Turmeric, lutein, stevia extract, menthol, quercetin, aronia, ginkgo biloba extract, Ashwagandha Ayurvedic Extract, capsaicin, saw palmetto extract

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Introduction to Plant Extract Industry

Plant extract is a kind of product formed by plant as raw material, according to the needs of product use, through physical and chemical extraction and separation process, directional acquisition and concentration of one or more active ingredients in plants without changing their active ingredient structure. According to different components, plant extracts can be divided into glucosides, acids, polyphenols, polysaccharides, terpenoids, flavonoids, alkaloids and so on. It also can be divided into vegetable oil, extract, powder, lens and other categories according to the different properties of the product.

Lutein Powder of ECHEMI LocalMall
Stevia on ECHEMI LocalMall

Lutein Powder on stock! Lutein is highly safe, non-toxic and harmless, and with its special physiological effects, it is in line with the development direction of food additives' "natural", "nutrition" and "multifunctional", and can be used with common food additives such as vitamins and lysine. Just add it directly to the food.
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Unlike other sugar substitutes, Stevia Extract Rebaudioside A 97 is derived from a plant. It is safe to consume. It’s one of eight low and no-calorie sweeteners permitted by the FDA for use in the US food supply. All eight have been rigorously tested and reviewed.
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Policy Guide and What Changes We'll Face

The 15th Natural Extracts Innovation and Development Forum and Natural Ingredients Industry Development Forum,was held at CPhI Shanghai New International Exhibition Center on December 17, last year.

At the conference, Mr. Zhang Chengwen, the director of the Plant Extract Branch of China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Products (CCPHC), shared his speech on "The Impact of the New Epidemic on the Food Supplement Market", which explained the development trend of the food supplement and plant extract market after the epidemic, and made everyone feel confident about the future development of the nutrition and health industry.

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What changes would be brought to us under this economic model?

1) Protectionist trade policies, trade wars will be the norm for quite some time. 2) The bailout policies and flooding monetary issuance that had to be adopted will have a great uncertain impact on the economic trend after the epidemic. 3) More SOHO and surfing the internet is the new trend of people's life.

Global Market and Data: The Future of Plant Extract Industry

At the end of 2021, the epidemic has not stopped, the black swans are still flying all over the world, the world is experiencing a severe economic recession and global trade decline, and countries around the world have to ensure food safety and food reserve security first.

Which direction will the plant extract market go in 2022? What is the impact of this scenario on the nutrition and health industry? What are the future industry trends? And what are the fluctuations of uncertainty?

The global botanical extracts market reached $23.7 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach $59.4 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 16.5% from 2019 to 2025. The average growth rate of global phytoextract development over the past decade or so is around 5%. Thus, the plant extracts market is expected to grow at a high rate in the future.

The global dietary supplements market size was USD 147.8 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach USD 228.19 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 5.5%. The dietary supplements market in the U.S. is expected to be on an upward trend. By 2024, the U.S. dietary supplements market size is expected to reach USD 56.7 billion.

Market Insight: The global immune dietary supplements market is projected to be $15.1 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $22.5 billion by 2027; growing at a CAGR of 5.8% during 2020-2027.

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Top ten plant extracts on Amazon
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Except for the 27% drop in Chinese hemp oil, all other ingredients showed high growth, with the highest increase in blackcurrant, followed by South African drunken eggplant, black seed oil and saw palmetto, which all increased by more than 60%.

According to specific sales, Amazon's top 10 botanical supplement ingredients in 2021 sales are turmeric, elderberry, green superfood powder (including green grasses, leaves, fruits and vegetables and algae), mushrooms, saw palmetto, South African drunken eggplant, black seed oil, hannabis oil, blackcurrant and aronia, in that order.
Ten Hot Plant Extracts All Over the World

This special report is a combination of domestic and international market data, according to the summary of several experts of ECHEMI Group, to come up with the 2021 annual plant extract ingredients inventory. Let us enter the world of the hottest plant extracts of the year. They are turmeric, lutein, stevia extract, menthol, quercetin, aronia, ginkgo biloba extract, Ashwagandha Ayurvedic Extract, capsaicin, saw palmetto extract.

