EXPLAINED ALCOHOL POWDERED EXTRACTS | RAW Forest Foods
EXPLAINED ALCOHOL POWDERED EXTRACTS Producing Ethanol (Alcohol) Powdered Extracts With powdered extracts, the vast majority of herbs (referring here to medicinal plants, fungi, and other substances) are produced using a method called a hot water extract (read our page on this process here). However, for some specific applications, a second method is utilized to produce powdered extracts—ethanol (alcohol) extracts. This is very similar process as a hot water extraction, but with an ethanol extract, the two distinct extraction processes happen almost in reverse. Similar to hot water powdered extracts, when extracting using ethanol as the primary substrate, all soluble compounds are captured. An ethanol powdered extract is used when those targeted compounds are more readily dissolved in ethanol (over water). For instance, while the polysaccharides present in Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) are more readily extracted using the hot water process, the equally important triterpenes in Reishi are m...