What kinds of plant extracts are there?
With the improvement of people's living standards, the awareness of health has also increased, and people are more favored by natural plant ingredients, and the plant extract industry has also developed and grown. So what is plant extract?
To put it simply, use is to use natural plants as raw materials to obtain a certain natural ingredient through a series of complex extraction processes, which can be used in many industries such as medicine and health care, cosmetics, and food.
Plant extracts have complex classifications. We can answer questions according to their functions and divide them into the following categories:
Natural pigments: such as curcumin, lycopene, betaine, etc., can be used in the food and beverage industry
Flavoring agents: Many sweeteners commonly used in our food are derived from plants, such as mogroside, stevioside, etc.
Medicinal ingredients: such as artemisinin, camptothecin, triptolide, rotundone and other products with medicinal effects
Supplement ingredients: ingredients that have certain health effects on the body, such as prebiotic inulin, FOS, glucomannan, soy oligosaccharides, etc.