The plant extract is a plant-derived material, and according to the needs of the extracted final product, the physicochemical extraction and separation process is used to obtain and concentrate one or more active ingredients in the plant without changing the effective structure. And the product formed. Plant extracts are an important part of biomedicine.
Plant extracts are an emerging industry. Although some countries in Europe began to produce and apply plant extracts in the early nineteenth century, they were still in their infancy, not in scale, not to mention an industry. It was not until the early 1880s that a wave of “return to nature” was set up around the world. After feeling the negative effects of chemical synthetic drugs, people felt a sense of security for pure natural Chinese herbal medicines, which made the development of plant extracts rapid. Unstoppable, followed by Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy and other countries have begun to produce Chinese herbal extracts and used in traditional Chinese medicine health food.
Plant extract market size
In recent years, the steady growth of demand for plant extracts in developed countries and regions, especially in Europe and the United States, has greatly stimulated the development of the industry. According to the data of the “Plant Extract Industry Production and Sales Demand and Investment Forecast Analysis Report” published by the Foresight Industry Research Institute, the global plant extract sales reached US$10.14 billion in 2006 and reached US$33.32 billion in 2016. The average annual market development speed is about It is 12.63%.
Plant extract competition pattern
At present, in many countries around the world, botanicals have become more popular drugs for consumers, but there are large differences in the consumption of botanicals in different countries and regions. Globally, natural medicines are concentrated in three major regions: Asia, Europe and the United States. According to Freedonia Group, the market demand for natural medicines will grow at a rate of 13% per year. Multi-channel information shows that the increase in demand for natural medicines in Western countries is an important factor driving the rapid rise of the natural medicine market.
In the context of the growing global herbal market, in 2016, the global plant extract market continued to rise, and it has formed a situation in which the top four are beautiful, German, Japanese and French. Germany's plant extract market is growing faster than the United States, and plant extract sales account for 22.68% of the global total; while the United States still maintains a large advantage, accounting for 22.21% of the scale; followed by Japan, its plant extract The global market share of the market is 19.75%, which is about to break through 20%; France accounts for 13.21%. After rapid development in recent years, China's position in the world has become increasingly important, and the market share of plant extracts has reached 7.16%.
Plant extract development trend
1. Will become a new hot spot in the world drug market and R&D
Of the chemical drugs produced worldwide, 25% are originally derived from plants, the most famous of which are aspirin, quinine, foxglove, vinblastine and taxol. At present, there are two trends in the development of botanicals: one is the component research method represented by the United States (ie, the method of western medicine, the single-molecule structure drug refined by plants), and the other is the EU country represented by Germany. Component research method. Compared with the component research method, this method is more convenient for commercial development and more in line with the reality of the Chinese botanical drug industry.
As the European botanical market has developed more maturely from the aspects of policies and regulations, technical level and consumer psychology, it is a convenient way for domestic enterprises to enter the international botanical market through the EU.
2. Demand as a natural health product will continue to grow
Recent studies have shown that a large number of "modern diseases" such as coronary heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes in modern society have a great relationship with people's daily diet. It is recognized that certain natural plant extracts may have health care or even have the effect of preventing and treating certain diseases, and it is better to take medicines than to use natural health foods to prevent diseases.
International demand for botanicals is growing. Consumer demand for organically grown herbs is growing, and this trend will continue; plant formulas with sufficient scientific evidence are increasing, helping to bring the distance between health food stores and the mass market closer.
