How Does Enzyme Assist Active Ingredients Extraction?

In recent years, enzymes have been increasingly used in the extraction of natural products. Enzymes can improve the extraction rate of active ingredients in natural products and have great application potential. Green development has become the core concept of future chemistry and pharmaceuticals. Enzymatic extraction has the advantages of high efficiency and low pollution, and is an important development direction of green extraction technology for natural products.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Enzyme Extraction

Enzymatic methods have been widely used in the extraction of active ingredients from natural products. This extraction method utilizes the specificity characteristic of the enzyme. The enzyme gently and effectively destroys the skeleton structure of the plant cell wall, thereby accelerating the dissolution of active ingredients in the plant cells.

Compared with the traditional solvent extraction method, enzymatic extraction of active ingredients in natural products has mild and simple conditions. This allows for faster access to the active ingredients without their activity being destroyed.

Enzyme has the characteristics of high efficiency in a small amount, that is, a small amount of enzyme can achieve a good extraction effect of active ingredients, avoiding the waste of chemical reagents and reducing environmental pollution.

However, since the activity of the enzyme is affected by many factors, the extraction conditions must be strictly controlled during the extraction process, mainly including the most

optimum temperature and optimum pH. Only in this way can the activity of the enzyme be ensured, so as to obtain a higher extraction rate.

Extraction Method Combination

Ultrasonic and microwave extraction methods, as two physically assisted extraction methods, are often used in combination with other extraction methods, which can achieve the purpose of increasing the yield, shortening the extraction time, and lowering the extraction temperature. Therefore, the ideal effect can be obtained by combining the enzymatic method with microwave or ultrasonic extraction.

In addition, when extracting active ingredients of natural products by enzymatic hydrolysis, since different enzymes have different effects, the key work is to

Through experiments, select the most effective single enzyme or compound enzyme, so as to make the extraction rate the highest.

Conclusion

Enzymatic hydrolysis has the advantages of high efficiency and low pollution in the extraction of active ingredients of natural products, and is an important development direction of green extraction technology. The use of green enzymatic technology to replace highly polluting chemical technology has attracted people's attention, and it is of great significance to promote the sustainable development of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.