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Plant Extracts: natural treasures for health and beauty

2025-01-23

Plant extracts, a term that sounds very specialised, can actually be found everywhere in our daily lives. They are natural products extracted from plants with various biological functions. These extracts can be extracted and separated by physicochemical methods to obtain one or more active ingredients. 

There are a great variety of plant extracts, such as plant essential oils, saponins, alkaloids, polysaccharides, polyphenols and flavonoids. According to their biological activities, we can classify them into several categories:
Antioxidants: like Grape seed Extract, Green tea Extract and Pine bark Extract, which can help us resist free radical damage and slow down aging.
Immunomodulators: like Ginseng Gxtract, Gibberellic acid Extract and Ganoderma lucidum Extract, they can boost our immunity and help us fight diseases better.

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Those that improve cardiovascular function: like Ginkgo biloba Extract, Lotus heart Extract and Rhodiola rosea Extract, they have a good protective effect on the cardiovascular system.
Depending on the properties of the plant extracts, they have a wide range of applications in the market:
Colouring agents: such as turmeric, sumac, indigo, safflower, black bean and green walnut bark, they can be used in various industries such as food, textiles and cosmetics.
Flavouring agents: natural sweeteners such as steviol glycosides and rosmarinic acid sweeteners, which not only have an outstanding sweetness, but are also ideal substitutes for sucrose.
Medicinal and healthcare: such as Green tea polyphenol Extracts, Pine bark proanthocyanidin Extracts, and Borneol Extracts, which have a wide range of applications in the pharmaceutical and healthcare markets.
Dietary supplements and feed additives: A variety of plant extracts have been widely used as dietary supplements in the food and healthcare markets, and have also been developed as green feed additives in livestock and poultry production.

The rich components contained in plant extracts can stimulate our senses. For example, plant essential oils are concentrated volatile substances commonly used in the preparation of fragrances. While components such as saponins, alkaloids, polyphenols and flavonoids have been widely researched and shown to have a wide range of biological activities such as antioxidant, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, improving animal performance, antiviral and immune enhancement.

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In the context of the ‘big health’ era, natural plant-derived health products have become the core and key material foundation. As society's concern for food and drug safety grows, more and more attention is paid to the development and utilisation of active ingredients from natural plants. A large number of plant extracts that are safe to consume and have certain nutritional and therapeutic functions have been used as raw materials to be made into nutritional and functional foods and health foods in various ways to enter people's lives, and will play an increasingly important role.
In short, plant extracts not only have a wide range of applications in the pharmaceutical and health care market, but also play an important role in food, cosmetics, textiles and other industries. They are natural treasures in our pursuit of health and beauty, and deserve a deeper understanding and utilisation.