Chicory Extract

Latin Name: Chicorium intybus L.

Description: It is isolated from chicory root, a plant that is indigenous to southern Europe.

Chicory, Cichorium intybus, is bushy perennial herbaceous plant with blue, lavender, or occasionally white flowers. Varous varieties are cultivated for saled leaves, chicons (blanched buds), or for roots (var. sativum), which are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and additive. It is also grown as a forage crop for livestock. It lives as a wild plant on roadsides in its native Europe, and in North America and Australia, where it has become naturalized. Chicory root has been used since Roman times. In recent centuries chicory root has been used as a coffee substitute and supplentment.

Function:

• Increasing human bifidobacterium and adjusting gastrointestinal function;

• Enhancing immune function;

• Reducing blood sugar and cholesterol;

• Improving the fat metabolism and losing weight.

Active Ingredient: Inulin; Chichorlin; Chicoric acid.

Inulin is a kind of water-solubility dietary fiber, also a natural carbohydrate, almost not to be acid hydrolysis and digestion. Inulin would not been destroyed before reaching the colon. There is plenty of beneficial microbial fermentation, which make inulin having oligofructose and dietary fiber characteristics.

Inulin:

CAS#: 9005-80-5.

Molecular Formula: C228H382O191.

Molecular Weight: 6179.36

Part Used: Root.

Appearance: White powder.

Specification: Inulin 50%-98% (HPLC).

Characteristic:

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