Plant extracts to adopt appropriate solvents or methods, from plant (all or a part of) for the extraction of raw materials or processed material, can be used in the pharmaceutical industry, food industry, health stesweet stevia industry, cosmetic industry and other industries.
Plant extracts is plant as raw material, based on the needs of the use of extraction of the final product, through physical and chemical process of extraction and separation, directional obtain and concentration of one or more active ingredients in plants, and not to change its effective component structure and formation of the product. According to the different extraction plant ingredients, forming glucoside, acids, polyphenols, polysaccharide, terpenoids, flavonoids, alkaloids, etc; According to the characteristics of different, can be divided into vegetable oil, extract, powder, lens, etc. Market supply and demand, there are many different varieties, plant extracts of these products over the year, and all kinds of market supply and demand factors changing, the situation of the imbalance between supply and demand.
(1) product supply impact due to raw materials for agriculture and forestry products, plant extracts industry easily affected by factors such as weather, plant diseases and insect pests, planting area, the number of the naringenin price purchase price of raw material and different years will fluctuate, the price fluctuation of raw materials made of natural plant extracts product price, the production will have a certain degree of change, market supply and demand imbalance. (2) the market demand, most production enterprises limited understanding of overseas market demand, market demand is likely to lack of scientific and accurate judgment for a long time. When a good product market demand, in the short term there will be a tight market imbalance, but as the spread of market information, a large number of enterprises set will repeat production, lead to products supply.
Product development, according to data in the first half of 2014, China's 1074 companies export plant extracts products, with the same period in 2013 export enterprises compared to a slight increase in number. Among them, the private enterprise exports accounted for as high as 50.4%, far ahead, the biggest contribution. Followed by foreign-funded enterprises accounted for 35.4%. Plant extracts industry development in our country is less than 20 years, many plant extracts private enterprises under the condition of lack of "care" growth, in dealing with the financial "tsunami" again and again to a growing challenge.
In the new medical model, under the influence of the activity of functionality or plant extract products popular. At present, plant extracts industry development faster and faster, more than pharmaceuticals market growth, become independent of emerging industry. With the rise of plant extracts in the world market, China's plant extracts industry will become a new strategic turmeric extract powder pillar industry for national economic and social development.
Volatile oil, also known as essential oils, is with aroma and volatile oily liquid, by a mixture of a variety of compounds, physiological activity, on health care has the function of many sided, such as cough, asthma, sweating, nourish, expectorant, flooding wind, analgesia, antibacterial, etc. Medicinal plant volatile oil content in the relatively rich arborvitae, magnolia bark, magnolia flower, camphor tree, cinnamon evodia rutaecarpa, radix angelicae, rhizoma ligustici wallichii, angelica, mint, etc.
A mixture of tannin polyphenol class. Exists in many kinds of plants, especially in salicaceae, fagaceae, polygonaceae, rosaceae, leguminosae, myrtle and rubiaceae is found in plants. On the medicinal plant poison sumac of gall medicine gallnut, contain gallotannin, has the effects of convergence, antidiarrheal, stop sweat.
Other ingredients such as sugars, amino acids, proteins, enzymes, organic acids, oil, wax, resin and pigment, inorganic and so on, each has special physiological functions, many of which were clinically important drug.
Comprehensive national legislation category and concept and usage, plant extracts the concept can be accepted and approved, and dissemination of herbs in the various countries' general common expression. Exports of plant extracts pumpkin seed extract as early as 1999 in the more than traditional exports. In the European and American countries, plant extracts and its products (plant medicine or food supplements), has a broad market prospect, has developed into the annual sales of nearly $8 billion of emerging industries.