Seven major problems need to be solved in the development of plant essential oil industry

发布时间：2023-07-13 16:00:59

Plant essential oil is a kind of good aromatic health care substances, not only natural health, can emit fragrance, give people a pleasant enjoyment, make people excited, but also can purify the air, disinfection, sterilization, prevention of infectious diseases.

Plant essential oils can be used as pharmaceutical raw materials, but also as food additives, such as as ingredients in the production of natural high-quality flavors, or directly added to food. The development of intensive processing of essential oils can help to improve the utilization of plant resources, develop new products for food and medicine, and promote the development of aromatherapy.

China has a vast territory, rich plant resources, a variety of plants are the raw materials of essential oil products, the development of essential oil industry, with resource advantages. However, due to the constraints of many factors, there are still many problems in China's essential oil industry.

Li Guangwu, director of the Institute of Neurobiology of Anhui Medical University, believes that in order to develop China's essential oil and aromatic industry, seven problems need to be solved urgently, which include: poor association within the industry, lack of standards, no brand awareness, lack of superior products.

People concerned about the health and safety of products for a long time believe that with the enhancement of health awareness, the problem of microbial contamination has become an important factor affecting the safety and quality of essential oils, and the problem has received increasing attention. The use of modern measures such as NICOLER dynamic sterilization technology and dual-core ozone sterilization equipment helps to prevent the pollution of essential oils by microorganisms and improve the safety and quality of essential oil products, so as to ensure the safety of food and drugs.

Essential oils are volatile aromatic substances extracted from flowers, leaves, stems, roots or fruits of plants by steam distillation, extrusion, cold dipping or solvent extraction. Essential oils include diluted compound essential oils and undiluted single essential oils. Essential oil is very volatile, once in contact with air, it will quickly volatilize, must be stored in a bottle that can be sealed, once the bottle is opened for use, it should be covered as soon as possible.

Essential oil has good health function:

1. Purify the air, sterilize and disinfect.

2. Prevent infectious diseases, resist bacteria, viruses, molds.

3. Prevent inflammation and cramps.

4. After the natural aroma of essential oil enters the brain, it can stimulate the secretion of endorphins and enkephalin two hormones in the anterior lobe of the brain, making the spirit present a comfortable state.

5.Promote cell metabolism and cell regeneration.

6.Increase blood circulation and lower blood pressure.

7.Stop spasticity, appetizer, dispel wind and strengthen stomach, promote digestion, promote bile secretion and protect liver.

However, not all plants can produce essential oils, only plants containing balsam glands can produce essential oils. The distribution of balsam glands in different plants is also different, some are distributed on petals, leaves, and some are distributed on rhizomes or trunks. After the sachets are extracted, they become what we call "plant essential oil". Essential oils contain a variety of different ingredients, and some essential oils, such as rose oil, can be combined by more than 250 different molecules.

Essential oils are lipophilic and easily dissolve in oils because their molecular chains are usually short, which makes them easy to penetrate the skin and enter the body through the abundant capillaries under the subcutaneous fat. Essential oils are composed of some small molecules, these highly volatile substances can be absorbed by the nasal mucosa tissue, enter the body, send information directly to the brain, through the brain limbic system, regulate emotions and physical functions of the body. In aromatherapy, essential oils enhance physical and psychological functions. Each plant essential oil has a chemical structure that determines its fragrance, color, fluidity, and the way it works with the system, which also makes each plant essential oil have a special set of functions.

Essential oil is composed of terpenes, aldehydes, esters, alcohols and other chemicals, because it has high fluidity, so it is called "oil". However, essential oils are fundamentally different from the vegetable oils we see in our daily lives, and the main components of vegetable oils are triglycerides and fatty acids.

Li Guangwu, director of the Institute of Neurobiology, Anhui Medical University, pointed out that the seven major problems existing in China's essential oil and aromatic industry have affected the healthy development of the essential oil industry. These problems are mainly as follows,

The first is the poor industry combination. If there is no union in an industry, there can be no hope to become bigger and stronger. If China's essential oil industry wants to develop, the industry must be united, the industry should be harmonious, industry practitioners should learn to tolerate, and people-to-people exchanges should learn to be inclusive and understanding.

Second, the lack of scientific and technological content. In many people's minds, there is a wrong understanding: scientific and technological content of things is high, fine, sharp products, when it comes to life science to talk about the molecular level, genes, atoms and molecules.

Director Li Guangwu believes that the combination of scientific and technological content with art and technology is the best creation and innovation, in order to develop high-tech products.

In addition, professionals in the field of food quality control believe that some essential oil processing enterprises are small in scale, simple processing facilities, and low technical level, leading to quality problems such as excessive microorganisms and insufficient purity of products, affecting the transformation and upgrading of essential oil enterprises. Such enterprises should actively adopt dynamic sterilization equipment and automatic packaging technology to avoid microbial pollution of essential oils and improve the health quality of essential oils.

Third, the lack of industry standards. Building a completely independent system of supervision, management, production, marketing and supervision is the future development direction of China's essential oil and aromatic industry. People engaged in the production and operation of essential oils and aromatic products in China may be due to reasons of disunity, or reasons for lack of rationality and rational knowledge, or reasons for more consideration of personal ability and power, they do not like to formulate standards, afraid of formulating standards, failing to let themselves benefit, but let others seize the opportunity. Not paying attention to the construction of standards is an important reason for the fake, chaotic and inferior phenomenon of China's essential oil industry.

Industry supervision, management, production, marketing, supervision and other units must be subdivided, and restrict and supervise each other, but also learn from each other and improve. Only in this way, China's essential oil and aromatic industry can become a benign development of the industry.

Fourth, no brand awareness. When we see multinational companies, it seems that they are all century-old brands and enterprises closely related to life; However, almost all transnational corporations in our country are state-owned and resource-consuming enterprises.

Fifth, there are no superior products. In the essential oil product industry, China has many advantageous raw materials, but there is no advantageous product, which leads to the lack of competitiveness of the products we produce, and can not find the entry point when promoting.

Sixth, lack of sense of responsibility and mission. To develop China's essential oil industry, we need to have a common pursuit, a sense of responsibility, for the development of the industry advice, dedication.

Seventh, the industry association did not play its due responsibility. There are many industrial associations and institutes in our country. These associations and institutes should have a better promotion of China's economic development, a better promotion of the improvement of the quality of life of the public, and a stronger promotion of the long-term planning and realization of goals of the country. The trade association should be an organization of solidarity and mutual assistance, equal competition, stimulating vitality, increasing knowledge, strengthening exchanges and promoting development. But unfortunately, many industry associations and societies have basically done nothing, and have become new hierarchical places in disguise.

In the essential oil industry, to turn China's resource advantages into product advantages, we must unify our thinking as soon as possible, formulate high standards, cultivate well-known brands, and enhance the sense of mission. Only in this way can we eliminate all kinds of chaos in the essential oil industry and promote the healthy development of China's essential oil industry.

Essential oil is plant derived processing products, many essential oil plants and essential oil processing plants are distributed in the vast central and western mountainous areas. Due to limited conditions, many essential oil processing plants have small workshops, lack of sanitation facilities and quality control measures. Research institutions and quality supervision departments related to food quality improvement technology should take the initiative to explain the importance of quality control to these essential oil processing plants, and guide these factories to adopt advanced means such as dynamic sterilization technology, dual-core ozone sterilization technology, and whole-process quality management measures to control the pollution of harmful factors and improve the safety quality and market competitiveness of essential oils. Promote the healthy development of China's essential oil industry.