Glutathione is an antioxidant that can help scavenge free radicals in the body. Excessive free radicals in the body can cause cell damage, and cell damage is the cause of many diseases. Glutathione can help prevent the development of diseases and protect immunity system.
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.
Glutathione comes in two forms, reduced (G-SH) and oxidized (G-S-S-G). Glutathione is basically reduced under physiological conditions. Glutathione reductase catalyzes the conversion of the two types, and its coenzyme provides NADPH for the by-pass metabolism of pentose phosphate.
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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