Description
Botanical Name:Curcuma longa L.
Appearance: Saffron yellow fine powder
Detection method:HPLC
Active ingredient: Curcumin
Specification: 0.3%curcumin,tumerone
Function:
(1) Mainly used as flavor additive to pigments and foods
(2) It also has a good performances such as anticancer, anti, inflammatory antioxidation, antimutagenics, Lipoidemia reducing and etc.
(3) Now it is used as a food coloring since it normally protects food (slightly yellow color) from sunlight.
(4) The curcumin/polysorbate solution or curcumin powder dissolved in alcohol is used for water-containing products. Over-coloring, such as in pickles, relishes, and mustard, is sometimes used to compensate for fading.
Application:
1. Reducing blood fat, antioxidant, resisting inflammation, resistance to atherosclerosis, etc. People found that curcumin can inhibit HIV – 1 integrase activity and used in AIDS clinical trials in 2004.
2. Anticancer
The curcumin of curry with antioxidant effect can restrain amyloid plaque to form in the brain, so as to reduce the risk of developing alzheimer’s disease.
Product Description:
Turmeric Root is one of the most widely used herbs for joint support, it is commonly combined with ginger. Although best known as a spice that gives a distinctive flavor and yellow color to curry powder and mustard, turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a member of the ginger family and has long been used for healing.
Turmeric Rhizome Extract is a herbaceous perennial plant of the ginger family, which is native to southwest India. Curcumin, a substance in turmeric, may help to reduce inflammation and treat upset stomach, scabies, diabetes, HIV, uveitis and viral infections. Several studies suggest that it might ease symptoms of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, like pain and inflammation. Other preliminary lab studies show that curcumin or turmeric might protect against types of skin diseases, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, colitis, stomach ulcers, and high cholesterol. Moreover, in lab tests, curcumin seems to block the growth of certain kinds of tumors. Due to its antibacterial properties, it may both be taken orally to fight various infections and applied to the skin where has infected wounds or bites.
In August 2012, the researchers in George Mason University found that curcumin is a broad-spectrum inhibitors to prevent a series of virus infect health cells.
(1). Curcumin can be used as medicines’ raw materials for fighting inflammation, mainly used in pharmaceutical field;
(2). Curcumin can be used as products for regulating menstruation, mainly used in health product industry, dietary supplement ingredient;
(3). Curcumin can be used as pigments, food additives of seasoning, mostly used in cosmetic industry;
(4). Used as a pH indicator, pH 7.8 (yellow) – 9.2 (red brown).
