What is the Application of Honeysuckle Extract in Health Food?

Honeysuckle is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, and its extract has a wide range of clinical applications. The results indicate that the effective ingredients in the formulation are flavonoids, volatile essential oils, mucin, and amino acids. Flavonoids are the main active ingredients of honeysuckle, which have various effects such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti allergic, and immunomodulatory effects. In addition, honeysuckle can also inhibit influenza virus, lower blood pressure, and detoxify. Therefore, honeysuckle is a traditional Chinese medicine with medicinal value.

4.1 Antixiotant

Research has shown that free radicals are one of the important factors causing cellular aging, cancer, and aging. Free radicals in the body can cause damage to the body, leading to oxidative stress. Antioxidant activity is a means of clearing free radicals by enhancing antioxidant enzyme activity and inhibiting lipid peroxidation to eliminate excess free radicals in the body. Honeysuckle extract has strong antioxidant activity, which can effectively eliminate oxygen free radicals and prevent lipid peroxidation. Research has also shown that honeysuckle extract has a scavenging rate of 93.3% and 87.5% for DPPH and ABTS free radicals, respectively. Adding an appropriate amount of antioxidants such as vitamin E and vitamin C to the extract of honeysuckle can improve the body's ability to clear free radicals. In addition, honeysuckle extract can also reduce the production of lipid peroxides by reducing the content of malondialdehyde (MDA), a lipid peroxidation product, thereby achieving antioxidant effects.

4.2 Inhance Immunity

Honeysuckle, as a traditional Chinese medicinal herb, has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, and antibacterial. The main active ingredients in honeysuckle extract include chlorogenic acid, luteolin, honeysuckle saponin D, matrine, triterpenoid saponins, etc., which have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.

Honeysuckle extract can be used to enhance immunity and prevent diseases such as colds. Biologist demonstrated through animal experiments that honeysuckle extract can enhance the resistance of mice to influenza virus, improve immune function, and reduce the mortality rate of mice infected with influenza virus.

Biologist applied honeysuckle extract in combination with capsaicin and found that at the optimal mass concentration (50mg/mL), the inhibition rates of honeysuckle extract on Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli reached 91.67% and 82.02%, respectively, and the inhibition rates on Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae reached 80.04% and 71.54%, respectively. Adding honeysuckle extract to food can enhance the immune function of the food, thereby achieving the effect of disease prevention. Biologist found that honeysuckle extract has a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Bacillus subtilis, and can effectively reduce the activity of gastric protease, inhibiting the hydrolysis of protein by gastric protease. Therefore, honeysuckle extract can be used as an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory raw material and auxiliary therapeutic drug in health foods to alleviate symptoms such as fever and systemic pain caused by infections in the body.

Immunity is the first line of defense for the human body against pathogen invasion, and its strength directly determines the body's ability to resist diseases. Low immune function can lead to the occurrence of various diseases. Therefore, enhancing immunity has become a hot research topic in countries around the world. Honeysuckle extract has the effect of enhancing immunity. Research has shown that honeysuckle extract can increase the proliferation ability of mouse spleen lymphocytes, promote the generation of mouse serum hemolysin, improve macrophage phagocytic function and NK cell activity; It can increase the weight of mouse spleen, phagocytic index of macrophages and NK cell activity, and enhance the body's immunity. Biologist made honeysuckle extract into soft capsules to improve lipid abnormalities in adult patients with hyperlipidemia. The results showed that soft capsules can significantly reduce serum total cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, and increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels. Meanwhile, honeysuckle extract can also promote the development of immune organs such as thymus and spleen, and enhance immune function. Therefore, making honeysuckle extract into health food and adding appropriate doses of vitamins, minerals, and other elements can enhance the body's immune system

4.3 Assisted lipid-lowering therapy

Honeysuckle extract has auxiliary lipid-lowering function, and its mechanism may be the effective ingredients such as chlorogenic acid and isochlorogenic acid in honeysuckle, which can reduce the levels of serum total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides, and improve the levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, thereby achieving the goal of auxiliary lipid-lowering. Research by Wang Yingna et al. has shown that honeysuckle extract can reduce total cholesterol (TC) and triglycerides (TG) content in the serum of hyperlipidemic mice, and increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) content. At present, there are mainly health foods, solid drinks, instant tea, and other products that assist in reducing blood lipids with honeysuckle extract. Biologist developed a health food called "lipid-lowering health tea" using honeysuckle as the main raw material. The product was developed using a combination of honeysuckle extract and dandelion root extract, and an appropriate amount of honey was added to enhance the taste of the product.

As age increases, the amount of free radicals in the body increases, causing damage to the body and leading to aging. Oxidative stress is one of the important factors that cause aging in the body. The interaction between oxidative stress products and oxidative products produces various free radicals, leading to damage biological macromolecules such as DNA and proteins. When the accumulation of free radicals reaches a certain level, it can cause aging in the body. Research has shown that honeysuckle extract can eliminate free radicals through antioxidant effects.

Expert found that adding honeysuckle extract to health products can eliminate free radicals by regulating the activity and level of key enzymes in the free radical metabolism process. In addition, honeysuckle extract can also delay aging by inhibiting lipid peroxidation, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and protective measures against DNA damage. Therefore, adding honeysuckle extract to health foods has a good anti-aging effect

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