Description
Latin Name: Pterocarpus indicus Willd.
Parts of Extraction: Wood
Appearance:Purple powder
Description About Red Sandalwood Powder
Summary Red sandalwood is a magnificent tree whose trunk has an attractive natural food colorant. The tree is very important in Ayurvedic therapy because of its medical significance. Red sandalwood is a large, attractive deciduous tree. It grows to over 10 m in height with a well-developed trunk and branches. Both the wood and the fruit are considered medicinally important. Small pieces of the wood have a good claret red color due to the natural pigment. The santalins are generally required to be in the form of a solid crystal powder. For trade purity, the absorbance measurement at 475 nm should not be less than 1 when the crystal powder is made into a 0.01 percent solution in ethanol. Red sandalwood extract is used as a natural color in foods and alcoholic beverages. The unrefined color has always been used in India.
Santalin, Deoxysantalin are the main parts of the sandalwood red. It is absolute a natural pigment abstracted from the claret-colored xylem of Pterocarpus santalinus by modern biotechnology.Widely used in the dyeing of wool and chinlon as reddish violet coloring.
Packaging:cardboard drums, with double aseptic food poly bags inside. Or by cartons, with vacual aseptic food poly bags inside, 20kgs per carton with 8 bags inside,2.5kg per bag.
