How to Distinguish the quality of red ginseng extract product.
1. Checking whether the 'red ginseng beverage', or a' health functional food'.
2. Checking the ratio of red ginseng concentrate. - very critical point
3. Checking the percentage of solid(pure extract)
4. Checking the raw red ginseng blend ratio.
5. Checking the content of ginseoside(Rg1 + Rb1)
1. Distinguishing whether the 'red ginseng beverage', or a' health functional food'.
Red Ginseng concentrate product can be divided into "Red Ginseng Beverage" and "Health Functional Food".
below product is 'red ginseng beverage'.
Those classification are defined by the Korea Food and Drug Administration(KFDA)
If any products that do not pass this criterion cannot be sold.
According to the "Notice for standards of health functional food" from KFDA
According to the "Notice for standards of health functional food" from KFDA
1. Health Functional Food of Red Ginseng : total Rg1+Rb1 must be '2.4 mg / daily intake' or more.
2. Red Ginseng Beverage : there is no standard notice of the content of the component.
2. Red Ginseng Beverage : there is no standard notice of the content of the component.
- which means it's allright that 'Red Ginseng Beverage' just contain even tiny amount of ingredient of ginseng or red ginseng.
Actually, In the case of red ginseng beverage, very very little amount of red ginseng extract is included in products.
Please look at the photo below. it's best selling 'red ginseng beverage' of CKJ.
Understanding is easier if you look at the below expression.
This means that only 0.36% of total capacity is 'red ginseng extract'
please look at the graph below.
Yes, It's JUST 'beverage' which contains tiny amount of red ginseng extract!
2. Checking the ratio of red ginseng extract. - very critical point
CKJ's Extract Plus 240g
it is very important that Always try to choose 100% of red ginseng extract(홍삼농축액100%)!!
the following is the product which is currently sold much on ebay.
This extract is being sold very much because people think the price is cheap.
BUT
Looking in detail the content, it will be a little surprised because of the following reason.
1. Red ginseng extract is only 10%.
2. Rg1 + Rb1 is only 1mg/g .
Low quality product!!
Relatively decent product!
Although it has relatively good quality, I cannot say it's the best products for the reasons of No. 2, No. 3, No. 4( it is explained at below parts)
Hansamin's Hansongjeong 240g
Best Product!
There is almost no difference with CKJ
3. Checking the percentage of solids.
'65% of solid' means, after evaporating completly, 65% of pure extract is remained.
For example;
1)Assuming that the total 100g of product contain 10% of red ginseng extract and the extract contain 90% of 'red ginseng solid'.
Amount of solid(pure red ginseng extract) is 100g x 0.1 x 0.9 = 9g.
Ratio of the solid(pure red ginseng extract) in this product will be 9%.
Now, Let's compare following products.
1) CKJ's Extract Plus 240g
total content : 240g
the extract-ratio of total amount is 100% and solid-ratio of the extract is 64%
240g x 1 x 0.64 = 153.6g
this product contains 153.6g of pure red ginseng.
so, solid is 64% of the total in 240g.
so, solid is 64% of the total in 240g.
2) Extract Classic
total content : 100g
the extract-ratio of total amount is 100% and solid-ratio of the extract is 60%
100g x 1 x 0.6 = 60g
this product contains 60g of pure red ginseng.
it is 60% of the total in 100g.
it is 60% of the total in 100g.
3)Extract 365
total content(1btl) : 240g
the extract-ratio of total amount is 10% and solid-ratio of the extract is 60
240g x 0.1 x 0.6 = 14.4g
total : 240g
Solid(pure extract) : 64%
Official Price : 198,000KRW
Price per 1% of pure extract is 3093KRW
2)
total : 240g
Solid(pure extract) : 6%
price of 1 btl : 49800 / 2 = 24900KRW
Price per 1% of pure extract is 4150KRW
Come to think of it like this, it can be seen that the prices of products made by CKJ, Hansamin and Gaesung are not high at all.
Reference description for a better understanding (100g each)
1)configuration of the product which is composed of 100%-RG extract(60% of Solid)
red ginseng extract 100g(60g of solid + 40g of water)
2) configuration of the product which is composed of 10%-RG extract(60% of Solid)
red ginseng extract10g(6g of solid + 4g of water) + 90g of other ingredient
4. Checking the raw red ginseng blend ratio.
please look at the part of the green square in the photo below.
1)CKJ's Extract 240
You should know the following two words in advance. :)
body has a lot of active saponin and radicle contains components which gives bitter taste.
Of course, the higher contents of body, the better effect.
the most common blending ratio is 70% of body and 30% of radicle
5. Checking the content of ginseoside(Rg1 + Rb1)
many people judge the quality of product by looking at this number.
In fact, many sort of ginsenoside is in Ginseng.
Ginsenoside Ra1-3, Ginsenoside Rb1, Ginsenoside Rb2, Ginsenoside Rb3, Ginsenoside Rc, Ginsenoside Rd, Ginsenoside Re, Ginsenoside Rf, Ginsenoside Rg1, Ginsenoside Rg2, Panaxa Diol, Panaxa Diol ... and more....
KFDA has been conducting testing of the final product , but they cannot confirm all kind of saponin
they examine the contents of only two most representative components(Rb1 and Rg1).
So the only two components are displayed on the product.(recently one kinf of element has been added.)
Of course, the higher contents of rg1 and rb1, the better effect.
However, even there seem to be lots of Rg1 + Rb1 in product,
It is not good product if the ratio of the RG extract and ratio of solid are low.
It is not good product if the ratio of the RG extract and ratio of solid are low.
For saponin, I will post it in more detail in the near future.
Thank you for reading my article.
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