Curcumin

In 1995, the International Codex Alimentarius Commission CAC approved curcumin as a food additive. The national "Food Additive Use Standard" GB2760-2014, listed curcumin as a food additive in 2014, and it was listed by the National Health Commission in the list of Chinese herbal medicines that are both food and medicine. In the food industry, it is often consumed as a natural coloring or natural flavoring/spice.

Curcumin is extracted from turmeric, which belongs to the order basidiomycota, ginger family, and it is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches up 1 to 1.5m. Curcumin has been widely used in the food and pharmaceutical fields.

How Much Do You Know the Physiological Effects of Turmeric? The PubMed biomedical database (a search engine developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI to search biomedical literature) shows that there are more than 6,000 scientific papers on turmeric and its health benefits have been published in the last five years.

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Application of Curcumin

Food and Beverages

Dietary Supplements

In the Oral Care Industry

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Lutein

Lutein is highly safe, non-toxic and harmless, and with its special physiological effects, it is in line with the development direction of food additives' "natural", "nutrition" and "multifunctional", and can be used with common food additives such as vitamins and lysine.Lutein is an important natural pigment and natural health product, and it is a raw material of green health food.

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It's an antioxidant and can absorb short wavelength light (such as blue light, which is harmful to the eyes) because it has a polyene chain in its structure, a long-chain chromophore with conjugated double bonds, which has light-absorbing properties.

Application of Lutein

Lutein-the best product to protect your eyes

1. A carotenoid, a natural colorant or pigment 2. Food additives and health care products 3. Helps to support eyes, counteract free radical damage 4. Provide supplemental antioxidant capacity to the skin 5. Used in chicken feed to obtain a darker yellow egg yolk

The lutein market is segmented into pharmaceutical, dietary supplement, food, pet food, and animal and fish feed. The pharmaceutical market for lutein is estimated to be about US$190 million, and the nutraceutical and food categories are estimated to be about US$110 million. Pet food and other animal applications for lutein are estimated at US$175 million annually.

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Aronia is a genus of deciduous shrubs, the chokeberries, in the family Rosaceae native to eastern North America and most commonly found in wet woods and swamps.

The lesser known Aronia arbutifolia (red chokeberry) and the hybrid form of the above mentioned species called Aronia prunifolia (purple chokeberry) were first cultivated in Central and Eastern North America. In the eighteen century the first shrubs of the best-known species Aronia melanocarpa reached Europe where they were first cultivated in Scandinavia and Russia.

Antioxidant/Anti-aging
Urinary tract health

Aronia have the highest concentration of antioxidants of any fruit. This is why it is so popular. The antioxidants in the berries protect the body's cells from oxidative damage by eliminating free radicals. The abundance of antioxidants gives it a high ORAC antioxidant capacity index.
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The second major benefit of it is the maintenance of good urinary tract health. Urinary tract infections occur in the millions worldwide, with E. coli as the main causative agent, and symptoms include frequent urination, painful urination, and cloudy urine.

Improve blood circulation and blood vessels
Regulate blood pressure level
Prevention and improvement of diabetes

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Aronia can improve blood circulation, strengthen blood vessels and reduce the risk of heart disease. Free radicals are the real cause of various diseases, and wild cherry berry can prevent the formation of free radicals, thus preventing diseases, such as diabetes and other cardiovascular diseases.
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Aronia is very helpful in maintaining blood pressure at normal levels. The dark colored berries are known to prevent blood vessels from spasming and keep blood pressure away from the "danger zone". Juice or tea is highly recommended with any problems with the circulatory system and blood pressure.
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Kuzmanova SV, Belcheva A, two scholars found that wild cherry can normalize carbohydrate metabolism in diabetic patients; Jurgonski A, Juckiewicz J and other scholars showed that wild cherry can reduce the activity of maltase and sucrase in small intestine mucosa and increase the activity of lactase.

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Stevia Extract

Stevia extract does not contain any calories and is purely natural.Studies have shown that stevia extract does not affect blood sugar levels or interfere with insulin. Stevia extract does not contain any calories, which gives diabetics more flexibility in budgeting their total caloric intake and helps with weight management. Regardless of how stevia extract is consumed, it has no effect on the glycemic index GI. Stevia extract can also be used in a variety of foods and beverages, and individual uses and levels of use may vary by country. When stevia extract is used in combination with other sweeteners, there is a synergistic effect.

