Production liberalization for aloe industry

At present, the aloe production internationalization trend is obvious.There are two main aspects, one is the internationalization of production and sales,another is International Aloe product positioning.


Aloe product development has the following characteristics:

• The development of aloe primary products with wide applicability has become increasingly complete.

  In Japan, in addition to aloe cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, health care products, with the development of aloe tea, aloe juice, aloe juice, aloe vera, all kinds of West Point aloe sandwiches, aloe wine, aloe, aloe fry beef fillet and other products,  that is to say the aloe product range everything. This product technology content is not high, but with  wide applicability , closly contact with daily life.

• The development of the whole leaf aloe vera products attention.

  For example, the United States has the whole leaf aloe capsule, aloe leaf juice. Japan has a whole leaf aloe medicine etc..

• The aloe product with strong development in large scale, appearing social development day by day.This is obviously reflected in enriched with aloe vera products (in the United States alone, there are more than 1500 kinds of aloe products). 

  Aside from  the company's headquarters has huge development system, there are relevant agencies to work jointly. eg. Aloe Corp company and IASC, aloe Research Foundation and some university cooperation, so that, in the maintenance of a broad area of development at the same time, on the one hand, saving a lot of development funds, on the other hand also can keep abreast of the latest information to research and development, effective to help the company marketing decision.

Green tea extract in food application

Green tea extract is the active ingredient extracted from green tea leaves, including tea polyphenol. Tea polyphenols as a natural anti oxidants has been widely used in the food industry.

The  using standard provisions of China food additives, tea polyphenols can be used for oil, moon cakes, ham and other food,with the dosage of 0.4g/kg. Using method is the firstly to be soluble in ethanol, citric acid with the addition of solution, and then sprayed or added for food.

• Meat product

Meat and meat products in the preservation period often for the fat auto oxidation turned yellow and flavor. In meat processing, a variety of meat products  soaked or sprayed by  prepared tea polyphenols solution, can form a layer of impermeable epidural, achieving good effect of growth and prevent the spoilage of meat products inhibit oxidation rancidity and bacterial surface.

• Edible vegetable oils and animal fats

Animal fat for the absence of natural antioxidants, easily metamorphism. Tea polyphenols can prevent and delay the unsaturated automatic fatty acid oxidation and decomposition, extend the storage period.

• Fried food

Tea polyphenols have antioxidant effect on fried food, can delay the oxidative rancidity phenomenon, improve food shelf life.

• Baked food

The production of moon cakes or other oily food,adding tea polyphenol compounds in flour and oil  mixed goods  , not only can anti-corrosive, but  maintain the nutrition and enhance food flavor.

• Aquatic products

In the production of dried fish products, water immersion water products containing tea polyphenols, can prevent dry fish for Oil Burning who cause yellow and lipid oxidation. In the frozen fish, tea polyphenol preparation to join, also can make better effect of preservation of fish.

• Drinks

Tea polyphenols can be used to prepare various kinds of tea beverages, applied to a variety of alcoholic beverages, milk, soft drinks, juice,and inhibit the beverage such as vitamin A and vitamin C damage, to protect the nutrients in beverage.

•  candy food:

tea polyphenol application to chewing gum, candy, fruit sugar candy, can effective antioxidant and preservative, solid color solid fragrance, clear bad breath function. In addition, tea polyphenols can also make the sugar in food Acid Tail disappear, make the taste sweet and cool.

The biggest market for natural extracts—North American

The consumption of extract in America market is about $2.8 billion in 2005. The Canadian plant material market is constantly expanding. American is the world's last plant medicine national identity.

  American formulated the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act in 1994, the definition of Dietary Supplements include Herbs and Other Plants and its Any Concentrate, there is no doubt that this was determined by plant extracts as the legal status of dietary supplements.

  The 2000 edition of Pharmac Opoeia American collected plant drugs including 20 extracts (containing vegetable oil, aromatic oil) . America is one of the countries consume most of the world's plant extract.

