Do You Know About This Treasure Ingredient - Vine Tea Extract?

What Exactly is Vine Tea Extract?

 When it comes to vine tea, many friends may feel unfamiliar. But when mentioning its core active component - dihydromyricetin (DMY), partners who pay attention to flavonoid ingredients will surely be familiar with it. Our vine tea extract is a natural plant extract that takes the tender stems and leaves of Ampelopsis grossedentata (commonly known as "vine tea"), a plant of the genus Ampelopsis in the Vitaceae family, as raw materials. Through the "low-temperature extraction + macroporous resin purification" process (with light protection and temperature control throughout the process to retain activity), it directionally enriches flavonoid components such as dihydromyricetin.

High-quality vine tea extract usually has two key characteristics:

• Controllable ingredient purity: According to actual application needs, the content of dihydromyricetin can be adjusted from 30% to 98%. Among them, high-purity products (≥90%) must meet the standards of low impurity content and no organic solvent residues through HPLC detection, which is in line with the requirements of food-grade and health product-grade ingredients.

• Reliable raw material traceability: High-quality vine tea raw materials are mostly produced in areas such as Jianghua and Zhangjiajie in Hunan Province. Due to the suitable altitude and climate conditions in these regions, the natural dihydromyricetin content in vine tea can reach 25% to 38%, providing a guarantee for the quality of the extract from the source.

What "Practical Value" Does Vine Tea Extract Have?

For food and health product manufacturers and brand owners, the "usefulness" of ingredients directly determines the competitiveness of products. The reason why vine tea extract has become popular quickly lies in the multiple characteristics brought by components such as dihydromyricetin, which perfectly meets consumers' current demand for "natural, healthy and functional" products:

1. "Liver and Stomach Protection": Accurately Meeting the Needs of "Stay-up Groups" and "Social Drinkers"

Dihydromyricetin can accelerate the decomposition of acetaldehyde, a metabolite of ethanol, reduce its damage to liver cells, and at the same time have a certain protective effect on the gastric mucosa. This characteristic makes vine tea extract a high-quality raw material for liver-protecting health products and stomach-nourishing foods. It can be easily adapted to capsules, tablets, solid beverages and compressed candies.

      2."Anti-inflammatory and Antibacterial": Assisting the R&D of "Natural Protection" Products

Modern research shows that the flavonoid components in vine tea extract have an inhibitory effect on a variety of bacteria (such as Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli) and molds, and also have a certain anti-inflammatory effect. Under the current trend where consumers pursue "no additives and natural preservation", it can be used in oral care products (such as lozenges, mouthwashes) and intestinal health foods. It can not only enhance the functionality of products, but also reduce the use of chemical preservatives, thereby improving the market competitiveness of products.

     3."Antioxidant + Metabolic Regulation": Adapting to the Large Scenario of "Health Management"

The antioxidant capacity of vine tea extract is better than that of many common plant extracts (such as vitamin E, tea polyphenols). It can scavenge free radicals and delay cell aging. At the same time, it can also assist in regulating blood sugar and blood lipids, and improving blood circulation. This enables it to play an important role in antioxidant health products, blood sugar and lipid control foods, and sports nutrition supplements. It can find a fit point both in health products for middle-aged and elderly groups and anti-aging foods for young consumers.

Which Specific Products Can Vine Tea Extract Be Applied to?

After years of market verification, the application scenarios of vine tea extract have covered multiple segments of the food and health product fields. Our cooperative customers have also successfully launched a number of best-selling products:

• Health Product Field: Focusing on "Functionality" to Accurately Solve Needs

Liver-protecting capsules/tablets take high-purity vine tea extract (dihydromyricetin ≥90%) as the core component, combined with pueraria extract and silymarin. Targeting people who often socialize and stay up late, they focus on "post-alcohol care and daily liver protection".

Anti-inflammatory health drinks combine vine tea extract with honeysuckle and chrysanthemum extracts to make oral liquids or concentrates. For people who are prone to getting "internal heat" and have oral discomfort, they emphasize "natural anti-inflammatory and mild conditioning".

• Food Field: Balancing "Taste + Health" to Enhance Product Added Value

Solid beverages: Launch "vine tea-flavored solid beverages", or mix them with collagen and vitamin C to make "anti-oxidation and beauty drinks". They have a refreshing taste (vine tea has a faint sweet aftertaste) and are suitable for young consumers to brew daily.

Compressed candies: Make vine tea extract into lozenges and add menthol. Focusing on "fresh breath + oral antibacterial", they can be used as "portable healthy snacks" in the office and during business trips.

Baked foods: Add low-concentration vine tea extract (dihydromyricetin 30%-50%) to biscuits and cakes to improve the antioxidant capacity of products, extend the shelf life, and at the same time endow products with "healthy attributes" to attract family consumers who pay attention to health preservation.

• Other Fields: Expanding "Cross-border Applications" to Explore New Potentials

In addition to food and health products, vine tea extract can also be used in daily chemical products. For example, it can be added to facial cleansers and masks to use its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, focusing on "natural repair". Or it can be used in pet food to assist in improving the intestinal health of pets, helping customers expand more business scenarios.

If you are looking for high-cost-effective natural functional ingredients and want to layout liver-protecting, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant products, you might as well try vine tea extract!