Tea Saponin

What is Tea Saponin?

Tea Saponin is a natural glycoside compound, mainly found in plants of the Theaceae family, especially in tea leaves, tea seeds, tea roots and other parts of tea trees. It is a mixture of oleanane-type pentacyclic triterpenoid saponins, and its basic structure consists of three parts: sapogenin, glycoside and organic acid. It belongs to the triterpenoid saponin, has a bitter and spicy taste, and is easily soluble in aqueous methanol, aqueous ethanol, glacial acetic acid, acetic anhydride, pyridine, etc. In aqueous solution, it can produce long-lasting foam, similar to soap foam, hence the name "saponin". It has many important physiological functions and broad application prospects. In addition, it also has good emulsification, dispersion, wetting, decontamination, foaming and other surface activities, and is a natural surfactant with excellent performance. Therefore, it is widely used in medicine, daily chemical industry, textile, feed and other fields.

Properties

Solubility: Hard to dissolve in anhydrous methanol and ethanol, insoluble in organic solvents such as ether, acetone, benzene, petroleum ether, etc., easily soluble in aqueous methanol, aqueous ethanol, glacial acetic acid, acetic anhydride, pyridine, etc.

Surface activity: It is a natural non-ionic surfactant with excellent emulsification, dispersing, foaming, wetting and other functions.

What Are The Functions?

Hemolysis

It has a destructive effect on animal red blood cells, but has no effect on white blood cells. It is non-toxic for human and animal oral administration.

Antibacterial and antiviral

It has significant antibacterial and antiviral capabilities, and can effectively inhibit Escherichia coli, skin fungi, measles virus, herpes virus and HIV virus, etc.

Anti-inflammatory

Tea Saponin has a significant anti-inflammatory effect, can relieve mild inflammation, such as bronchial spasm, and has a swelling effect.

Improve the hematopoietic system

Contains nutrients that are beneficial to red blood cells, can remove harmful substances in the blood, promote blood circulation, and improve hematopoietic function.

Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory

It has an antioxidant effect, can remove free radicals, reduce oxidative stress, and prevent cell damage and aging. At the same time, it can also reduce or prevent inflammatory reactions caused by external stimuli.

Regulate oil secretion

It can eliminate excess facial oil, reduce and prevent pore blockage, and is especially suitable for oily skin.

Whitening and conditioning skin

It has the effect of whitening and conditioning the skin, can help reduce the production of melanin, and has a certain effect on fading existing spots, making the skin clearer and brighter.

Protecting the liver

It can inhibit the absorption of alcohol and protect the liver from alcohol damage. It protects the liver by reducing the alcohol content in the blood and promoting the metabolism of alcohol.

Application Scenarios

Food

As an emulsifier and stabilizer, it is widely used in products such as beverages, cakes and condiments.

Daily chemicals

Tea saponin is used as a natural surfactant in shampoo, washing shampoo and other products, with hair care and skin care effects and anti-inflammatory and antipruritic pharmacological functions. In addition, it is also used as a matrix component in sunscreen and anti-inflammatory moisturizers, soaps, shower gels, etc.

Medicine

It has the effect of expectoration and cough relief, and can be used to treat senile tracheitis and various types of edema. It can also be used in anti-influenza drugs and as α-glycosyl tea seed saponin, which is used in a variety of drugs or health drinks and foods.

Animal husbandry

In the animal husbandry industry, it is used as a feed additive to effectively replace antibiotics, reduce zoonotic diseases, and improve the safety and product quality of the animal husbandry industry.

Production Process

Water immersion method

Solvent: Water is used as solvent.

Extraction process: Operate under warm water conditions of 40℃ to 50℃, with a solvent ratio of 1:(1-1.5), and improve the extraction efficiency by circulating leaching two to three times.

Dehydration and drying: The soaked tea meal has a high water content, and most of the water is removed by vacuum filtration or centrifugal separation, and then dried.

Concentration: The extracted soap slurry is first precipitated to remove impurities, and then vacuum concentrated to obtain a certain concentration of soap slurry.

Alcohol immersion method

Solvent: Ethanol or methanol is used as solvent.

Extraction process: The ethanol concentration will gradually decrease during the recycling process, and the ethanol concentration of more than 85% is maintained by adding fresh solvent.

Desolventization and evaporation: The desolventization of wet meal by alcohol immersion adopts a process of baking desolventization as the main method and steam stripping desolventization as the auxiliary method to ensure the appropriate thickness of the material layer, the quality of direct steam, and strictly control the amount of water vapor.

Solvent recovery: The solvent vapor from the desolventization and evaporation processes is condensed and recovered, and then reused after temporary storage.

Water extraction and alcohol precipitation method

Extraction process: The optimal process conditions for the water extraction process are extraction temperature of 60℃, liquid-to-solid ratio of 10:1, extraction time of 2 hours, and extraction times of 3 times. After water extraction, alcohol precipitation is performed. The optimal conditions obtained through experiments are ethanol concentration of 90%, ethanol to concentrate volume ratio of 4:1, alcohol precipitation temperature of 75℃, and alcohol precipitation time of 2.5 hours.

Refining process: including steps such as impurity removal, decolorization, purification, concentration, and drying.

Formulation Of Tea Saponin

Capusle Formulation

Tablet Formulation

Solid Drink Formula

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