Function:
1.Improve the body's resistance to fight against diseases.
2.Prevent oxidative stress.
3.Reduce fat around body organs.
4.Build strong muscles.
5.Provide nutrition to the body.
6.Improve skin problems and skin disorders.
7.Assist in solving the problem of baldness in males.
Application:
It has many important biological activities, such as reducing blood sugar, improving memory, anti allergy, anticancer, etc., as well as potential use values in food, beauty and health care products and other industry.
1.Food
Phlorizin has been approved as a kind of food additive. It is a characteristic phenolic substance in apple. Due to species, producers and other issues, the contents of phlorizin in different apples are quite different. Therefore, its content can be used as an index to distinguish the producers and qualities of apple juice. Phlorizin can promote the absorption and utilization of genistein (inhibit the growth and metastasis of tumor cells). It has a broad market in prevention and treatment of cancer to develop functional foods which rich in phlorizin and genistein. It is a high sweet natural sweetener, which can be used as an alternative food for diabetic patients. After phlorizin is oxidized by polyphenol oxidase, the products can be converted into bright yellow dyes. The dye has strong water solubility and can be used in food processing industry instead of artificial dyes to avoid the toxic effects caused by synthetic pigments. It has potential application values in the development and utilization either as a kind of food additive or as a functional food.
2.Medicine
As phlorizin is easily hydrolyzed in human body to yield the phloretin and has lower intestinal absorption rate, it is often designed to be high molecular polymer for the development of drugs with other compounds.
3.Cosmetics
The antioxidant activity and antiaging function of phlorizin have been confirmed by modern scientific researches. The hydrolysate of phlorizin, which is called phloretin, can inhibit the tyrosinase activity competitively and interfere the synthesis of melanin. Its whitening effect is better than many whitening products on the market. However, it is important to note that phlorizin increases the expression of tyrosinase genes by activating the cAMP signaling pathway, which leads to the formation of melanin.