On July 23, Zhu Zhisheng, President of Xi’an Charity Association, and Zhang Hongtao, President of Xi’an Aging Health Association, went to Weinan City to inspect Shaanxi Yueda Tianrun Biotechnology Co., Ltd.(The English name is “Day Natural Biotechnology Co.,Ltd) Zhu Zhisheng,…
Encapsulation appears on quotations as a value-added option, and it is usually described in terms of what it protects the active from. That is half the story. Encapsulation is a trade: it buys protection, taste masking, release control or handling,…
A botanical ingredient can clear customs perfectly and still be unsaleable. The documents that move a shipment — the commercial, transport and analytical pack that importers already know — answer the question of what the goods are and what condition…
Temperature control in the ingredient trade is usually discussed as a packaging question — keep the barrier intact, keep the drum sealed — and stability is discussed as a laboratory question, in the form of the shelf-life study attached to…
Gummies have become the friendliest format on the shelf for a supplement brand and one of the least friendly for a botanical extract. The format asks the ingredient to survive a cooking step, sit in an acidic and highly concentrated…
A botanical extract that is straightforward to sell into a food or supplement application can become a difficult one to sell into feed, and the reason is not the material. It is that feed and pet nutrition are regulated as…
A botanical extract sounds like the easiest possible input to a plant-based claim, and it frequently is not. The plant is only the raw material; between the field and the drum there are extraction aids, filtration aids, carriers, diluents, colourants,…
A botanical extract that performs without complaint in a capsule, a tablet or a stick pack can behave quite differently once the medium becomes water. The temperature has gone up, the water activity has stopped helping, the product now has…
Green is the colour that most often ends up as a compromise, and the reason is structural rather than technical. Where the other colours have a family of materials that can each be judged on its own merits, green is…
Almost every botanical specification carries a moisture figure, and almost none of them carries a water activity figure. That single omission explains a large share of the complaints that arrive after delivery: a lot that conformed on paper, that caked…
The most expensive change to a botanical ingredient is usually the one nobody announces. A grower switches variety, a processor changes the drying method, a supplier moves to a different carrier, a laboratory updates its method, and the material that…