Green Spring Technology Launches Light- and Heat-Resistant, Acid- and Alkali-Resistant Black Rice Extract

Modern scientific research reveals that the active components in black rice, such as anthocyanins, form the material basis for its antioxidant properties and support for healthy circulation among other biological activities.

Green Spring Technology's black rice extract, produced through innovative extraction processes, offers multiple significant advantages: high stability, withstanding light exposure, high temperatures, and pH fluctuations to significantly extend product shelf life; high bioactivity, fully preserving core functional components like anthocyanins to ensure efficacy; convenient application, featuring excellent water solubility for easy incorporation into various foods and health supplements; and natural safety, free from chemical solvent residues and aligned with modern clean label trends.

Today, rising health-conscious consumption demands have elevated market expectations for developing and utilizing black rice and its bioactive components. Leveraging modern extraction technology and in-depth research, Green Spring Technology officially introduces a new generation of light- and heat-resistant, acid- and alkali-stable black rice extract. This innovation effectively addresses industry challenges such as degradation and instability during processing and storage associated with traditional black rice pigments.

This raw material preserves the natural bioactive components of black rice while significantly enhancing stability under high temperatures, light exposure, and varying pH conditions. It finds broad application in functional foods, beverages, dietary supplements, and healthy staple foods, providing robust natural ingredient support for product innovation and empowering customers to create truly competitive black rice health products.

1  Authoritative Verification, Empowering Health Product Innovation Through Scientific Quality Control

Modern analytical research confirms the composition and content of anthocyanins—the core functional components in black rice extracts. As a vital natural plant pigment source, black rice anthocyanins are gaining prominence in health foods and dietary supplements due to their well-defined structure and stable bioactivity.

Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) technology enables Green Spring Technology to conduct systematic quality control and component analysis of its black rice extract. The product features cyanidin-3-glucoside as its primary active ingredient with consistently high and stable content. It also contains multiple natural anthocyanins including paeoniflorin and malvidin, ensuring clear composition and batch-to-batch consistency that meets high-quality natural raw material standards.

Multiple studies have confirmed the excellent bioactivity of these components. Through standardized production processes, Green Spring Technology maximizes the preservation of anthocyanins' natural structure-activity relationships and functional stability during extraction. This ensures the final product delivers significant advantages in color performance, quality consistency, and sustained functionality.

Regarding quality control, Green Spring Technology has established a rigorous scientific testing system, comprehensively utilizing advanced techniques such as High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and spectrophotometry. On one hand, HPLC employs cyanidin-3-glucoside as the reference standard for precise quantification of black rice anthocyanins, guaranteeing stable and reliable active ingredient content. On the other hand, spectrophotometry enables real-time monitoring of extraction yield and purification efficiency during production, balancing testing efficiency with cost control.

Through this multi-tiered quality control strategy, Green Spring Technology not only achieves accurate determination of the core components in black rice extracts but also comprehensively ensures product consistency across batches, stability of active ingredient content, and reliability in large-scale production.

Currently, this raw material is widely used in solid beverages, soft capsules, functional foods, and dietary supplements, providing core ingredient support for companies seeking to create “natural, safe, and effective” health products. Green Spring Technology will continue to deepen research on plant ingredients and their industrial applications, collaborating with industry partners to drive innovation and advancement in health products.

2  Green Spring Technology Launches Light- and Heat-Resistant, Acid- and Alkali-Resistant Black Rice Extract 

Recently, based on in-depth research into the stability of black rice anthocyanins, Green Spring Technology successfully launched a new generation of highly stable black rice extract raw material. Through process innovation, this product effectively overcomes common industry challenges such as sensitivity to light, heat, acid-base conditions, and metal ions, offering a natural ingredient solution with vibrant color and exceptional functionality for the food, health supplement, and cosmetics industries.

For a long time, the stability of anthocyanin-based ingredients has been a key factor limiting their widespread application. Traditional black rice pigments are prone to degradation under high temperatures, strong light, or acid-base changes, affecting product color and activity. Green Spring Technology leveraged systematic research outcomes to significantly enhance the stability of black rice extracts during complex processing and storage through process optimization and formulation protection techniques.

