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Understand the application areas of plant extracts

Release date:2023-12-11

Plant extract refers to natural plants as raw materials, through the extraction and separation process, directional acquisition and concentration of one or more active ingredients in plants, without changing the structure of its active ingredients formed products. Widely used in medicine, health products, food and beverage, condiments, dietary supplements, cosmetics and feed additives and other fields.


Food: According to the different needs of different people, different physiological conditions, as well as the principles of nutritional diet and physiological function regulation, targeted design of food formulations with different nutritional and health functions, with their own functional characteristics.

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Feed: In 2020, 12 kinds of plant extract products such as Eucommia leaf extract are listed in the "Catalog of Feed Additive Varieties". These raw materials and additives are used for animal intestinal health, immunity, etc.


Health products: memory, fatigue; Stress force; Regulate blood lipids; Gastrointestinal function; Sleep; Anemia; Protective chemical liver injury; Milk secretion; Visual fatigue; Promote lead discharge; Beauty; Hair care.


Active ingredients: Currently available from plant extracts: for example, paclitaxel. Ginsenosides, etc.


Daily chemical and cosmetics: can be used for cosmetics moisturizing, water and oil balance, skin problems and so on.


Natural pigments: The roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, etc. of widely cultivated plants are used as initial raw materials, the use of appropriate solvents for extraction, and the preparation of color organic matter through the process of separation, refining and drying. Such organic matter is called natural pigments of plant extracts. At present, there are more than 40 kinds of main natural pigments on the market, such as capsicum red pigment, marigold extract, gardenia yellow pigment, curcumin and so on.


Natural sweeteners: The products obtained by extracting and processing the sweet ingredients naturally synthesized in natural plants are usually called natural sweeteners. Such as sucrose, beet sugar, stevia glycoside, momorrhoeae glycoside, sweet tea side, licorice extract and neohesperidin dihydrochalcone and so on.