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Not only as a mulberry silkworms rations, it is a kind of Chinese herbal medicines. The earliest texts of Chinese medicine in China, “Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic,” a book entry has been included with mulberry leaves. As early as 1992, China’s Ministry of Health has mulberry leaves as edible Chinese herbal medicine is one. According to modern research, mulberry leaf contains extremely wide range of nutrients and active ingredients. Hectogram protein-containing dried mulberry leaves 8 to 12 grams, contains 17 amino acids, vitamin E, B1, B2, B5, B12 and β-carotene and other substances. Mulberry leaves also contain different flavonoids quercetin and other ingredients, Achyranthes sterol, adenine, GABA (γ-amino butyric acid) and choline and other active ingredients. According to Japanese scholars reported that mulberry leaves contain the active ingredient for a maximum of l-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ), which is a potent hypoglycemic substances, can effectively reduce postprandial hyperglycemia. In a variety of plant leaves, mulberry leaves can be called the role of nutrition and health care, one of the most comprehensive of the leaves.

My Chinese medicine for the treatment of mulberry leaves generally “Hyperactivity,” or wind-heat diseases (such as traditional Chinese medicine classics party “Sangju drink”). Japanese scholar said: mulberry leaves can be used as lipid-lowering, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood sugar, inhibit cancer cells, regulation of epinephrine, enhance the body resistance, anti-stress effect, and sleep and many other uses. Japanese researchers have done experiments using freeze grinding process will be fed fresh mulberry leaves processed into powder of high blood sugar in rats, resulting in a continuous consumption of 1 month after the rats regained normal range of blood glucose. This result aroused immediately after the release of European and American countries attach great importance to health food industry, because diabetes has become one of the high incidence in developed countries. Therefore, Mulberry hypoglycemic type of health products in the market development space very large.

Mulberry why is such an excellent hypoglycemic effect? According to analysis, this is due to fresh mulberry leaves contain a natural intestinal absorption of glucose inhibit the activity of the material – l-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ), which in the intestine can block the absorption of glucose (similar to “α glucoside enzyme inhibitor “class of drug effect). Some scholars have speculated that: mulberry leaf contains polysaccharide components, in coordination with hypoglycemic effect. All in all, hypoglycemic effect of mulberry leaves has been unanimously recognized international nutrition circles.

Japan is the world’s first research and development of mulberry leaves of health food in the world. Japan in the early 90s of the last century has been mulberry health food market, is currently on the market for several dozens of Japanese mulberry type of health food, the annual production value of up to several billion yen. Such as the mulberry leaf tea, mulberry leaf – barley tea, mulberry leaf – Persimmon tea, mulberry leaf oral solution, mulberry leaf sushi, mulberry leaf biscuits, cakes and other nutritious mulberry health food. In the United States market, there are mulberry leaf tea, mulberry, and other oral solution containing mulberry leaf extract of health products. Japan’s annual demand for 200,000 tons of feed-grade mulberry leaves about medical / health food uses mulberry leaves 50 thousand tons, but because of Japan’s land mass is small, needed more from my country or mulberry leaves Vietnam, Laos and other countries import. The United States in recent years, mulberry leaf tea beverage market health-care sales have increased year by year, are Mulberry health care tea, and mulberry juice products with annual sales in the U.S. and European markets for several millions of dollars.

As the international market, mulberry leaf tea type of health food hot, my mulberry health food industry also started, such as the establishment in 2002, namely, a Beijing Chaoyang biotech companies specializing in kinds of mulberry and export of mulberry leaves and mulberry leaves health-care professional company in food processing. In recent years, China’s mulberry type of health product development began to accelerate, the market already mulberry leaf tea, mulberry leaf chewable, mulberry leaf powder, mulberry leaf nutrients and other health products. However, propaganda is not enough, although the mulberry leaf health food market, is very popular in developed countries, but in China’s markets has not yet really started. China still maintains the world’s largest amount of mulberry trees, it is nothing less than a rich mulberry resources. Therefore, the development of mulberry leaf health food market prospects are very bright.