Studies demonstrate that Green Spring black rice extracts maintain high color value retention and component stability under heat treatment (70°C–100°C) and varying light exposure conditions, effectively extending the shelf life of end products. Simultaneously, this ingredient exhibits stable red-to-purple hues in acidic to neutral environments (pH < 7) and demonstrates excellent compatibility with common food additives (e.g., vitamin C, low-concentration preservatives) and various metal ions (Na⁺, Mg²⁺, Ca²⁺, Zn²⁺).

Notably, targeted processing reduces its sensitivity to ultrasonic fields, Fe³⁺ ions, and strong oxidizing agents, ensuring color stability and intact active components throughout production.

Green Spring Technology's high-stability black rice extract not only resolves critical technical bottlenecks in natural pigment applications but also provides reliable support for customer product innovation. Suitable for health foods, beverages, dietary supplements, and cosmetics, this ingredient empowers manufacturers to create genuinely stable, effective, and natural end products.

3  Green Spring Technology Delivers High-Purity, High-Activity Black Rice Extracts Through Innovative Extraction and Purification

Technological innovation is the core driver for enhancing raw material quality in natural product extraction.Green Spring Technology integrates multiple modern extraction and purification techniques to achieve efficient, stable preparation of black rice anthocyanins, supplying high-quality black rice extract materials to the food, health supplement, and cosmetics industries.

We employ green, efficient solvent extraction technology, optimizing key parameters like ethanol concentration, temperature, and pH to maximize anthocyanin bioactivity while ensuring extraction rates. Additionally, Green Spring Technology extensively employs ultrasonic extraction technology. Leveraging ultrasonic cavitation effects to accelerate the release of active components, this method significantly enhances extraction efficiency while reducing extraction temperatures, thereby preventing degradation of heat-sensitive constituents.

In terms of innovative processes, Green Spring Technology has introduced microwave extraction technology. By precisely controlling microwave power and exposure time, it achieves rapid, uniform heating, substantially shortening extraction time and improving product yield. Furthermore, the company employs enzymatic extraction technology, utilizing cellulase to gently break down plant cell walls and promote target component dissolution. This approach enhances extraction efficiency while preserving the natural structure of active ingredients.

For purification, Green Spring Technology utilizes advanced macroporous resin separation and membrane separation technologies to effectively remove impurities and improve product purity. By optimizing resin types and elution conditions, anthocyanin content is significantly increased. while simultaneously utilizing nanofiltration membrane technology to achieve multiple purification effects including concentration, defatting, and desalination, comprehensively enhancing product quality.

Through the integrated application of these innovative technologies, Green Spring Technology's black rice extract raw materials achieve industry-leading levels in purity, color value, and bioactivity, providing customers with stable, reliable, high-quality natural raw material solutions. The company will continue to advance extraction process innovation, offering more premium raw material options for the health industry's development.

4  Green Spring Technology's Next-Generation Black Rice Extract Raw Material Pioneers the Future of Health Food Innovation

As a distinctive grain resource in China, black rice extract serves as an ideal natural food ingredient, combining natural pigmentation with antioxidant properties. Green Spring Technology's highly stable black rice extract, with its exceptional resistance to light, heat, acid, and alkali, significantly expands application scenarios in the health food sector. It can be widely used in beverages, baked goods, functional drinks, confectionery, dairy products, dietary supplements, and more, providing food manufacturers with a “natural, safe, and efficient” ingredient solution.

Currently, Green Spring Technology is collaborating with industry partners to explore innovative applications for black rice extract. Beyond supplying premium raw materials, the company offers tailored application support and customized solutions to help clients develop differentiated health products, jointly advancing the deep processing of black rice.

Food and health supplement manufacturers, along with industry partners, are invited to inquire about collaboration, request complimentary samples, and access technical documentation. Let's join hands to create a new future for healthy foods at helen@greenspringbio.com or WhatsApp: +86 13649243917!

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