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Plant extracts industry development status
2024-12-30
Plant extract refers to the use of plants as raw materials, in accordance with the needs of the final product, after physical and chemical extraction and separation process, directed to obtain or concentrate one or more components of plants, without changing the structure of its active ingredients and the formation of the product; according to the needs of excipients can also be made into a powder or granule with good mobility, moisture attraction, and there are a small number of liquid or oily form of the product. Application scenarios include natural colors, natural sweeteners, functional plant extracts, traditional Chinese medicine extracts, essential oils, probiotics and so on. Currently, the commonly used extraction methods include solvent extraction, ultrasonic extraction, microwave extraction and enzyme extraction, while supercritical fluid extraction and microwave-assisted extraction are being widely used as new extraction technologies.
Main components of plant extracts
Flavonoids: a class of compounds widely present in nature, about one quarter of plants contain flavonoids; due to the ketone group in its molecular structure, and its color is often yellow, so it is called flavonoids. Flavonoid compounds usually have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, Kang kinds, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and other biological activities, such as soy isoflavones, anthocyanins, tea polyphenols, and so on.
Polysaccharides: compounds composed of many identical or different monosaccharides with a or p a glycosidic bond, commonly found in plants in nature, including starch, cellulose, polysaccharides, pectin, etc. They have the effect of lowering serum cholesterol, anti-cancer and anti-tumor, immunomodulation, anti-radiation, etc., such as Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides, mushroom polysaccharides, algae polysaccharides and so on.
Glycosides: also known as ligands, are compounds made of sugar or sugar derivatives such as aminosugar, glucuronic acid and another type of non-sugar substances linked through the carbon atoms of the end groups of sugar, and different types of glycosides have different physiological activities and have various functions.
Organic acids: is a class of carboxyl-containing compounds (excluding amino acids), widely distributed in the plant kingdom, present in the flowers, leaves, stems, fruits, roots and other parts of the plant, most of them with potassium, sodium, calcium and other metal ions or alkaloids combined into the form of salts, but also combined into the presence of esters; according to the characteristics of its structure can be divided into aromatic, aliphatic and terpene organic acids of three major categories; with a strong and effective antibacterial antibacterial effect, and can promote the digestion and absorption of animals. And can promote the digestion and absorption of animals, has become one of the effective products to replace antibiotics after the ban of feed resistance, such as citric acid, lactic acid, malic acid, ascorbic acid and so on.
Benefits of Plant Extracts
Improve immunity: Natural plants contain many immunologically active components, such as plant essential oils, polysaccharides, glycosides, alkaloids, organic acids, oils, waxes, tannins, resins, phytochromes, mineral elements and so on. Natural plant extracts are not only related to a variety of immune cells, but also closely related to the production and activity of cytokines, while the effect of natural plants on the immune system is often affected by the body's factors and dosage of medication, in a bidirectional regulatory effect, which is the complexity of the natural plant immune mechanism.
Antioxidant effect: The human body and animals in the normal physiological metabolic process will continue to produce a certain amount of reactive oxygen species, the body's own antioxidant system will be able to remove excess oxygen radicals within a certain range to maintain the oxygen radicals in the body in the normal concentration of physiological range. The appropriate amount of oxygen free radicals can be involved in the body's signaling, cell division, immune response, cell autophagy and other processes, when the body is in the external stress environment, oxygen free radicals will be generated in large quantities, if the body's own antioxidant system can not be cleared in a timely manner, will lead to an imbalance in oxidation and antioxidant system, resulting in lipid peroxidation, protein degradation and DNA damage, and ultimately affect the normal physiological activities of the body.
Antimicrobial effect: Plant extracts play an important role in mediating the interaction between plants and the environment. Among the phytogenic compounds produced by plants as secondary metabolites, essential oils containing several phenols and terpenoids are the most studied compounds, which are characterized epigenetically by their strong odors, and fundamentally by the fact that the essential oils mainly target the cell membranes of foodborne and other pathogenic bacteria, leading to loss of membrane integrity and increased permeability.
Under the trend of global health environment, residents' awareness and attention to their own health and dietary conditioning is getting higher and higher, and the exclusion of chemical synthetic products with side effects is gradually rising, the demand for green, natural and non-polluting foods and medicines continues to grow, and plant extracts are getting more and more favored. According to Research and markets data, the global plant extracts market size of about $ 36.8 billion in 2022, the global plant extracts market size of about $ 40.24 billion in 2023, the market size is expected to be about $ 43.48 billion in 2024, and will grow at a CAGR of 8.27% to $ 70.19 billion in 2030. . According to the data related to Market research future, the global flavonoids market size was about USD 1.8 billion in 2022, the global flavonoids market size was about USD 1.91 billion in 2023, the market size is expected to be about USD 2.03 billion in 2024, and will grow at a CAGR of 5.47% to USD 3.11 billion by 2032 .
As the material living conditions of the population improve, after safeguarding the basic physiological needs, people begin to have a higher pursuit of high-quality health life, which will, to a certain extent, drive the growth of demand for plant extract products in the future. In addition, plant extracts are more varieties, biological activities are complex and diverse, there are still more biological activities of the mechanism of action of the research is still at a relatively basic stage. With the further exploration of its active elements by the scientific community, more new efficacy and new application scenarios of plant extracts are expected to be gradually discovered and recognized, and the industry has a greater potential for market growth in the future.