licorice root extract 98% Monoammonium Glycyrrhizinate/Licorice extract Glycyrrhizinate powder,China WWBB price supplier

What is Licorice Extract?

Licorice extract is the active principle of liquorice root. It is a powerful sweetener, 3050 times as potent as sucrose (table sugar).

Chemically, licorice extract is a triterpenoid saponin glycoside being either the Ca2+ or K+ salt of glycyrrhizic (or glycyrrhizinic) acid. Upon hydrolysis, the licorice root extract loses its sweet taste and is converted to the aglycone glycyrrhetinic acid plus two molecules of glucuronic acid. The acid form is not particularly water soluble, but its ammonium salt is soluble in water at pH greater than 4.5.

Although sweet, the taste of licorice extract is different from that of sugar. The sweetness of licorice extract glycyrrhizin has a slower onset than sugar, and lingers in the mouth for some time. Additionally, its characteristic licorice flavor makes it unsuitable as a direct flavor substitute for sugar. Unlike the artificial sweetener aspartame, licorice extract glycyrrhizin maintains its sweetness under heating.

Main Function

1,Licorice extract is used as antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral and promoting the immune system;

2,Licorice extract has effect on clearing heat and detoxicating, expectorant and trating cough and epigastric abdominal;

3,Licorice extract has the function of treating AIDS;

4,Licorice extract with the function of benefiting stomach, treating weakness of stomach, lassitude, shortness of breath. 

5, Treatment of peptic ulcer

6, Masks the unpleasant flavor of medicines

7,Relieves cough

8, Promotes the ejection of mucus or exudates from the lungs, bronchi and tracheas

9,anti-inflammatory and co-emulsifier to treat skin disorders and in cosmetics.

Specification of Licorice Extract ---- glabridin 90% by HPLC

Application

1,Applied in the food field, it has become a new raw material which used in food and Beverage industry;

2, Applied in the health product field;

3, Applied in the pharmaceutical field.