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Advanced Application of Natural Active Ingredients

Empowering the Food Additive Industry with AI-Driven Extraction & Botanical Innovation

Pioneering Natural Solutions

UniCare is a professional supplier of natural active ingredients. Our products are widely used in various fields such as dietary supplement, food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. We focus on product development and quality stability, and insist on growing together with our customers around the world.

In today's rapidly evolving food and beverage landscape, the demand for clean-label, non-synthetic additives has reached unprecedented heights. Consumers are increasingly scrutinizing product labels, seeking natural alternatives to artificial preservatives, synthetic colors, and chemical flavor enhancers. Recognizing this global paradigm shift, UniCare integrates cutting-edge artificial intelligence and advanced biotechnology to revolutionize the extraction and application of natural plant extracts.

Our commitment to excellence is deeply rooted in our operational philosophy. By leveraging predictive AI models and smart automated control systems, we optimize the extraction processes to ensure maximum yield, unparalleled purity, and robust efficacy of active botanical compounds.

UniCare has deep cooperation with several excellent Chinese manufacturers who have complete quality management system certifications, including but not limited to GMP, EUGMP, CEP, ISO9001, ISO22000, and HACCP. Each factory has independent testing capabilities and is equipped with advanced and efficient testing equipment to ensure the high quality and long-term stability of each batch of products.

Core Applications in the Food Additive Industry

Harnessing the power of nature through sophisticated technological frameworks, our botanical extracts serve as multi-functional powerhouses in food formulation. We specialize in replacing synthetic chemicals with natural plant extracts that deliver superior performance in preservation, flavor enhancement, and visual appeal.

Natural Preservatives

The transition from synthetic preservatives like BHA, BHT, and TBHQ to natural alternatives is driving the modern food industry. Our natural plant extracts possess potent antimicrobial and antifungal properties. By utilizing AI-assisted molecular screening, we identify the most effective phenolic compounds that inhibit microbial growth, thereby extending shelf life naturally while maintaining the highest safety standards for human consumption.

Flavor Stability

Oxidation is the primary enemy of flavor integrity, leading to rancidity and off-notes in lipid-rich foods. Our extracts act as formidable natural antioxidants. They neutralize free radicals and chelate metal ions that catalyze oxidation. This ensures that the original, fresh flavor profile of beverages, baked goods, and meat products remains stable throughout the product's entire lifecycle, delivering a consistent sensory experience.

Natural Freshness & Color

Maintaining the visual appeal and fresh state of food products without artificial dyes is a complex challenge. We provide plant-based colorants and freshness enhancers that protect the structural integrity of food matrices. These non-synthetic additives not only impart vibrant, stable colors resilient to UV light and heat processing but also prevent enzymatic browning, ensuring products look as fresh as they taste.

Premium Recommended Products

Our portfolio of high-performance botanical extracts is meticulously engineered to meet the stringent demands of the modern food additive sector. Each product represents the pinnacle of natural extraction, offering multi-functional benefits from natural preservation to clean-label sweetening.

🌿 Rosemary Extract

Function: Supreme Natural Antioxidant & Flavor Stabilizer

Rosemary extract is an industry-leading non-synthetic additive, celebrated for its exceptionally high concentration of carnosic acid and rosmarinic acid. These active compounds provide unparalleled antioxidant capabilities, making it an ideal natural preservative for the food industry. By effectively delaying lipid oxidation, Rosemary Extract prevents the development of rancid flavors in edible oils, meat products, and baked goods.

In the realm of flavor stability, it acts as a protective shield, ensuring that volatile flavor compounds remain intact during high-heat processing and prolonged storage. Our advanced extraction technology ensures that the characteristic aroma of rosemary is minimized, allowing it to be seamlessly integrated into diverse food matrices without altering the intended taste profile.

🍵 Tea Polyphenol Extract

Function: Natural Freshness & Broad-Spectrum Antimicrobial

Extracted from premium green tea leaves, Tea Polyphenols (particularly EGCG) are scientifically proven to be powerful natural preservatives. They exhibit strong inhibitory effects against a wide range of foodborne pathogens and spoilage organisms, significantly enhancing food safety and extending shelf life.

Beyond preservation, Tea Polyphenol Extract is a vital tool for maintaining natural freshness. It effectively inhibits enzymatic browning in fresh-cut fruits and vegetables and protects sensitive vitamins from degradation. As a clean-label additive, it is widely utilized in beverages, dairy products, and functional foods, providing dual benefits of extending shelf life and offering substantial health-promoting antioxidant properties to the end consumer.

🍃 Stevia Extract

Function: Plant-Based Sweetener & Non-synthetic Additive

As the global war on sugar intensifies, Stevia Extract stands at the forefront of the natural sweetening revolution. Extracted from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, our highly purified Rebaudioside A and Rebaudioside M offer a sweetness profile up to 300 times that of sucrose, with zero calories and zero glycemic impact.

Unlike artificial sweeteners (such as aspartame or sucralose), Stevia is a completely non-synthetic additive that aligns perfectly with clean-label initiatives. Through continuous innovation and improvement in our extraction and purification processes, we have successfully eliminated the bitter aftertaste traditionally associated with stevia. It is exceptionally stable under extreme pH and temperature conditions, making it the ultimate natural choice for carbonated beverages, confectionery, and baked goods.

🫒 Olive Leaf Extract

Function: Advanced Antimicrobial & Natural Preservative

Olive Leaf Extract is gaining massive traction in the food additive industry due to its high content of Oleuropein and Hydroxytyrosol. These phenolic compounds are formidable antimicrobial agents, capable of disrupting the cell walls of bacteria and fungi that cause food spoilage.

