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Identification & Functionality
- Chemical Family
Features & Benefits
- Benefit Claims (Health)
- Labeling Claims
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Gymnema sylvestre is a herb native to the tropical forests of southern and central India and Sri Lanka. It is also known as gymnema, cowplant, Australian cowplant, gurmari, gurmarbooti, gurmar, periploca of the woods, meshasringa, Bedki cha pala and miracle fruit. Chewing the leaves destroys the ability to discriminate the “sweet” taste, giving it its common name, gurmar, or “sugar destroyer.” The major bioactive constituents of G. sylvestre are a group of oleanane-type triterpenoid saponins known as gymnemic acids. Besides this, other plant constituents are flavones, anthraquinones, hentriacontane, pentatriacontane, α and β-chlorophylls, phytin, resins, d-quercitol, tartaric acid, formic acid, butyric acid, lupeol, β-amyrin-related glycosides and stigmasterol.
Applications & Uses
- Applications
- Food & Nutrition Applications