the species of Osmocitrus group
. The Citrus species contain a small amount of auraptene in the juice sacs
compared with in the peels except for Henka mikan (C. pseudoaurantium), Ich
ang lemon (C. wilsonii), and a Hassaku (C. hassaku)-pummelo hybrid (Okitsu
No. 39), which contain large quantities of auraptene in their juice sacs (0
.23, 0.52, and 0.14 mg/g, respectively). The Hong Kong wild kumquat (F. hin
dusii) alone contains auraptene in Fortunella species. All of the Citrus-tr
ifoliate orange (P. trifoliata) hybrids as well as the trifoliate orange co
ntain a large quantity of auraptene in both the peel (16.57-0.51 mg/g) and
the juice sac (10.32-0.15 mg/g). These hybrids are almost inedible. The Iyo
(C. iyo)-trifoliate orange hybrid (IyP269) is edible and contains aurapten
e in the peel (1.49 mg/g) and in the juice sac (1.73 mg/g). Citrus fruit pr
oducts, for example, brand-named grapefruit juice and marmalade, retain abo
ut 0.1 mg and 0.3 mg/100 g of auraptene, respectively.