Herbridge,31 August 2010_TomatoRed Biotech was established in 2003 in Xinjiang province,China.It has become the leading firm in the natural lycopene industry.TomatoRed Biotech's mission is to provide natural raw materials and additives to the functional food and pharmaceutical industries on the basis of local natural resources.

    According to herbridge.com,National Standards on Natural Lycopene-Food Safe National Standards-Lycopene is expected to be published in 2011.TomatoRed Biotech is one of the designers.

    TomatoRed Biotech is the first company to adopt supercritical Co2 fluid extraction technology to produce lycopene in the world,making it possible to remove residual solvent inevitably occurs in solvent extraction process.The company supplies lycopene oleoresin,water-soluble lycopene and encapsulated powder and also sell lycopene based health product--TomatoRed Lycopene soft capsule."Our TomatoRed lycopene are the best products with excellent bioavailability and powerful function" stated,Wei Jianhua,President of TomatoRed Biotech.

    Which is said to be primarily supported by strong R&D teams.A bunch of senior carotenoid experts led by TomatoRed Biotech sucessfully introduced Co2 fluid extraction technology in the production of natural lycopene in 2003.TomatoRed Biotech received patent approval from State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China(SIPO) in 2004 including "Tomato Peel Tissue Treating Methods","Tomato Skin Dried Powder Preparation Methods","Supercritical CO2 Extraction Technology of Lycopene from Tomoto Dried Skin" .Recently,TomatoRed Biotech made great progress in water solubility and encapsulation technology.

    Additionally,TomatoRed Biotech enjoys exceptional advantages of natural resources.Tomatoes have a favorable condition in Yanqi Basin, Xinjiang with abundant light and heat resources,plenty of sunshine as well as great difference in temperature during day and night.The weather is very drought and short of rainfall.The lycopene content of tomatoes is higher than that in other places.Moreover,Xinjiang produces large quantities of ketchup each year.

    Wei said,"TomatoRed lycopene is gradually accepted by customers from US and Japan,but we still have a long way to go to catch up with and surpass Lycored."She is confident of the future,"The market is very optimistic."

    Scientific researches on lycopene go ahead like wildfire worldwide.A great deal of researches demonstrated that lycopene has great potential in scavenging free radical and combating degenerative diseases."Lycopene is only used in health food fields now,but it has immense potential in the fields of pharmaceuticals."said wei.

    As for fermented and synthetic lycopene,Wei said,"They can't compare to natural lycopene.Their components are of great differences."

    Based on proprietary technology platform used to discover lycopene,TomatoRed Biotech has developed food-grade lutein,Cistanche salsa and sage leaf P.E.

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