Bulk Saffron Extract Powder

What is Saffron Extract Powder？

Bulk Saffron extract Powder is a natural essence extracted from precious saffron, rich in unique bioactive ingredients such as crocin and crocetin. With its excellent antioxidant capacity and significant anti-inflammatory properties, it can effectively improve skin quality, reduce wrinkles, soothe sensitivity and enhance skin defense in the field of skin care. At the same time, it also has deep health benefits such as promoting cardiovascular health and neuroprotection. This makes saffron extract a popular high-value natural raw material in the fields of medicine, skin care products and food.​

Main ingredients of Saffron extract

Crocin: One of the main active ingredients, it is a water-soluble carotenoid with significant biological activity.

Crocetin: It has a strong antioxidant effect, can scavenge free radicals and delay aging.

Safranal: A volatile oil component that gives saffron its unique aroma and may be beneficial to health.

Main effects of Saffron extract

Antioxidant: Crocin, crocetin and other ingredients can effectively scavenge free radicals, increase the activity of antioxidant enzymes in cells, and delay aging.

Anti-inflammatory: It can inhibit the release of inflammatory mediators, reduce inflammatory reactions and swelling, and has potential therapeutic effects on a variety of inflammatory diseases.

Protect cardiovascular: It can dilate blood vessels, increase coronary blood flow, reduce blood viscosity, prevent thrombosis, and is beneficial to cardiovascular health.

Neuroprotection: It can reduce apoptosis of nerve cells, improve cognitive function, and have a certain protective effect on neurological diseases.

Application of Saffron extract

Medical field: It is used to develop antidepressants and drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular and nervous system diseases.

Cosmetic field: It is used in skin care products to have the effects of anti-aging, wrinkle reduction, improvement of skin inflammation and enhancement of skin's resistance to ultraviolet rays.

Food field: It is used as a natural colorant and seasoning in functional foods and beverages to add golden color and unique aroma.

Why choose our Bulk Saffron Extract Powder？

Natural better ingredients

Our Bulk Saffron Extract Powder is selected from high-quality saffron, and is rich in core bioactive ingredients such as crocin, crocetin, and safranal to ensure that the product is natural and effective.

Quality assurance

We use advanced technology to ensure the high purity, high concentration and stability of active ingredients of the extract powder, providing you with reliable and consistent high-quality raw materials.

One-stop solution

Whether it is pharmaceutical research and development, high-end skin care product formulation or functional food innovation, our saffron extract powder can meet your diverse needs and is your trusted partner.

Crocin: Benefits for Eye Vision,Memory,Cognition,Motor Function and Physical Health

Nervous system health has gradually become the focus of attention for middle-aged and elderly people, especially neurodegenerative diseases related to aging, such as ophthalmic diseases (macular degeneration, glaucoma), cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, etc. These neurodegenerative diseases not only affect vision, but also cause blindness in severe cases. They also seriously affect memory, thinking ability, cognitive function and motor coordination, greatly reducing the quality of life. Studies have shown that crocin can not only protect the optic nerve, brain nerves and spinal nerves from a variety of damaging factors, but also enhance the vitality, plasticity and regeneration of neurons. Supplementing crocin helps significantly improve health in many aspects, including vision, memory, cognitive function, mood regulation, sleep quality, motor ability and overall health.

Improvement and protection of visual health

Clinical studies in recent years have shown that crocin can significantly improve macular function, reduce intraocular pressure, and enhance visual clarity. Its powerful antioxidant action helps reduce oxidative stress and blue-white light damage in the eye, promotes retinal health, and supports healthy intraocular pressure levels. Crocin outperforms formulas containing lutein and zeaxanthin, making it an important supplement for improving macular disease, glaucoma, and maintaining vision and long-term eye health.

Enhance memory and maintain cognitive function

The neuroprotective effect of crocin has been widely confirmed, and its effects include improving memory, enhancing learning ability and clarity of thinking. It can effectively support long-term brain health and concentration by promoting the generation of new neurons in the brain (neuroregeneration) and increasing the level of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). This makes crocin an ideal choice for those who want to avoid and improve Alzheimer's/dementia, enhance cognitive ability, improve memory and stabilize mood.

Memory cognitive function improvement

Improve motor function and relieve tremors

Crocin can improve motor skills, balance, and body coordination in Parkinson's patients by reducing oxidative stress and supporting the activity of dopamine in the brain. It can also naturally relieve tremors, stiffness and movement difficulties, avoid and reduce falls, reduce discomfort, increase the range of motion of joints, and improve endurance and overall athletic ability.

Emotional balance and stress relief

Crocin is known for its ability to regulate BDNF, serotonin and dopamine levels, which can effectively help reduce stress and enhance emotional health. Multiple clinical trials have confirmed its positive effects on emotional regulation, which can help relieve anxiety, promote a positive and peaceful attitude towards life, and add more optimism and positive energy to daily life.