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Stevia Extract also called Stevioside, which is extracted by soaking the dried leaves of stevia in water, filtering to separate the liquid from the leaves and stems, and further purifying it with water or food-grade alcohol.

Export Market Distribution of Stevia Extract in 2021

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The main export markets of stevia extract in China include: Malaysia, Mexico, the United States, Japan and Hong Kong, China.

Due to the strong global market demand, coupled with the release of stevia extracts from various countries and regional markets, the export of stevia extracts in China will continue to grow strongly in recent years, and the stevia extract industry is becoming more and more concentrated, and the exports of several major production (foreign) enterprises will influence the trend of the whole industry. At the same time, more and more domestic enterprises start to go to the international market and gradually occupy a certain market share. It is believed that the future stevia extract industry will show a booming trend.

Menthol is an organic compound, more specifically a monoterpenoid, made synthetically or obtained from the oils of corn mint, peppermint, or other mints. It is a waxy, crystalline substance, clear or white in color, which is solid at room temperature and melts slightly above.

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If long-term persistence, but also to make people around you feel slurred and refreshing, there will continue to be some people to pick the shampoo containing menthol, that will make our hair deepest sense of freshness, so that we are more spiritual.

Menthol is extracted from peppermint, menthol applications or a wider range, such as mosquito repellent flower lotion will then have menthol, there are also some whitening toothpaste with menthol ingredients. If people suffering from oral problems, can use whitening toothpaste with menthol extract, so you can environmental humidity to alleviate oral problems.

Menthol and Technology

Menthol Market

After 2006, the domestic menthol industry began to develop rapidly, with market supply growth rates above 100% for 10 consecutive years, but still unable to meet the domestic market demand. 2007 Chinese menthol imports were twice as large as the previous year, rising from 3,738 tons to 7,247 tons. 2009 domestic menthol market size reached 10 billion yuan. According to the General Administration of Customs of China, in 2015, China's menthol imports reached 11,200 tons. currently, there are almost no synthetic menthol enterprises with large domestic production and advanced technology, and all domestic synthetic menthol is imported from foreign companies. Therefore, the domestic synthetic menthol industry has a huge market, at the same time, there is no large-scale natural mint planting base in China, so the research and development of synthetic menthol technology becomes more important. It can be foreseen that within a few years, China's food additives demand for menthol will be in a phase of rapid growth, and this trend will not disappear in the short term, and will continue to increase, so the production of menthol and the market will have more room for development, and its prospects are promising.

Quercetin

It has a bitter flavor and is used as an ingredient in dietary supplements, beverages, and foods. In 2010, the FDA acknowledged high-purity quercetin as GRAS for use as an ingredient in various specified food categories at levels up to 500 milligrams per serving. Quercetin is found in a wide variety of foods, including vegetables such as broccoli, asparagus, green onions, green peppers, tomatoes and red lettuce, and fruits such as apples, strawberries, grapes, blueberries, cranberries and blackcurrants.

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Quercetin is a plant flavonol from the flavonoid group of polyphenols. It is found in many fruits, vegetables, leaves, seeds, and grains; capers, red onions, and kale are common foods containing appreciable amounts of it.

Effects of Quercetin

For COVID-19 infection, quercetin combined with standard therapy may help improve early symptoms and help reduce the severity of COVID-19.

Quercetin is effective in relieving cough and asthma, reducing swelling and diuresis, clearing heat and detoxifying.

It can lower blood pressure, blood lipids, cholesterol, enhance capillary resistance, and reduce the garbage and toxins in capillaries

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Ginkgo Biloba Extract (GBE) is a class of products enriched with active ingredients extracted from the leaves of Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgo biloba L.) by using appropriate solvents as raw materials.

Various preparations made from GBE are widely used in pharmaceuticals, health products, food additives, functional beverages, cosmetics and other fields. This product is one of the most successful cases of phytomedicine (which is a traditional Chinese medicine) developed by modern science and technology.It has high medicinal value, mainly in promoting circulation, anti-oxidation, delaying aging, improving sexual performance, protecting eyesight, treating diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, etc.

