Fighting off Obesity Blueberry Extract Pterostilbene

• Certification: ISO, FDA, HACCP, Kosher, Halal
• Assay Method: UV
• Application Form: Suppository, Paste, Tablet, Capsule
• Application: Food, Health Care Products, Medicine
• State: Powder
• Extract Source: Berry
• Model NO.: 537-42-8
• Product Name: Blueberry Extract
• Botanical Source: Vaccinium Corymbosuml.
• Plant Parts Used: Berry
• Active Ingredient: Pterostilbene
• Appearance: Fine Purple-Red Powder
• Solubility: Soluble in Water
• CAS No: 537-42-8
• Transport Package: Packed in Fiber Drum, LDPE Bag Inside
• Specification: Pterostilbene 20%
• Trademark: KINGHERBS
• Origin: China
• HS Code: 2938909090
• Production Capacity: 5000kgs/Month

Product Description

Pterostillbene

Product Name: Blueberry extract pterostilbene
Botanical Source: Vaccinium uliginosum Linn
Active ingredient: Pterostilbene
Color:Fine Purple-red Powder
Specification:Pterostilbene 1%,8%,10%,14%,20%
Extract Solvents: Ethanol & Water

What is Pterostillbene?

Pterostilbene (terro-still-bean) is a Stilbenoid, an antioxidant produced by plants to protect themselves against viral, bacterial, fungal attack and excessive sunlight much like another in the same family: Resveratrol. Pterostilbene is most abundant in Blueberries.
Reservatrol has been known for being in the skins of red grapes as an active ingredient, thought to be responsible for the French Paradox : The french have heart healthy and healthier lives than most on their type of diet (as whole, they eat an inflammatory, artery clogging, pro diabetes and pro cancer diet. But thanks to their love of red wine and the Resveratrol it contains, they are not prone to these diseases). Reservatrol has also been identified for other properties, including anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer.
Pterostilbene is a very similar molecule to Resveratrol's, but where Resveratrol has three hydroxyl groups at its extremities, two of them are replaced with methoxy groups in Pterostilbene. This difference makes Pterostilbene far more bioavailable than Resveratrol:
It's more easily absorbed through the stomach lining and cell membranes and stays in one's system longer, giving it similar, but more powerful effects.

Intake of the phenolic compound pterostilbene could help to battle obesity by slashing body fat, according to new research in rats.

The study, published in the Journal of the Agricultural and Food Chemistry, investigated whether the intake of pterostilbene - a molecule similar to resveratrol - impacted body fat and obesity in rats after previous research suggested that phenolic compounds including resveratrol can help to fight fat.

Led by Saioa Gómez-Zorita from the University of the Basque Country, Spain, the authors said the research is the first pre-clinical piece of work that analyses the effects of the phenolic compound on obesity in an animal model - finding that in a rat model of obesity pterostilbene slashed levels of body fat.

"Pterostilbene shows antiobesity properties due, at least in part, to reduced lipogenesis in adipose tissue and increased fatty acid oxidation in liver," wrote the team.

These promising results, which have resulted in a patent, could be the starting point for conducting future studies on intervention in humans and designed to confirm this anti-obesity effect, said the team.

Obesity and pterostilbene

The team noted that while traditional guidelines for preventing and reversing obesity include following a low-calorie diet and doing moderate physical activity over the long term, the effectiveness of these strategies is limited and the success achieved is not always the desired one.

In this context, including functional ingredients in the diet has opened up new perspectives, including the potential for phenolic compounds to fight fat, they said - noting that pterostilbene is present in small amounts in a whole range of foods and beverages like grapes, blueberries, peanuts and red wine and widely consumed by humans.