Process for the production of an enriched natural antioxidant mixture from a single source plant
AssigneeApplied Food Sciences, Inc.
InventorCHRISTINE 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.
Claims10
An antioxidant mixture prepared by a process comprising the steps of:
- 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;
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- substantially drying said third extract.
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