Product name: Licorice Root Extract Powder
Type: Herbal Extract
Appearance: White crystalline powder
Form:powder
Loss on drying :≤10.0%
Specification: Glycyrrhizic acid  7%
Part used: root
Extraction Type:Solvent Extraction
Active ingredients: Glycyrrhizic acid
Molecular Formula: C42H62O16
Molecular Weight: 822.92
Test method: HPLC

What is the   Licorice Root Extract Powder?
Licorice extract is extracted from licorice ingredients have medicinal value. Licorice extract generally contains: glycyrrhizin, glycyrrhizic acid, licorice saponins, licorice flavonoids,thorn Mans handle flower elements quercetin.Licorice extract is yellow to brownish-yellow powder. Licorice extract is used to treat stomach weakness, malaise, fatigue, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, cough, sputum, abdominal, limb spasm acute pain and other symptoms.
 What is  Glycyrrhizic acid ?
Glycyrrhizic acid is the active principle of liquorice root. Glycyrrhizic acid is a powerful sweetener, 3050 times as potent as sucrose (table sugar).
Chemically, glycyrrhizic acid is a triterpenoid saponin glycoside being either the Ca2+ or K+ salt of glycyrrhizic (or glycyrrhizinic) acid. Upon hydrolysis, the glycoside loses its sweet taste and is converted to the aglycone glycyrrhetinic acid plus two molecules of glucuronic acid. The glycyrrhizic acid form is not particularly water soluble, but its ammonium salt is soluble in water at pH greater than 4.5.
Although sweet, the taste of glycyrrhizic acid is different from that of sugar. The sweetness of glycyrrhizic acid has a slower onset than sugar, and lingers in the mouth for some time. Additionally, its characteristic licorice flavor makes it unsuitable as a direct flavor substitute for sugar. Unlike the artificial sweetener aspartame, glycyrrhizic acid maintains its sweetness under heating.
 What about the functions of  Licorice Root Extract Powder? 
1. Liquorice root could help enhance the transformation and transportation functions of the spleen and stomach.
2. Since the spleen dominates muscles and the liver controls tendons, liquorice root has excellent properties to relieve pain and cramps of smooth or skeletal muscles.
3. Liquorice root also moistens the lungs and stops coughs. It treats disorders such as shortness of breath, fatigue, sallow facial appearance, decreased food intake, loose stools, and diarrhea.
4. Its neutral property treats coughing and wheezing of various etiologies that stems from either cold or heat, and deficiencies of excess, with or without phlegm.
5. Liquorice root can also be used to clear heat and toxins; it is useful to treat poisoning due to foods, herbs, herbicides, pesticides, drugs and heavy metals.
6. Liquorice root has also been reported to speed the healing of canker sores.
How about the application of  Licorice Root Extract Powder?
1.As a sweetener, licorice exatrct is used in food industry;
2.As as raw materials of drugs for clearing heat and detoxicating,licorice extract is used in medicine field;
3.As product for benefiting stomach, licorice extract is widely used in health industry;
4.Licorice extract applied in cosmetic field, licorice extract is able to nourish and cure the skin.
 
Where does Licorice Root extract Powder use to?
 
Licorice extract is used in cosmetics for whitening, anti-sensitizing, anti-oxidizing and anti-inflammation; in pharmaceuticals and health care, it is used to cure gastritis, ulcer, liver-caring, prevention for atherosclerosis and females’ osteoporosis after their climacterium. Many renowned enterprises all over the world have already chosen Glabridin to be the chief additive in their whitening , spot-removing and health foods products.