  At present, American of standard extract does not formulate specific regulations, but many USA large pharmaceutical factory has its own strict quality requirements of standard extract, and they are also more sensitive to the price.

  USA ingredients 70% rely on imports from abroad, the product is the raw herbs or extracts, the extract with single medicine based, for example made of Ginkgo biloba, Green Tea, soybean isoflavone, angelica, Siberian Ginseng Extract and other herbal extracts.

  American Food Encyclopedia carrieson the investigationto the 2000 health food store, the results show that in order to extract usedas type accounted for 7.4%. In 1992, American plant drug sales were $1.2 billion, to $7 billion in 2005,the average annual growth rate of more than 10%.

Sell capacity of Herb and Herb products from 1997~2003:

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nutragreenlife ,the strong market of plant extract

The global plant extract sales amounted to $6.5 billion in 2008 , annual growth rate of the market is about 20%. Recent years in the scope of the world, especially Europe and the United States and other developed countries and regions , the plant extract demand is steady growth.

• American Market

  American is the world's largest plant medicine market. According to statistics, America spends about $6 billion per year for the nutritional health food products, and the market with nearly 20% of the annual rate of increase.

  At present the plant extracts in USA sales on the market can be divided into two categories,one category is the standard extract,  such extracts  usually have clear, uniform quality standards, and molecular biology research of perfect system, such as Ginkgo biloba extract (24% of flavonoids of Ginkgo biloba, 6% of ginkgo lactone). Another kind is the plant crude extract, this extracts often only have extraction ratio without general clear standards, such as the Equisetum extract.

  Plant extracts American herbal market accounted for more than 95%, raw medicinal herbs and other products accounted for less than 5%. In recent three years, China on USA export plant extract total export volume of 20-30%,demanding for larger varieties of ginkgo, hypericum Alice Lin, soybeans, ginseng.

• Europe Market

Europe to plant extracts as raw materials of botanical drug products  into more widespread,which is currently the world's largest plant medicine market, accounting for 45% in the global plant drug market , the market size of more than $10 billion  in 2005. Europe is the world's largest cosmetics, health food production and market research and development center.

Since 1995, the European market growth picture of plant extract has been a relatively high degree . The annual growth rate in more than 10% among most countries.Individual countries  even as high as 16% (such as the United Kingdom, Holland). The fastest growing plant extract of herbal medicine has three kinds, firstly,   health care medicine with prevention effects, such as garlic, ginseng.Secondly, the old products recognized by  the medical institutions , such as the treatment of insomnia and take leave of one's senses products. Thirdly,the old products discovered of new therapeutic effects,such as evening primrose oil and extract of Ginkgo biloba. European governments and academic circles with a positive attitude towards the plant extract,Strengthen research on plants and traditional medicines, medicinal plants with ginkgo as representative's popularity.

• Asian Market

Asian plant extracts market mainly refers to Japan, South Korea and China, at present the market size of about US $3 billion, accounting for 15% of Chinese. Japan and South Korea are the main plant extracts  export countries of China . Japan, South Korea's source of plant extracts from traditional Chinese medicine, the beginning of the last century 70's, Japan, South Korea respectively, vigorously develop the Kampo medicine and Korean medicine, Kampo medicine and Korean medicine from traditional Chinese medicine.

Japan's existing Hanfang pharmaceutical companies more than 200, among them, the largest manufacturers is a Jin Village Corporation, its output accounts for 70% of the total Japanese Kampo formulations, followed by small taro Hanfang Pharmaceutical Co. ltd.. Japanese Kampo formulations has more than 20,000 kinds of species. Japanese Hanfang pharmaceutical mostly by GMP. Korea pharmaceutical scale ranked tenth in the world, Chinese medicine factory 80, accounting for 22.2% of the total number of all Chinese and Western pharmaceutical factory. On the other hand, the developed countries the production line of raw material medicine gradually to the Asian migration, promote the development of Asian plant extracts industry.