Improve sleep quality and recovery

Crocin can significantly improve sleep quality and sleep duration. By regulating the sleep and wake cycles, saffron can help people enter deeper sleep, thereby better restoring physical and mental vitality. For those who have difficulty getting good sleep, saffron is a natural and safe supplement option that helps improve the quality of rest at night and improve vitality during the day.

Promote healthy and graceful aging

Saffron has become an important supplement to support healthy and graceful aging with its powerful antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties. Clinical studies have shown that it protects cells from oxidative damage, thereby increasing vitality, improving skin health, and supporting overall body well-being. By defending against environmental stressors, reducing discomfort, and protecting physical and mental health, saffron promotes a natural, healthy aging process.

Enhance physical fitness and performance

By reducing oxidative stress and regulating inflammatory responses, clinical studies have shown that crocin can significantly improve cardiopulmonary function, physical performance, energy levels and endurance. Athletes and people with active lifestyles can benefit from it because crocin helps improve strength, mood and overall vitality, ensuring optimal performance during exercise and daily activities while supporting long-term health.

Crocin: Anti-aging and cellular energy effects

Aging is a complex process, in which mitochondrial dysfunction is one of the most important factors, playing a key role in energy metabolism, cellular health and the aging process of the entire organism.

The latest Indian research found that crocin improved mitochondrial function in elderly mice by increasing oxygen diffusion, which can improve the energy level of cells in elderly mice, significantly improve memory, exploratory behavior, coordination, and increase ATP and NAD+ levels in important organs such as the brain and heart, delaying brain aging and extending the average lifespan by 17.7%.

Crocin has the unique ability to adjust the orderly arrangement of water molecules in plasma, which significantly promotes the effective diffusion and penetration of oxygen, ensuring that oxygen can smoothly reach and nourish those tissue areas damaged by hypoxia. Therefore, crocin has shown potential application prospects in the treatment of a variety of diseases caused by low oxygen saturation.

In order to explore the molecular mechanism of crocin on mouse memory behavior, the researchers performed whole transcriptome sequencing on the mouse hippocampus. The results showed that crocin treatment caused significant changes in gene expression, including upregulation of genes related to improved brain function and behavior such as BDNF, GBBR2, GAD2 and DROSHA, and downregulation of genes such as HCK, AMIGO3, TOP1MT and LCP1. Mitochondrial electron transport chain (ETC)-related genes were significantly upregulated, further supporting the molecular mechanism of crocin in improving brain function.

In addition, long-term treatment with crocin not only increased ATP and NAD+ levels in the heart, kidneys, lungs, and liver, but also significantly increased the metabolic rate of these organs. Although no significant biochemical and hematological changes were found (except for platelet counts), crocin treatment improved neuromuscular coordination and grip strength in mice. And, most significantly, crocin prolonged the median survival time of mice from 744 days to 876 days, an increase of 17.7%.

Mouse lifespan test

The study revealed that the anti-aging effect of crocin goes far beyond the positive impact on the brain. It also significantly optimizes the energy metabolism process of core organs such as the lungs, liver, heart and kidneys. Crocin comprehensively improves the energy conversion efficiency of various tissue cells by promoting the enhancement of oxygen supply in the body, thereby contributing to the positive role of extending the life of the organism.

In summary, the results show that crocin improves mitochondrial function by increasing oxygen supply, significantly improves memory, exploratory behavior, coordination, and increases ATP and NAD+ levels in important organs such as the brain and heart, delaying brain aging. Genetic analysis showed that crocin increases brain energy by upregulating genes related to oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS), and long-term use does not cause oxidative stress. The above results indicate that crocin is expected to be used to delay aging and treat related diseases.

What are the advantages of taking saffron extract compared to flower silk?

Saffron is very useful for some people with premenstrual abdominal pain, menstrual discomfort, sub-healthy people, insomnia people, headaches or people under great stress, and the effective dose is very low. Taking 30 mg of five times concentrated saffron extract every day is equivalent to 150 mg of saffron filaments. Calculated based on 300 filaments per gram, it is equivalent to eating 45 filaments a day, but the actual cost is far lower than the price of the same amount of filaments on the market, which is very cost-effective. Moreover, bulk saffron extract powder is very mild, will not cause side effects such as getting angry, and is safer. With the increasing attention paid to sleep health, the future market of saffron is very worth looking forward to.

Which groups of people should use saffron with caution?

Pregnant women and women who are planning to get pregnant: Saffron may stimulate the contraction of uterine smooth muscles and increase the risk of miscarriage or premature birth. It is forbidden to use during pregnancy, and women who are planning to get pregnant need to consult a doctor.

Lactating women: There is currently a lack of relevant safety research. Lactating women should try to avoid using it, or use it under the guidance of a doctor.

Infants and children: There is currently a lack of relevant safety research. Infants and children should try to avoid using it, or use it under the guidance of a doctor.

People taking anticoagulants: People taking anticoagulants will increase the risk of bleeding if they take crocetin at the same time.

People with high blood pressure: Saffron may interact with high blood pressure drugs, and taking it at the same time may cause low blood pressure.

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