Basic Info
  • Grade: Food Grade

    Factory Location: Xiamen Fujian

    Main Sales Markets: North America,Central/South America,Western Europe,Eastern Europe,Australasia,Asia,Middle East,Africa

  • Monthly Production Capacity: 10ton/year

    Packaging Information: 25kg/drum; 5kg/bag, 1kg/bag

  • Delivery Lead Time: 7 days after payment

    Sample Provided: yes

    Payment Terms: L/L

    Product Information

     

    Product name

    Marigold Flower Extract

    Active ingredient

    Lutein

    Part of plant used

    Flower

    Speicification

    Lutein : 5%,10%,20%,40%, 80% 90% by HPLC

    Zeaxanthin : 5% , 20% , 40% by HPLC

    Appearance

    Orange fine powder

     

    COA of Marigold Flower Extract

     

    ITEMS

    SPECIFICATION

    RESULT

    Appearance

    Orange powder

    Complies

    Odor and taste

    Characteristic

    Complies

    Lutein content

    ≥90.0%

    90.50%

    Zeaxanthin content

    ≥1%

    1.28%

    Loss on drying

    ≤5.0%

    3.12%

    Sulphated ash

    ≤2.0%

    1.21%

    Solvent residuals(N-hexane)

    ≤25mg/kg

    Complies

    Heavy metal

    ≤10ppm

    Complies

    Arsenic

    ≤1.0PPM

    <0.2PPM

    Cadmium

    ≤1.0PPM

    <0.05PPM

    Lead

    ≤1.0PPM

    <0.1PPM

    Mercury

    ≤0.1PPM

    <0.02PPM

    Mesh size

    100% pass 80 mesh

    Complies

    Microbiology

    Total plate count

    ≤1000cfu/g

    <1000cfu/g

    Yeast & Mould

    ≤100cfu/g

    <100cfu/g

    E.Coli

    Absent

    Absent

    Salmonella

    Absent

    Absent

    Conclusion

    Conform with specification

     

     

    Usage

     

    Lutein is a carotenoid found in vegetables and fruits. Marigold flower is one of the main source of Lutein. More than 600 types of carotenoids, only about 20 species exist in the person's blood and tissues. In the human body found in carotenoids include d a-carotene, P 1 carrot category, cryptoxanthin, lutein, lycopene, and are not flavin. Medical experiments prove that the plant contains a natural lutein is an excellent anti-oxidant in food by adding a certain amount of lutein can prevent cellular senescence and aging body organs, but can also prevent age-related macular degeneration eye due to decreased vision and blindness, through a series of medical research, carotenoids have been proposed as cancer prevention agents, life-prolonging agent, ulcers resist agent, a heart attack and coronary artery disease resistance agent. At the same time, lutein can be used as feed additives for poultry meat and eggs for coloring, but also has been in the food industry as a coloring agent with the nutrition and health care.

     

    Function of Marigold Flower Extract/Lutein
    1. Lutein prevents cellular aging and body organ aging
    2. Lutein prevent vision loss and blindness caused by corneal retinal degeneration.
    3. Lutein Protect the retina
    4. Lutein Improve cataract
    5. Lutein can Prevention of glaucoma
    6. Lutein has good effect for treating retinitis pigmentosa
    7. Lutein Prevention of breast cancer
    8. Lutein Improve heart disease.

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