Almost 38 million metric tons of oranges are harvested around the world each year from Brazil, California, China, Corsica, Cyprus, Egypt, Florida, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Portugal, Sicily and Spain. Although many of these countries produce sweet orange essential oil, Brazil and the USA are by far the largest exporters.
Extraction: Extraction of sweet orange essential oil is by cold expression of the rind, which yields an orange-yellow or orange-brown oil.