The Ginseng plant or growing ginseng
The speciality of Premium Quality Ginseng products lies in the cultivation, maturation, extraction and manufacturing technology of panax ginseng.
Let's look at them one by one!
Growing Panax Ginseng in the fields
Ginseng is grown in South Korea through a cooperative of 10 Korean farms.
The quality of the products is guaranteed:
- the annual quality audit
- the recommendation of the Korean GMP program and compliance with strict rules
The Korean GMP programme regulates the production of the crop and ensures product traceability. This guarantees a strong restriction on the use of pesticides (insecticides and bactericides) and fertilisers, as well as the quality of the crops.
The Premium Korean Ginseng products will stand the test of time, as the harvested plants can only be 6 year old specimens. Harvesting takes place in autumn (September, October). High quality ginseng can only be harvested every 8 years. In the 2 years in between, the soil is left fallow, which usually means growing rice on the land. High quality naturally comes at a higher price.
Let's see how the ginseng plant becomes a premium quality extract
Let's see how ginseng is made into a high purity extract with high quality requirements!
After harvesting, the ginseng root goes through the following processes:
- washing
- drying
- steam treatment
The production method allows the ginseng composition to be modified and optimised. To obtain red ginseng, the plant needs to be steamed once, and to obtain black ginseng, nine times. This rearranges the ratios of the ginsenoside active ingredientsin black ginseng extract, making it much more effective. (Premium Black Korean Ginseng Extract, click here!) And Enzymatic Fermented Red Ginseng Extract is the pride of Korea's 5th generation ginseng development(Enzymatic Fermented Red Ginseng Extract, click here!), , which we recommend for general use.
Since ginseng extract has 6-7 times more active ingredients than the first generation powdered version (processing the same amount of the plant), it was clear to us that we wanted to make extracts.
Just to give you a sense of the large amount of plant processing involved, we can tell you that to produce 1 kg of premium quality Ginseng extract, 7 kg of 6-year-old ginseng root is needed. It is very important to note, however, that thanks to 4-5th generation manufacturing technologies, BTGin capsules, for example, can compete with extracts, and even Saponin Plus Ginseng capsules have significantly more active ingredients than black ginseng.
But to return to the most important property of ginseng, we need 6 years precisely because as the number of years passes, many times the amount of active ingredient is produced in the plant, and at 6 years it reaches a peak that is already of use to us in a meaningful way.
The graph below shows the thickness of the roots of 2 and 6 year old plants, which is strongly correlated with the amount of active ingredient.
The factory's operation (Geumsan Dukwon Co., Ltd.) is approved by the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In order to guarantee the best quality Ginseng extract, the products are tested.
Preserve your health and boost your resistance by consuming products made from 6-year-old ginseng!
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