Process for the production of an enriched natural antioxidant mixture from a single source plant
AssigneeApplied Food Sciences, Inc.
InventorChrstine C. Fields
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Abstract
A process for extracting antioxidants from a plant, including contacting a plant material from a guayusa plant for a first time with a solvent, thereby obtaining a first slurry, filtering said first slurry, thereby obtaining a first extract, contacting said plant material for a second time with said solvent, thereby obtaining a second slurry, filtering said second slurry, thereby obtaining a second extract, combining said first extract and said second extract, thereby generating an third extract containing at least antioxidants, xanthines, and amino acids, and substantially drying said third extract.
Claims9
A process for extracting antioxidants from a plant, comprising:
- blanching a plant material from a guayusa plant;
- contacting said plant material for a first time with a solvent, thereby obtaining a first slurry;
- filtering said first slurry, thereby obtaining a first extract;
- contacting said plant material for a second time with said solvent, thereby obtaining a second slurry;
- filtering said second slurry, thereby obtaining a second extract;
- combining said first extract and said second extract, thereby generating an third extract containing at least antioxidants, xanthines, and amino acids;
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- substantially drying said third extract.
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