New trend in plant extract applications around the world.

Original title: Global plant extract application trend
plant extract can not only be used as a dietary supplement, in food and beverage applications are also increasing. According to innova's latest statistics, in 2019, the new categories tracked globally for plant extracts were soft drinks (13 percent), ready-to-eat meals and side dishes (10 percent), and baking (9 percent). The top five ingredients used were: rosemary extract, hop extract, onion extract, guarana extract, and rohan fruit extract.
rosemary extract - flavor agent antioxidant
plant extract used in new products in 2019 is rosemary extract. Rosemary itself is a spice with a special fragrance that is refreshing. Rosemary extract contains a variety of active ingredients such as sage acid, rosemary acid, sage phenol, not only has the antioxidant effect of traditional plant extract, to prevent oil oxidation and color change, more anti-corrosion, antibacterial and other effects. In addition, rosemary extract is still very stable at a high temperature of 240 degrees, so it can be well used in fried and baked goods.
Many plant-sourced antioxidants are either light-unstable or thermally unstable, and rosemary extracts do not have these problems, so in dietary supplements, beverages, fresh meat, and even condiments and other fields can play its natural anti-corrosion antioxidant effect, which also makes many foreign food and beverages for the middle and high-end market are added rosemary extract as flavor and antioxidants. For example, there is a soft-roasted cookie novelty whose ingredients include tonsil powder, honey, organic coconut sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, flaxseeds, etc., which are freshened only with rosemary extract; Coca-Cola's new New Blend of Rum and Whisky Coke in the UK. The strong aromas include ginger, Mexican peppers, rosemary and jasmine as the main flavor ingredients.
a hop extract - flavor
is an indispensable ingredient for brewing beer. In beer brewing, hops give the beer a refreshing aroma, a slightly bitter taste and anti-corrosion properties, and form a white and delicate rich foam, but also play a role in clarifying wheat juice. In addition, hops have excellent pharmacological effects. The research shows that polyphenols in hops have obvious antioxidant effects, and the chemical components such as serpenone andoxalone contained in hops have inhibitory effects on Bacillus tuberculosis, Staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus aureus, etc.
addition to brewing beer, some juices, sodas, kemp teas, and even snacks are adding hops to form a beer flavor. Recently, a company launched a sleeping drink, ingredients for lemon vanilla, hops and other natural herbal extracts. Hop extract can also be added to snacks, and beer-flavored fried shrimp is a casual snack made from beer with hop extract.
onion extract - flavor preservative
onion is an important flavor raw material, not only to provide a unique taste and smell, but also to stimulate appetite, help digestion. At the same time, onion extract also has antioxidant and antibacterial properties, can be used as a food preservative. Experiments have found that phenolic compounds in onions inhibit the growth of a variety of bacteria, such as wax-like spores, Staphylococcus acobacterium, vine microcosm, Liste bacteria and so on, especially food corruption-related microorganisms. Onions contain prostetin A and methyl sulfonodine, which have certain blood pressure-lowering and blood sugar-lowering effects, and can inhibit the elevation of blood lipids caused by a high-fat diet as functional food raw materials.
BlackCurrant is a carbonated beverage with a blackcurrant flavor, the main ingredients are blackcurrant, low-poly semi-lactose, onion skin extract powder, hyaluranoic acid, etc., spirulina yogurt flavoring powder allows consumers to combine different flavors of yogurt, mixed with spinach, onion extract, chia seeds, kale, and spirulina and other plant ingredients.
- Anti-fatigue Supplemental Energy
Guarana is rich in amino acids, alkaloids, a variety of minerals, denin acid, multivitamins and carbohydrates, which are beneficial to the absorption of human tissues.
Gualana extract is a substance extracted from guara's sub-factor, which contains plant caffeine that stimulates nerves gradually and slowly, stimulates long and moderate durations, is harmless to the human body, and products from other sources are usually fast-acting but short-lived. So in recent years, in the energy drinks industry, Guarana extracts have begun to gradually replace chemically synthesized caffeine.
fruit extract - sweetener
rohan fruit extract for light yellow powder to sepia dip paste. The taste is extremely sweet, 300 times sweeter than sucrose, and sweeter than sugar. Rohango, as one of the first published medicinal foods in China with the same source of expensive Chinese herbal medicine, also has a certain amount of auxiliary hypoglycemia and other health functions.
as a substitute sugar, has many advantages. First, the fruit source of Rohan fruit extract, can be prepared into Rohan fruit sweetside, Rohan fruit powder, Rohan fruit concentrate and other forms added to food and beverage, on the label can be directly marked as Rohan juice / powder, so in line with the cleaning label; No after bitter taste, can be used alone, can also be re-matched with other sweeteners to improve the taste, Rohan fruit extract also has a good water solubility, pH and thermal stability, so can be added to almost all food and beverages; Rohan fruit extract will not cause blood sugar changes and tooth decay, is an ideal natural substitute sugar, can be widely used in nutritional health care products, infant food, puffed food, seasonings and so on.
some functional beverage products add turmeric, black pepper fruit extract and sour cherry juice, and choose coconut water and rohan fruit extract as sweeteners, the product does not add sucrose.
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