The classical variant of the "Isolation of trimyristin from nutmeg" is easily performed. For an extraction of a product from natural sources the yield depends heavily on the quality of the biological raw material and thus cannot be evaluated easily. The purity of the product is very high.

Likewise mass efficiency and energy efficiency cannot be easily evaluated because they depend on the yield.

Although (eco)toxicological data are not sufficient for an evaluation of educt and product, acute or chronic toxicity cannot be reasonably expected, because the educt has been used as a spice for hundreds of years and the product is usable as a foodstuff. The known toxicity of nutmeg is not based on its trimyristin content. Sufficient (eco)toxicological data are available for the solvents used in extraction and recrystallization. The usual elution solvent in the thin layer determination of trimyristin n-hexane has been replaced by cyclohexane which is not neurotoxic and has a similar polarity. The acute toxicity of educt, product and the used solvents is relatively low .

With the exception of the solvents tert-butyl methyl ether and cyclohexane which are biologically not easily degradable, all substances used or produced in the experiment exhibit a low environmental persistence. Also the toxicity to aquatic organisms is only low or medium.

Summed up we evaluate this experiment with an average economic efficiency and low (eco)toxicological risks as well as a low environmental persistence for most of the substances with the "green light".