10%-20% Bitter Melon Extract Charantin Powder CAS 57126-62-2

Bitter Melon Extract Charantin 10%-20% Charantin Powder CAS 57126-62-2

Prodcution

The plant Momordica charantia belongs to the family cucuritaceae and is commonly known as bitter melon. Bitter melon grows in tropical and subtropic areas, including parts of East Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and South America, where it is used as a food as well as a medicine. It produces beautiful flowers and prickly fruit. The fruit of this plant lives up to its nameit tastes bitter. Although the seeds, leaves, and vines of bitter melon have all been used, the fruit is the safest and most prevalent part of the plant used medicinally. The juice of the leaves and fruit or seeds is used as an anthelmintic. In Brazil, the dose for anthelmintic use is two or three seeds. The immature fruit of M. Charantia tastes bitter due to the cucurbitacius. Cucurbitacius is comprised of a group of triterpenes including momordicosides, A-E, K, L, and momardicius I, II and III. The roots and fruit are used as an abortifacient.

Function

1.Antibiotic;

2.Antitumor activity (constituents lutein and lycopene);

3.Antiviral ;Aphrodisiac; Increases tissue uptake of glucose (due to charantin);

4.Immunosuppressive (modulating activity of T and B lymphocytes and suppressing macrophage actiivity;

5.Inhibits corticotropin - induced lipolysis; nsulinomimetic;Hypotensive;Laxative;

6.Lowers blood glucose ;

7.Stimulates lipogenesis;Stomachic; ermifuge

Application:

1. Bitter Melon Extract can be applied in health food field, be widely used in food additives industry, bitter melon extract can be added into the dairy, beverage, health care products.
2. The bitter melon's Vatamin C content is very high; it has functions of preventing scurvy, protecting cell membrane and so on. It can prevent atherosclerosis, sharpen organism stress, and protect heart.
3. The effective conponent in the bitter melon may suppress normal cell's cancer and promotion suddent change cell's restoration, has certain antitumoral effect.