Reduced Glutathione (GSH) is an important substance in cells. It is composed of glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine, and contains sulfhydryl groups. It plays an important role in maintaining the biological function of cells and has a variety of biochemical functions, including participation in The tricarboxylic acid cycle and sugar metabolism are the coenzymes of glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase and triose phosphate dehydrogenase. Chemicalbook can activate a variety of enzymes, promote the metabolism of sugar, fat and protein, and affect the metabolic process of cells; The free radicals and electrophilic groups are combined and converted into easily metabolized acid substances, which accelerates the excretion of free radicals, protects cells from damage, reduces the toxic effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and protects renal tubules from cisplatin damage.
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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