Medicinal plants are very popular on Brazilian shelves, and their consumers are always concerned with choosing the products and brands that bring pure plants and all their properties in their composition.

Attentive to labels, people are more selective, so they want to make sure they will take home a 100% natural product, without adding some type of artificial component that mimics the aroma or masks the benefits.

In addition to teas and herbal medicines, medicinal plants can compose products of beauty and well-being in the form of dry extracts. Therefore, the purer and more natural the input, the greater the benefits of the product – and the customer’s loyalty to the brand.

Difference Between Dry Extract and Powdered Extract of Medicinal Plants

The most common formulas use a powdered extract of medicinal plants. Therefore, it is important to highlight the differences between the use of powdered extracts and dry extracts.

Powdered extracts of herbal plants arise from the repeated milling of the dried plants. Thereafter, the components mix or even get lost during the grinding process.

On the other hand, dry extracts are more complex to concentrate and preserve the natural components of medicinal plants and herbal medicines.

The first process of dry extract production begins with the extraction, where maceration standardizes components and activates the substances to be preserved for a long time. It functions as a super-concentrated tea that activates substances.

Subsequently, the atomization process takes place, where the macerated liquid is diluted and leaves only the substances, which are dried and transformed into powder.

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How to Use Dry Extracts of Medicinal Plants in Teas and Herbal Medicines?

Dry extracts are added during the manufacturing process. That is, one just needs to review the proper formula and replace essences with the inputs corresponding to the plant.

This form of production has no preservatives and no other additives to preserve flavors and taste. In this way, the manufacturing process becomes 100% natural and preserves the components in teas.

Today, Frootiva Co® works with dry extracts of muirapuama, yerba mate, and catuaba, being able to standardize caffeine (in the case of yerba mate) and tannins in the inputs of muirapuama and catuaba. 

Yerba mate in dry extracts has caffeine dosages of 4%, 6%, and 8%. In muirapuama, tannins are found in 3.5% of the composition, while in catuaba the standardization is 5%.

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