This extract is highly effective as a natural preservative in meat formulations, sauces, and dressings, where it not only prevents microbial proliferation but also offers secondary benefits in flavor stability by preventing the oxidation of animal fats. Its application allows manufacturers to drastically reduce or eliminate the use of synthetic nitrites and nitrates, answering the consumer call for safer, naturally preserved food products.

🍊 Citrus Extract

Function: Plant-based Colorant & Freshness Enhancer

Derived from the peels of various citrus fruits, our Citrus Extract is a rich source of bioflavonoids, including hesperidin and naringin. In the food industry, it serves a dual purpose. Firstly, it acts as an outstanding natural freshness agent, working synergistically with other antioxidants to protect food from oxidative stress.

Secondly, specialized fractions of Citrus Extract are utilized as safe, vibrant plant-based colorants and flavor modulators. They can naturally enhance the visual appeal of beverages and fruit preparations while masking off-notes from other functional ingredients. As a 100% natural, non-synthetic additive, Citrus Extract embodies the perfect synergy of visual enhancement, flavor stability, and natural preservation.

Manufacturing Excellence & Core Values

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Discover and create the new value of herb

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Continuous innovation and improvement

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With the most advanced technology to produce the highest quality products

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Make the employees happy and give back to the community

Our robust manufacturing infrastructure is the backbone of our ability to supply premium food additives globally. We combine massive scale with microscopic precision.

China GMP Certification
The factory has passed the China GMP certification.
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EU-GMP & CEP
The EU-GMP and CEP of Ginkgo Biloba Extract has been certificated.
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Automated Systems
All extraction production lines adopt modern, intelligent and automated control systems.
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Advanced Equipment
Own the most advanced extraction equipment in China.
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Massive Capacity
Annual processing of 30,000tons of Chinese medicine and plant raw materials.
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Six Production Lines
Three annular dynamic countercurrent extraction lines (10 tons & 15 tons); two multi-functional extraction lines (32 extraction tanks with six cubic each) ; one round dynamic countercurrent extraction line (10 tons).
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EU GMP Standards
Own the only acetone process extraction line for Ginkgo Biloba Extract in China that meets the EU GMP standards.
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Fermentation
Own six fermentation tanks (20tons capacity for each)for the production of enzyme-modified products.

Quality Control System

United New Life has established a leading and complete quality control system, and strictly controls the high quality of products in accordance with the quality system. With advanced testing instruments, strict control of product quality, to provide every customer with high quality products.

Detectable items are: Signature component detection (HPLC or UV), solvent residues GC, pesticide residues (organochlorine detection) GC-MS-MS, heavy metals (lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium, copper) ICP-MS microscopic identification, moisture, dry weight loss, ash, microbial limits, thin layer identification, weighing, conductivity, PH, sulfur dioxide residue, routine detection, etc.

Important testing instruments are: Two UHPLC Agilent 1290 ultra-high performance liquid chromatographs, four HPLC Agilent 1260 high performance liquid chromatography sets, There are two HPLC Shimadzu LC-20AT high performance liquid chromatograph, two HPLC Diane CU3000, two Shimadzu evaporative light scattering detector 2000ES, one Shimadzu GC2010 gas chromatograph, and one Shimadzu AA-7000 atomic absorption system.

Quality System & Control Items

Quality Control UniCare’s partners have established complete quality control system.
◎ GMP Approved Factory: All the operations and managements in the facility are following GMP regulations.
◎ Quality Control Items:

Analysis Category
Specific Control Items
Active Ingredient Analysis
Assay, identification
Hazardous Substance Analysis
Heavy metals, pesticide residue, solvent residue
Microbe Analysis
Bacterium, Escherichia coli, Yeast & mould, specific microbial test
Raw Material Control
Pesticide residue, allergy origin, GMO, origin of raw material
Laws & Regulations Confirmation
Investigation and research of laws and regulations of China and other related countries
Stability Test
Guarantee the shelf life according to stability study
Others
pH value, moisture, ash, optical rotation, particle size, density, etc.

◎ The Central Lab is about m2, and qualified by CNAS
◎ Professional analysis and important analytical instruments.

2x UHPLC, Agilent 1290
4x HPLC, Agilent
2x HPLC, Shimadzu LC-20AT
2x ELSD, Shimadzu 2000ES
1x Shimadzu GC-2010
1x Shimadzu AA-700

Research, Development & Sustainable Sourcing

Innovation in Fermentation & Extraction

UniCare invest 10% of our annual net profit in research and development. In addition to optimizing and developing the existing natural plant extraction process, we have also established a professional R&D department for the natural fermentation products. By increasing investment in natural fermentation products, we try to break through the traditional processes and disrupt industry development.

UniCare has deep cooperation with Beijing University of Chemical Technology in the field of fermentation, jointly developing and transforming the new raw materials of pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and natural health products into mass-produced products.

Raw material planting and procurement

In order to control raw materials more efficiently and with higher quality, a raw material procurement system has been established, which extends procurement to every piece of planting land and can trace the raw materials of each batch of products. The storage of raw materials is operated according to the advanced quality management system process, and the content of active ingredients, moisture, ash, heavy metals, pesticide residues and other items of raw materials are strictly controlled.

At the same time, in order to further ensure the high quality of important products, UniCare cooperated with planting farmers to establish ginkgo leaf planting bases, epimedium planting bases, phellodendron planting bases, olive leaf planting bases, etc. Some of these bases are planted strictly in accordance with the GACP management model. In addition, we cooperate with seedling research and development companies to develop high-content seedling cultivation, and cultivate better seedlings through hybridization or gene optimization, so as to continuously reduce unit costs to benefit users.