[straight news network Beijing March 28 hearing] (and hearing) along with the improvement of living standards and health awareness enhancement, more and more concerned about people the food and drug safety green, health care function of, natural and healthy plant extract product by more and more consumers welcome and respected, continues to expand the scale of the market, to 2013 the global plant extract sales has exceeded $540 billion, and still maintain a rapid growth rate. To jointly promote the national industrial policy support, market demand, industry gradually standardize the release of favorable factors such as plant extracts, the industry is very promising.

, an overview of plant extracts plant extracts is to plant as raw material, product use according to extract, by physical and chemical extraction and separation process, directed to obtain, and concentration plant of one or more active ingredients and does not change the its effective component structure, eventually formed products. According to the different components, plant extracts can be divided into glycosides, acid, polyphenol, polysaccharide, terpenoids, flavonoids, alkaloids and other categories; according to the different characters of the products, vegetable oil, extract, powder, lens category.

A variety of plant extracts, has now entered the industrial extraction has reached more than 300, it is a kind of very important intermediates, which is widely applied in the fields of can for pharmaceutical raw materials, and can be used for health care products, nutritional supplements, food additive, cosmetics and other industries.

Second, plant extracts industry development in the 20th century in the early 1980s, basically complete the industrialization of Europe and the United States and other developed countries set off a trend of returning to nature, people of side effects of chemical synthesis products concern and exclusion is gradually increased, to natural and safe plant provided extract favor regression and greatly respected, the industry should potential rise. In 1994, the United States promulgated the "dietary supplement health and Education Act", formally recognized by the use of plant extracts as a food supplement, the plant extract industry has developed rapidly.

China's traditional Chinese medicine has a long history, medical personnel attention to the analysis of the characteristics and properties of plants. To 1970s, the domestic part of the pharmaceutical plant began to use mechanical equipment to extract plant ingredients, but this is only as a manufacturing process of medicine, has not developed into an independent industry. After the middle of the 90's, with the deepening of the degree of opening up, foreign trade began to flourish, the policy of less control of the plant extract industry began to develop.

Since twenty-first Century, the plant extract industry has entered the golden era. The source to enhance the improvement of living standard and health awareness led the people's strong demand of plant extracts products; on the other hand benefit to plant more advanced extraction technology (such as enzymatic extraction, ultrasonic extraction, supercritical fluid extraction, microwave extraction, membrane separation technology and other new application, greatly improve the production efficiency. 3

(original title: natural plant extract industry market scale is constantly expanding)

Editor: Chen Feng

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