Food Grade Phycocyanin Powder E18

What is Food Grade Phycocyanin Powder E18?

Phycocyanin is a natural edible blue pigment extracted and refined from Spirulina, the main component of which is phycocyanin. The extracted algal cyanin appears as a blue to dark blue powder. It is easily soluble in water, and the solution is bright blue to dark blue. The product has good stability to light and heat, and the pH value experiment found that the stable aqueous solution of algal blue between 4.5-8.0 is a bright sky blue, and the colour is relatively pure, close to the blue of the sky and the sea. It can be used in frozen drinks, candy, flavored drinks, jelly, and many other fields.

Food-grade phycocyanin powder is alginate used as a food additive. As a safe food ingredient, all specifications of phycocyanin can be used in food. Based on the solubility of the product, cost of use, and market application, Phycocyanin powder E6, E10, E18, and M18, specifications are more suitable for application in food and beverage. Among them, phycocyanin powder E18 is better than E10 and E6 in terms of solubility and cost-effectiveness. Therefore, we suggest most of the food and beverage customers choose E18 in preference to M18, which has the same specification as E18, but the only difference is that E18 is added with mycose to protect the stability of the protein, whereas M18 is made with maltodextrin, which is adapted to the market's "0 sugar", and "reduced sugar". M18 uses maltodextrin, which is in line with the market trend of "0 sugar" and "reduced sugar".

Green Spring Technology supplies Food Grade phycocyanin powder E18 with the fresh aroma of protein and slight seaweed flavour, good solubility, and 100% water soluble. We has established a traceability system from raw material source to finished product. The environmental control system monitors and controls every aspect of production. It ensures that every link in the production is in a dust-free, constant temperature and humidity environment.

Green Spring strictly control the temperature of the products and the required PH during the production process to prevent quality problems from occurring during the production and preservation of the products. We also adopt multiple filtration and fine filtration to remove more than 90% of miscellaneous proteins, fishy taste and odour. Each batch of product is subject to comprehensive inspection, occasional external inspection and regular type inspection to fully guarantee the quality and safety of the blue spirulina phycocyanin powder. This food grade phycocyanin powder E18 has also passed HALAL, KOSHER and other certifications.

Specification:

Regulation:

It conforms to EU regulations.

Benefits:

Inhibiting Cancer Cells

Blue spirulina phycocyanin has been shown to inhibit cancer cell expansion. Scientists have found that phycocyanin has the function of significantly inhibiting cancer cells. It can be made into an anti-tumor adjuvant therapy drug and used as adjuvant therapy for chemotherapy to enhance the body's immunity. A scientific experiment, with the extraction of phycocyanin powder feeding rats with liver cancer, found that: after phycocyanin powder fed rats survival rate than the control group much higher in 5 weeks, 90% of rats in the treatment group lived, while the untreated group only live 25%. 8 weeks later, 25% of rats in the treatment group live, the untreated group of rats are dead. This suggests that oral administration of phycocyanin powder can increase the survival rate of organisms with cancer.

Antioxidant, Scavenging Free Radicals

Blue spirulina phycocyanin can promote cell activity, scavenging free radicals in the body, improving ovarian function, and promoting the body's rapid synthesis of elastin. Scientific studies have shown that phycocyanin can stimulate the generation of red blood cell colonies, similar to the role of erythropoietin. Able to adjust the role of white blood cells and increase the activity of lymphocytes. Increase physical energy, promote the growth of red blood cells, enhance the body's immune function, and promote growth and development.

Regulation of Immunity

Phycocyanin can increase the activity of lymphocytes, through the lymphatic system to improve the body's immunity, and enhance the body's ability to prevent and fight diseases.

Anti-inflammatory

Many middle-aged and elderly people are prone to inflammatory reactions that can arise from minor illnesses, even if the inflammation is far more damaging than the illness itself. Phycocyanin can effectively remove intracellular hydroxyl groups and reduce inflammation induced by glucose oxidase. It exhibits significant antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.

Improvement of Anaemia

Phycocyanin can form soluble compounds with iron on the one hand, greatly improving the body's absorption of iron, on the other hand, it has a stimulating effect on bone marrow hematopoiesis, which can be used in clinical auxiliary treatment of a variety of blood disorders, and improve the effect on the people with symptoms of anaemia.

Applications:

In the Food Field:

Phycocyanin powder is one of the few edible blue pigments in nature, a water-soluble pigment, non-toxic, pure blue and can be used as a food colouring agent. The US FDA gave permission in 2013/2014 for the application of phycocyanin powder in some food products, including beverages, cheeses, ice creams, candies, chewing gums, yoghurts, puddings, and many other common food products. China's national standard on phycocyanin products, "Food Additives Phycocyanin," has also been implemented with the start of the year in March 2021 (GB 1886.309-2020). The Chinese government is also working on the implementation of the national standard on phycocyanin products.

For Health Products:

Foreign countries have successfully developed a variety of blue spirulina phycocyanin powder composite health products, Japan's Kampai AIDS Research Institute study shows that blue spirulina phycocyanin can improve anaemia, and improve haemoglobin successful reports. In 1982, Iijima and others researched mice oral phycocyanin to improve the injection of liver tumour cells mice survival rate, and the experimental group of mice lymphocyte activity was significantly higher than the control, they believed that the protein promoted the immune and anti-disease function. 1986 Harvard Hospital Schwartz and Shklar found that blue spirulina phycocyanin has an inhibitory effect on some cancer cells. Blue spirulina phycocyanin powder has been used as an ingredient in a variety of health products.

Special reagents:

Phycocyanin powder is blue and fluorescent and can be used as a reagent for some photodynamic studies in biology and cytology.