Described are methods of extracting target compounds from vanilla, including compounds having beneficial anti-aging properties. The method includes the steps of performing a first extraction step on a feedstock to produce a first extract fraction and a marc; and a subsequent second extraction step on the marc to produce a second extract fraction. Also disclosed are formulations containing compounds containing active compounds obtained using the methods, and ingredients containing the actives compounds for use in various applications.

A Siraitia grosvenorii extract preparation method is provided herein that removes an agrochemical selectively and efficiently from a Siraitia grosvenorii extract containing the agrochemical. The method further comprises collecting with high yield a Siraitia grosvenorii glycoside, a substance useful as a sweetener component.

The present invention relates to a product for at least one of medicinal, cosmetic, coloring or dermatologic use. The product comprises a fibrous plant product and a plant extract which is applied thereto. Further, the invention relates to a corresponding method for producing said product and its use in at least one of medicinal, cosmetic, coloring or dermatologic products or applications or treatments. The plants used may be all plants comprising one or more substances of interest to achieve a desired medicinal, cosmetic, coloring or dermatologic effect.

This invention relates to a method for obtaining nutritionally beneficial and/or biologically active components, such as aromatic substances and vitamins, from animal-derived products and to oil-based extracts which can be obtained from this method.

Provided are a method for producing a purified Salacia genus plant extract having improved flavor by increasing the -glucosidase inhibitory activity of the extract without significantly reducing the recovery rate of the extract concomitantly with purification; and a purified Salacia genus plant extract. The method for producing a purified Salacia genus plant extract includes an extraction step of bringing a Salacia genus plant-containing raw material extract including at least one of a Salacia genus plant, a Salacia genus plant extract, and a Salacia genus plant ground product, into contact with 0.1 to 20 mass % of activated carbon in the presence of an extraction solvent.

A method for selectively separating at least one apolar organic substance, comprises: (a) providing a starting mixture (10) which contains at least one organic substance comprising at least one apolar group and optionally a solvent; (b) bringing the starting mixture into contact with at least one cyclodextrin to obtain a cyclodextrin-aromatic substance complex; and optionally (c) separating the complex from the liquid phase; and (d) treating the separated complex, in particular enzymatically, and optionally filtering the resulting mixture, whereby a composition loaded with at least one organic substance comprising at least one apolar group is obtained. The invention also relates to a composition loaded with at least one organic substance comprising at least one apolar group, and to the use of this composition in order to introduce at least one apolar organic substance into a food, luxury food, cosmetic product, or pharmaceutical product.

The present invention provides a flavor extract of low-temperature-pressed peanut cake which is extracted from low-temperature-pressed peanut cake. In the flavor extract, the content of pyrazines flavor substances is not less than 55%, and the content of the aldehydes substances is not more than 15%. The present invention also provides a method for improving the flavor of peanut oil by using the flavor extract of the low-temperature-pressed peanut cake. The flavor extract extracted from peanut cake according to the present invention, which contains 55% or more pyrazines flavor substances, can not only improve the flavor of low-temperature-pressed peanut oil significantly, but also retain the original quality and color of the low-temperature-pressed peanut oil when it is added to low-temperature-pressed peanut oil.

A Stevia extract comprises one or more Stevia-derived non-steviol glycoside substances and/or one or more non-volatile non-steviol glycoside substances. The Stevia extract may be used as a sweetener or a flavorant in an orally consumable product.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a protein, said protein having an activity of synthesizing rhamnose from glucose, and a polynucleotide encoding the same. Provided are a rhamnose synthase derived from stevia and a method for producing rhamnose from glucose using a gene. Also provided is a method for producing a steviol glycoside using the rhamnose synthase derived from stevia.

The invention describes products, uses thereof, compositions thereof, and methods to prepare products formed from Maillard reaction products from a sugar donor and/or sweet tea extracts, stevia extracts, swingle (mogroside) extracts, one or more sweet tea extract components, one or more steviol glycosides, one or more mogrosides, one or more glycosylated sweet tea glycosides, one or more glycosylated steviol glycosides or one or more glycosylated mogrosides and an amine donor/reactant.