Common drying methods for plant extracts
As a professional natural ingredients manufacturer from China, we can provide hundreds of products available. during of my working, I meet some issues from my clients asking, for example, sourcing, technology etc....
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Hot air drying, spray drying,vacuum drying have been widely used for the drying process of plant extraction.
1)The original method used is hot air drying due to its easy accessibility and lower cost, raw material directly crush powder, it is called raw material powder.insobluble water, widely used in raw herb.
2)The most common drying mothod is spray drying.it will be widely used for superfood,beverage&vegetable etc.... Maltodextrin as carrier with excipient to make powder.
3)vacuum drying mehod is the most popular for freeze drying fruit powder, the biggest advantage of this way is to keep the original taste, high nitritional value and rich color.
