What is the market price of kudzu root powder per jin?
Kudzu root powder is made by processing the tuberous roots of the leguminous plants wild kudzu (Pueraria lobata) and Pueraria thomsonii. It can be divided into kudzu root starch and whole kudzu root powder. The difference between the two lies in the processing technique and the content of medicinal components. It is a precious tonic suitable for all ages, enjoying the reputation of "millennial ginseng." It has both medicinal value and nutritional health benefits. Let us take a look below at how much kudzu root powder costs!
How much does kudzu root powder cost?
The price of kudzu root powder is generally around 80 to 120 yuan per jin, but the price fluctuates with different local price levels and different places of origin.
How to Identify Genuine vs. Fake Kudzu Root Powder
1. Under normal circumstances, pure kudzu root powder has a white appearance with a crystalline luster, while pale yellow kudzu root powder is of inferior quality.
2. When a small amount of pure kudzu root powder is placed in the mouth, it will quickly dissolve naturally in the mouth, with a ginseng-like taste (grassy flavor). Good kudzu root powder, even without added sugar or honey, offers a faint sweet aftertaste with no other off-flavors. Kudzu root powder that tastes sour or has a fishy, unpleasant odor should not be purchased.
3. Pure wild kudzu root powder brewed with warm water turns a milky white, milk-like consistency. After brewing with warm water and then heating, or brewing with boiling water above 90 degrees, it becomes a pale yellow paste (not gelatinous). The depth of color is affected by many factors, such as the separation of the upper yellow powder (oil powder), the number of precipitation cycles, and so on. However, kudzu root powder that easily forms a transparent paste when brewed with warm water, turns white after brewing, and is difficult to pour in a continuous stream is mostly adulterated kudzu root powder with added other starches or even talc powder.
The Production Process of Kudzu Root Powder
1. Material selection: Choose undamaged fresh kudzu roots, wash them with tap water, and remove dust and debris attached to the surface.
2. Slicing: Cut the peeled kudzu roots into slices of a certain specification using a vegetable slicer. The purpose of slicing is to shorten the drying time. The slice thickness, length, and width are all 1 cm. The slicing process should be completed in as short a time as possible to control the occurrence of enzymatic browning during slicing.
3. Color protection: After washing and peeling, the kudzu roots are treated with a mixture of 0.35% citric acid and 0.30% sodium metabisulfite for color protection for 1 hour.
4. Steaming: Color protection inhibits non-enzymatic browning, but browning caused by oxidase in kudzu roots still exists, so heating is needed to deactivate the enzymes. The process conditions involve steaming for a period of time. After steaming, kudzu roots easily maintain their color, and the whole powder is easy to brew. Steam for 16 minutes.
5. Drying: Dry with drying equipment to ensure product hygiene. The drying time can be determined according to the size of the kudzu root slices. The final moisture content is required to be below 6%. Dry in a 60°C forced-air constant-temperature drying oven.
6. Grinding and packaging: Grind the dried kudzu root slices with a traditional Chinese medicine grinder so that the fineness of the kudzu root powder is about 80 mesh.
The Effects and Benefits of Kudzu Root Powder
[Nature and Flavor] Sweet and pungent in flavor, cool in nature.
[Meridian Tropism] Lung and Stomach meridians.
[Benefits] Relieving alcohol intoxication, lowering lipids, lowering blood pressure, reducing internal heat, clearing heat and detoxifying, raising yang and releasing the flesh, relieving spasms and pain, promoting eruption and stopping diarrhea, increasing cerebral and coronary blood sugar, improving cerebral microcirculation, and other benefits. It is an important raw material for medicines preventing and treating high blood pressure, high blood lipids, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, diabetes, cerebral thrombosis, gastrointestinal diseases, and many other conditions. It also has special benefits for women's beauty and fitness.
1. Relieving alcohol intoxication: Regarding kudzu root's ability to relieve alcohol intoxication, ancient texts recorded this long ago. "On the Nature of Medicines" states that kudzu root "opens the appetite and promotes digestion, mainly relieves alcohol toxicity, and stops restlessness and thirst." "Supplement to the Materia Medica" records that kudzu root powder "relieves alcohol toxicity." "Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold" has the saying, "Take one dou and two sheng of kudzu root juice and drink it to treat unconsciousness from drunkenness."
2. Removing greasiness and relieving heat, eliminating phlegm and stopping cough, lowering blood sugar, and protecting cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health: Wild kudzu root contains a large amount of dietary fiber, which can improve constipation, remove toxins from the body, reduce the occurrence of cancer, relieve alcohol intoxication, nourish the stomach, protect and support the liver. Regular consumption of kudzu root powder can regulate bodily functions, strengthen the constitution, improve the body's disease resistance, and combat aging and prolong life. Kudzu isoflavones have relatively high phytoestrogens, which can activate ovarian vitality and make the skin smooth and delicate.
3. Cooling and reducing internal heat: Puerarin extracted from kudzu root has the effect of dilating coronary arteries and cerebral arteries, can lower blood pressure, significantly increase blood supply to ischemic tissues, has a B1 receptor blocking effect, can significantly slow heart palpitations, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, alleviate myocardial ischemia, limit and reduce the scope of myocardial infarction, combat tachyarrhythmia, lower cholesterol and blood viscosity, inhibit platelet aggregation, and improve microcirculation.
4. Cancer prevention and anti-cancer: Kudzu powder contains more than ten kinds of amino acids and more than ten kinds of trace elements that the human body needs, among which calcium, zinc, and phosphorus are the highest in content. The selenium-rich element contained in kudzu powder has certain cancer-preventing and anti-cancer benefits.
5. Endocrine regulation effects: Users have reported that after consuming kudzu root powder, the following changes occurred successively: original chloasma faded and disappeared. Ovulatory bleeding disappeared, vaginal discharge became fresh and transparent (in middle-aged women), and acne noticeably subsided. The highly active isoflavones abundant in kudzu root can effectively regulate the endocrine system.