The potential of the market for hypoglycemic health food is huge. China has rich new resources.

Business Club October 11 News In recent years, diabetes has rapidly risen to a worldwide high incidence. According to statistics from the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China, the number of people with diabetes in the urban population has reached more than 40 million. Diabetes is a disease that is closely related to life habits. The international medical community generally believes that people with diabetes should not only control excessive blood sugar with hypoglycemic drugs, but that eating certain special foods can also control high blood sugar levels. Such food is hypoglycemic food.

At present, there are at least hundreds of hypoglycemic foods on the international market, of which the four best-selling sugar-lowering health foods in the United States and other western countries are: bitter gourd (the main active ingredient is “bitter melon polypeptide”); Indian spoon vine (main ingredient is "sweet acid"); fenugreek ray (main ingredient is fenugreek gum); cinnamon powder (main ingredient is "cinnamic acid"). Other sugar-reducing foods with large sales volume include: wild yam in Mexico (similar to some yams in China, but not exactly the same), chromium preparations (such as “Picoline-Chromium”), and saccharomyces (main ingredients are B vitamins and chromium), American ginseng, Indian turmeric, Lagerstroemia grandiflora extract, Passiflora extract, Orange peel extract, Lime extract, Coenzyme Q10 (COQ10), Artichoke extract, Bilberry Extract Substances, grape seed extract, trace elements (such as vanadium compounds and the like) and so on. These products have a good market in the international market.

It is understood that the current hypoglycemic health foods in the United States, Japan, and Europe all have annual sales of several hundred million US dollars. Although China is a high-risk country for diabetes, it has not yet formed a large market for hypoglycemic and health products. Therefore, the development of new resources for sugar-reducing health foods will have a broad market prospect in China.

Resource-rich new hypoglycemic health food

In view of the good sales prospects for hypoglycemic and health food products, in recent years, health care product manufacturers in many countries are actively developing new resources for hypoglycemic and health products, so as to take the initiative in the fierce market competition. Some of the new types of hypoglycemic health foods that are being developed by foreign manufacturers or have been listed on the market have been introduced as follows and are for reference.

Ginseng fruit

Ginseng fruit contains ginsenosides, ginseng polysaccharides, alkaloids, volatile oils, amino acids, inorganic acids and many other active substances. According to scholars' estimation, it is very likely that the synergistic effect of the above components contained in ginseng fruit inhibits the increase of blood glucose. China's Changbai Mountain Region in Jilin Province is the largest ginseng cultivation base in China. Its ginseng production accounts for about 90% of the total output of ginseng in the country. Jilin's ginseng fruit production is also very impressive, but so far, ginseng fruit has not been effectively developed and utilized in China. Therefore, relevant domestic departments should vigorously develop domestically produced ginseng fruit to reduce blood sugar and health foods. This will not only directly increase the economic income of the peasants, but also promote and promote the development of the local economy.

Green Tea Extract

Green tea is recognized as the world's number one natural health drink. In fact, it is an excellent new source of hypoglycemic health food. According to long-term studies by American and Japanese scholars, people can effectively control waistline growth and significantly reduce hyperglycemia by eating 500mg to 600mg of catechin per day (equivalent to the amount of tea polyphenols contained in 6 cups of tea per day). American medical researchers have marketed tea polyphenols capsules (where catechol content accounts for more than 80%) to people with type 2 diabetes and hypoglycemic drugs. The results showed that fasting blood glucose and glycated hemoglobin were significantly better in diabetes patients who took tea polyphenols capsules than diabetics who took hypoglycemic agents alone. China is a world leader in tea production, with an annual output of millions of tons of tea. Therefore, the development of green tea and sugar-reducing health foods will undoubtedly have resource advantages.

Giant hedgehog

Giant hedgehogs are native to India, Iran, and the Mediterranean and were used by local residents for medicinal purposes very early. U.S. researchers first discovered that the large black locust extract has excellent hypoglycemic effects. According to the analysis, this is likely to be related to the large locust saponins contained in the locusts. The current hedgehog has been listed as a health food in the United States and Europe and has a very good market. It is understood that the southern provinces of China (especially the more mountainous provinces) also have the distribution of wild hedgehog wild resources.

Xinye Qingniu

Qingniu gallbladder, alias “Jinguo Lam”, is a low-shrub shrub that is mainly distributed in bushes in the stony mountainous areas, especially in acidic soils such as red soil or limestone. In southern China, there is a wide distribution of limestone mountains and red soils. Therefore, the wild fruit resources of Jinguo Lam are very abundant. Many local people in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Guizhou provinces use them as herbs for detoxification and detoxification. According to reports, the heart of C. chinensis which grows in the highland of India (it is the same genus with China's Jinguo Lam) has a significant hypoglycemic effect. In recent years, the extract of India's heart and green cattle gall bladder has been exported to Europe and the United States as a new type of health food raw materials. Chinese companies should also include the development of the new products of the South China Golden Nuts and Glycemics Hypoglycemic Care in the new product development agenda.

Cystic Rosewood

The sac-like sandalwood is a kind of deciduous tall tree (the height of which can grow to more than 30m) in the red sandalwood family. It is native to the primeval forests of South Asian countries such as India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The sac-like sandalwood leaves and bark contain dozens of active substances such as catechins, pterostilbene, pterostilbene, pterostilbene, β-oleoyl alcohol, licorice aglycone, isoglycyrrhizin, and pterostilbene. American researchers believe that it is the synergistic effect of the above active ingredients that can significantly reduce hyperglycemia. Since the late 1990s, unilateral or compound hypoglycemic health products made from India's sac-shaped rosewood extract have become one of the best-selling products on the US market.