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The Application: Alzheimer's disease and memory enhancement. Scientists reviewed all published high-quality studies on ginkgo and mild memory impairment and concluded that ginkgo was significantly more effective than placebo.

It is widely used in Europe to treat dementia. Ginkgo is thought to help prevent or treat these brain disorders because of its ability to increase blood flow to the brain and its antioxidant function.For the treatment of hypertension. Ginkgo biloba extract can simultaneously reduce the adverse effects of blood cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and very low density lipoprotein, reduce blood lipids, improve microcirculation, and inhibit coagulation, all of which are effective in the treatment of hypertension.

Capsaicin (8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) is an active component of chili peppers, which are plants belonging to the genus Capsicum. It is a chemical irritant for mammals, including humans, and produces a sensation of burning in any tissue with which it comes into contact. Capsaicin and several related alkaloids are called capsaicinoids and are produced as secondary metabolites by chili peppers.

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Anti-aging
Prevention of atherosclerosis
Inhibit tumors

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Capsaicin's ability to destroy free radicals is better than that of general carotenoids. If you want to enhance your antioxidant capacity, you can consume more fruits and vegetables containing capsaicin.
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Capsaicin can avoid the bad cholesterol in the blood vessels to stay on the walls of the blood vessels, to prevent the elasticity of the blood vessels and blockage, but also can effectively prevent atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases.
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University of Hawaii research points out that the carotenoids in vegetables such as chili peppers and carrots can stimulate the genes that convey messages between cells, so that the messaging system that stops because of organ cancer becomes more active and has an excellent effect on cancer prevention.

Ashwagandha Ayurvedic Extract

Ashwagandha, in fact, is a local herb native to India and is readily available. It is recognized for its significant antioxidant and immune-boosting properties. In addition, it has been used to induce sleep.

However, the use of this drug should be supervised by a physician due to possible interactions with certain types of drugs. According to scientist's research, Ashwagandha Ayurvedic Extract is as powerful, stimulating and immune boosting as ginseng in China. The South African ayurvedic extract can be combined with other plants with aphrodisiac effects (such as moringa) and processed into drugs for the treatment of male erectile dysfunction.

Interestingly, according to recent U.S. researchers have found that South Africa also has excellent sedative effect. And many American adults have difficulty sleeping at night due to excessive stress, and now the United States manufacturers of natural sleeping products (sleep products) are produced with South African intoxicating plant extract as the main ingredient, and add valerian root, daisy and some other medicinal plants with sedative effects.

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It is understood that there are at least dozens of "natural Viagra" products on the U.S. market, most of which contain the Indian export of South African drunken eggplant extract, they are selling well in the market.

Saw Palmetto Extract

Saw Palmetto Extract

Saw palmetto extract is an extract of the fruit of the saw palmetto. It is marketed as a treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia, but there is no clinical evidence that it is effective for this purpose. It is also commonly sold as a dietary supplement intended to improve symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)—also called prostate gland enlargement—which is a common condition among men as they age.

Applications

Regulating hormonal changes in the body
Maintaining prostate health
Treating hair loss
Treating male diseases
Inhibit prostatic hyperplasia
Building muscles

Plant Extract Industry

Look back and Market forecast

In 1994, the U.S. Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act was enacted, officially recognizing the use of plant extracts as a dietary supplement, and the plant extract industry grew rapidly.

Since the 21st century, the botanical extract industry has entered a golden period of development. This stems from the strong demand for plant extract products driven by the improvement of living standards and health consciousness on one hand; on the other hand, it benefits from the application of more advanced plant extraction technologies (such as enzymatic extraction, ultrasonic extraction, supercritical extraction, microwave extraction, membrane separation technology and other new), which have greatly improved the production efficiency.

Trends Forecast

Feasures of the plant extract industry (1) Continuous enrichment of product range (2) New technology and new process will be developed continuously (3) The industry quality system is gradually established and improved (4) Gradual increase of industry concentration

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Advanced extraction technology and equipment can not only significantly improve the quality of extract products, but also increase the utilization rate of raw materials, reduce raw material waste and lower production costs.

Plant Extract

Market Forecast

At present, China's plant extract industry is still in the formative stage, the concentration of the industry is not high, most of the enterprises are small in scale, lack of talent and technology, poor equipment and technology, and weak competitiveness.
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