Plant extracts are used in a wide range of scenarios, including natural pigments, natural sweeteners, functional plant extracts, traditional Chinese medicine extracts, plant essential oils in food, additives, special food and health food, daily chemical and cosmetic applications, formula granules and apis.
Natural pigment
With plant roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits as the initial raw materials, with appropriate solvents, through separation, refining, drying and other processes to produce organic matter. This organic matter is called plant extract natural pigment. At present, the main natural pigments on the market are capsicum red pigment, marigold extract, gardenia yellow pigment, curcumin and other 40 kinds.
Natural sweetener
Products derived from natural plants and processed naturally synthetic sweet ingredients are often called natural sweeteners. According to its sweetness, it can be divided into sucrose, beet sugar and other low-intensity sweeteners, and stevia, momorrhodoside, sweet tea side, licorice extract, neohesperidin dihydrochalone and other high-intensity sweeteners. It is the mainstream trend of food and beverage industry to replace sugar with natural high sweetness sweetener.
Functional plant extract
At present, there are 27 main health functions claimed by health food, among which plant extracts are included:
Enhance immunity: ginseng extract, cordyceps extract.
Aid to reduce blood lipid: Tartary buckwheat extract, dandelion extract.
Auxiliary hypoglycemic: bitte