Glutathione is widely found in animals and plants and plays an important role in living organisms. The content is very high in baker's yeast, wheat germ and animal liver, up to 100-1000mg/100g, in human blood 26-34mg/100g, in tomatoes, pineapples, cucumbers are also higher (12-33mg/100g ), while the content in sweet potatoes, mung bean sprouts, onions and mushrooms is lower (0.06-0.7mg/100g).
Its main physiological function is to remove free radicals in the human body, and as an important antioxidant in the body, it can protect the sulfhydryl groups in many proteins and enzymes. For example, when a small amount of H2O2 is generated in cells, GSH reduces H2O2 to H2O under the action of glutathione peroxidase, which itself is oxidized to GSSG, which is reduced by glutathione present in liver and red blood cells Under the action of enzymes, H is reduced to GSH, so that the scavenging reaction of free radicals in the body can continue.
Glutathione is a tripeptide containing the gamma-amide bond and the sulfhydryl group. It is composed of Amino Acid like glutamate, cysteine and glycine and is found in almost every cell of the body. Glutathione helps maintain normal immune system function and has antioxidant, integrative and detoxification effects. Sulfhydryl group for cysteine’s active group (often abbreviated as G-SH), easy to combine with some drugs, toxins, so that it has an integrated detoxification effect. Glutathione can not only be used as Health Ingredients product, but also as the base material of functional food，be widely used in the Anti-Aging, enhance immunity, anti-tumor and other functional food.
Function：
Glutathione can remove free radicals in human cells;
Glutathione can combine toxic substances in the human body and then be removed out of the human body;
Glutathione can activate and protect immune cells and strengthen the immunologic function of the humanbody;
Glutathione can affect the activity of tyrosinase in skin cells, inhibit the generation of melanin and avoid the formation of skin splash;
Glutathione to anti-allergy, or inflammation caused by hypoxemia in patients with systemic or local, can reduce cell damage and promote repairing.
Application：
1.Beauty and personal care:
eliminate wrinkles, increase skin elasticity, shrink pores, reduce Pigment, the body has an excellent whitening effect. Glutathione as a major component of cosmetics in Europe and the United States has been welcomed for decades.
2. Food & Beverage:
1, added to the surface products, can play a role in the reduction. Not only to make bread to reduce the time to the original one-half or one-third of a substantial improvement in working conditions, and play a strengthening role in food nutrition and other functions.
2, added to the yogurt and infant food, the equivalent of Vitamin C, can play a role in stabilizing agent.
3, mix it into the fish cake, can prevent the color deepens.
4, added to meat and cheese and other foods, with enhanced flavor effect.
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