The development trends of aloe vera extract in the international market
by Lee Dora none
Aloe is a kind of
perennial Liliaceae succulent herbaceous plant, originated in Africa, belonging to tropical plant.
The cultivation of aloe can be both in the open field and greenhouse. Aloe vera
is a kind of plant which has edible, beautify, health care and medicine functions
as well as ornamental features. Aloe has complex composition, generally can be
divided into 6 major categories: Anthraquinone compounds, polysaccharides and
derivatives, organic acids and amino acids, enzymes and peptides, steroids and
vitamins, minerals and the like. For convenience to process, use, transport and
sell, many companies are processed the aloe leaf into various extracts and
products. Those extracts are mainly the aloe freeze-dried powder, spray powder;
aloe normal juice, concentrate juice; aloe fruit, jam, etc. The circulating products
in the market are mainly the aloe vera extract and aloe terminal products.
International market status of aloe vera extract
On the
worldwide scale, aloe vera extracts are mainly circulating in the form of
freeze-dried powder, spray powder and drying powder, it has been widely used in
cosmetics material, health food, beverages, dairy products, daily necessities,
medicine and other fields. According to statistics, the world's annual sales of
aloe raw material and its products were exceeded 65 billion dollars in 1997.
Experts estimate that within the next ten years, the world's output value of
aloe industry will exceed 100 billion dollars.
United States is the country which developed and applied the most aloe products.
Began to develop in 1950s, the late 1970s and early 1980s United States
has been prevailing on use aloe products, then the aloe nose-dive, finally
embarked on a steady and healthy development. Now, various items for people
basic necessities in the U.S.
supermarket are related to aloe. It has been developed more than 1500 kinds of
aloe-containing products, produce over 10,000 tons of aloe vera gel, supplying
for Europe and dozens of countries in the
world.
The
United States has advanced aloe processing equipments, the main products
include aloe industrial raw materials; there also have aloe terminal products,
such as aloe series health food, aloe series beauty skin care products, aloe
series daily necessities. These products are praised in the market as the
"timeless life products". In Europe,
people are rarely planted aloe, there are mainly research on aloe vera extract,
developed a series of products. People often purchase the qualifying aloe
powder to deep process, produce various foods, cosmetics, nutritional products
and pharmaceuticals. French are mainly purchasing aloe vera extract to apply in cosmetics, while
Germany are mainly apply in the food, beer and other fields. European demand
for a great amount of aloe vera extract, they are very particular about the
quality and production processes of aloe vera extract, including the active
ingredient content, freshness, production plants, processing requirements
specifications.
In
Japan, various medicines, beauty, cosmetics, food and beverage products are
made from
aloe vera extract, they are very popular, sold to all over the world, the annual
sales are over 20 billion dollars. Japan is very interested in Chinese
medicine, traditional Chinese medicine with high level of modernization, the application
of aloe vera extract has two forms, one is directly freeze-dried the qualified
aloe leaf, grinding into flour, then add it to the product; another is
extracting, separating, purifying the active ingredient in aloe, then prepared
a variety of products. Aloe vera extract in Korea is mainly used in food,
beverage and nutritional products. Japan and Korea are mainly imported the aloe
powder from the United States and China, aloe fruit is imported from Thailand,
China and other places. The price gap of various aloe vera extracts is larger.
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