Lutein High Quality Food Pigment Lutein2%-4% Powder
Product Description
Lutein powder from marigold extract in a pigment widely used in food additives, also used as a medicinal pigment. Lutein is a widely found in vegetables, flowers, fruits and other plants in the natural material, living in "Class carrot category of" family matter, now known to exist in nature, more than 600 types of carotenoids, only about 20 species exist in the person's blood and tissues.
Marigold Extract Lutein, a carotenoid found naturally in fruits and vegetables, is a great antioxidant that protects cells from free radical damage. Lutein is found in the eyes, skin, serum, cervix, brain, heart, chest and other parts of the human body. It is especially important for the eyes and is the most important nutrient for retina and cataract.
The eye is the organ in the body most vulnerable to light damage. The blue part of the light that enters the eye needs to be absorbed by lutein. In addition, free radicals produced by light can also be cleared by lutein. Eating lutein-rich foods or lutein supplements increases lutein levels in the blood and in the macula, reducing the risk of age-related macular degeneration.
COA
| Items | Specifications | Results |
| Appearance | Yellow powder | Complies |
| Order | Characteristic | Complies |
| Assay(Carotene) | 2%-4% | 2.52% |
| Tasted | Characteristic | Complies |
| Loss on Drying | 4-7(%) | 4.12% |
| Total Ash | 8% Max | 4.85% |
| Heavy Metal | ≤10(ppm) | Complies |
| Arsenic(As) | 0.5ppm Max | Complies |
| Lead(Pb) | 1ppm Max | Complies |
| Mercury(Hg) | 0.1ppm Max | Complies |
| Total Plate Count | 10000cfu/g Max. | 100cfu/g |
| Yeast & Mould | 100cfu/g Max. | ＞20cfu/g |
| Salmonella | Negative | Complies |
| E.Coli. | Negative | Complies |
| Staphylococcus | Negative | Complies |
| Conclusion | Conform to USP 41 | |
| Storage | Store in a well-closed place with constant low temperature and no direct sun light. | |
| Shelf life | 2 years when properly stored | |
Function
1. Protect eyes from light damage, delay eye presbyopia and prevent lesions
The wavelength of blue light is 400-500nm, which is the most harmful to human body, especially eyes. The maximum absorption wavelength of lutein and zeaxanthin is about 450-453nm.
2. Protect your eyesight
Lutein has antioxidant and photoprotective effects, can promote the regeneration of rhodopsin in retinal cells, and can prevent high myopia and retinal detachment
3. Relieve eye strain
Can quickly improve: blurred vision, eye dry, eye distension, eye pain, photophobia, etc.
4. Improve the density of macular pigment, prevent macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa, prevent AMD(age-related macular disease)
Lutein and zeaxanthin are excellent antioxidants
Lutein and zeaxanthin remove singlet oxygen. Singlet oxygen is an active molecule that can be produced when skin is exposed to ultraviolet light and can cause cancer cell formation.
Lutein and zeaxanthin can prevent the damage of free radicals, quenching singlet oxygen and capture reactive oxygen radicals, and zeaxanthin has stronger antioxidant activity than lutein because of more conjugated double bonds in molecular structure than lutein.
6. High quality natural colorants
An excellent natural colorant with strong colouring force and uniform and stable color; The color range is yellow and orange.
Applications
1. Applied in food field, it is mainly used as a natural colorant or pigment.
2. Applied in cosmetics, it will provide supplemental antioxidant capacity to the skin.
Application
(1). Lutein can protect our eyesight, with the function of delaying eye's ageing;
(2). Lutein has the antioxidant effect, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease and cancer;
(3). Lutein can postpone early atherosclerosis process ;
(4). Lutein has effect of inhibiting cancer, such as breast cancer, prostate cancer and colorectal cancer.
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