Liver care products, which raw materials are used?

In recent years, lifestyle changes have led to increased consumption of fast food and alcohol, and the prevalence of liver diseases such as liver cancer, fatty liver disease, severe cirrhosis and obesity in the global population has also increased year by year, with an estimated 905,677 (4.7%) new liver cancer cases worldwide in 2020, according to GLOBOCAN data. 830,180 (8.3%) deaths were due to liver cancer, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 4.5 million adults in the United States were diagnosed with liver disease in 2018.

Liver care products, which raw materials are used?

1.China

The top 5 ingredients used are kudzu, ganoderma lucidum, schisandra, goji berry and hovenia jujuba. These 34 raw materials, in addition to Ganoderma lucidum, schisandra and other health food available raw materials, other basic medicine and food homologous raw materials.

2) Japan

Among the functional foods declared in Japan in 2022 and the first quarter of this year, functional foods that claim to have liver protection function are mainly made of two raw materials, one is sulforaphane glucoside thioglyceride and the other is curcumin.

Sulforaphane glucosides (SGS)

Sulforaphane glucoside is present in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables, and a Japanese study found that the continuous intake of sulforaphane glucoside in the elderly can reduce liver damage caused by oxidative stress and help improve the level of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) in the blood.

• Curcumin
• A mouse experiment found that curcumin protects the liver from chronic alcohol-induced damage, alleviates liver histopathological changes and lipid accumulation, and modifies levels of common biomarkers.
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• 3.America
   
  SPINS analyzed 2018 sales from U.S. natural foods, specialty foods, and traditional multi-channel retailers for the 52 weeks ending December 30, 2018, and found that the top 10 ingredient categories in terms of sales in the liver-supported category were: Milk thistle, Ayurvedic herbs - Other, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), dandelion, inositol, artichoke, turmeric, mushroom - chaga mushroom and digestive enzymes - Other. Milk thistle sales led the way, reaching $22,747,756.57 million, up 2.1% compared to 2017.