Unlocking metabolic health potentials through clinical-grade active compounds for pharmaceuticals, functional foods, and nutritional applications.
The global demand for standardized Bitter Gourd Extract (Momordica charantia) has grown rapidly due to rising awareness of metabolic health, blood sugar regulation, and natural plant-based therapies. Nutraceutical formulators, pharmaceutical developers, and food manufacturing enterprises are increasingly incorporating bitter gourd derivatives into their product lines to meet the consumer demand for clean-label, plant-derived bioactive agents.
Historically utilized in traditional medicine across Asia, contemporary research has isolated and validated key biological molecules inside bitter gourd. These include Charantin (a steroidal saponin mix), Polypeptide-p (an insulin-like structure), and various ribosome-inactivating proteins. These components work synergistically to support cellular glucose uptake, optimize insulin sensitivity, and assist in maintaining healthy glycemic indexes.
As a leading supplier and exporter, UniCare bridges the gap between agricultural raw materials and precision-manufactured active ingredients. We employ advanced extraction technologies to ensure every batch conforms to international pharmaceutical and food-grade parameters, helping global buyers achieve regulatory compliance and formulation stability.
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.
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.
Advancing botanical science through structured manufacturing paradigms and ecological responsibility.
Discover and create the new value of herbs to deliver scientifically backed compounds directly to global businesses.
Continuous innovation and improvement across extraction phases, yield ratios, and molecular isolation technologies.
Employing the most advanced extraction technologies to ensure purity, concentration potency, and strict stability profiles.
Ensuring happy employees and actively giving back to agrarian communities through sustainable agricultural practices.
Why leading global corporations source plant extracts from UniCare's unified manufacturing infrastructure.
Our extraction facilities process up to 30,000 tons of botanical raw materials annually. This scale guarantees that whether our partners require sample batches or hundred-ton contract orders, the pricing remains optimized through scale economies.
By using modern, intelligent, and automatic control networks, human error is completely eliminated from the temperature control, separation, concentration, and drying phases. This ensures perfect molecular integrity for fragile elements like Polypeptide-p.
Through our dedicated seedling development programs, optimized hybridization, and agricultural support networks in China, the base raw material yields are significantly higher in active components, driving down unit cost structure.
UniCare attaches great importance to the hardware conditions of production equipment and has the largest and most advanced extraction factory in China. The entire production line in UniCare is controlled by a modern, intelligent, automatic control system.
Until now, UniCare has built up two GMP workshops, containing six multi-functional extraction lines, among which there is the only production line for Ginkgo Biloba Extract of acetone process in the whole China. Here are several other production lines including fermentation production lines and Chinese medicine pieces. A total of 30,000 tons of various Chinese medicine plant raw materials can be processed each year.
Diverse product formats utilizing Momordica charantia across major wellness sectors.
Standardized to 10% Charantin or customized peptide concentrations, Bitter Gourd is formulated into oral tablets and gelatin capsules. These are targeted directly at aiding cellular insulin receptors and lowering HbA1c values.
Highly water-soluble bitter melon powder formulations are integrated into herbal teas, healthy ready-to-drink options, and dry drink mixes, offering clean blood sugar management properties without visual sedimentation.
Leveraging its rich antioxidant, zinc, and vitamin concentrations, the extract is formulated into acne-treatment creams, soothing facial washes, and anti-aging lotions to decrease oxidative damage.
Annual Plant Raw Materials Capacity
Active Extraction Lines
Annual Net Profit Reinvested in R&D
Certified Central Lab Standard
Exemplifying global regulatory criteria through state-of-the-art laboratory confirmation.
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 include: 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: Two UHPLC Agilent 1290 ultra-high performance liquid chromatographs, four HPLC Agilent 1260 high performance liquid chromatography sets, two HPLC Shimadzu LC-20AT high performance liquid chromatographs, two HPLC Dionex UltiMate 3000, two Shimadzu evaporative light scattering detectors (ELSD) 2000ES, one Shimadzu GC-2010 gas chromatograph, and one Shimadzu AA-7000 atomic absorption system.
| Quality Control Items | Detailed Testing Metrics & Parameters |
|---|---|
| Active Ingredient Analysis | Assay, HPLC/UV identification, chromatographic fingerprint validation |
| Hazardous Substance Analysis | Heavy metals (ICP-MS), pesticide residue screen (GC-MS-MS), residual solvents (GC) |
| Microbe Analysis | Total Plate Count, E. Coli, Salmonella, Yeast & Mould, specific pathogen testing |
| Raw Material Control | Pesticide check at field level, non-GMO confirmation, allergen origins, geographical traceability |
| Laws & Regulations Confirmation | Regular review of pharmacopoeia requirements (USP, EP, ChP) for global exports |
| Stability Test | Accelerated and long-term shelf stability analysis for active ingredient maintenance |
| Others | pH value, moisture, ash, optical rotation, bulk density, particle size mesh distribution |
| Core Laboratory Instruments Inventory | ||
|---|---|---|
| UHPLC, Agilent 1290 (×2) | HPLC, Agilent (×4) | HPLC, Shimadzu LC-20AT (×2) |
| ELSD, Shimadzu 2000ES (×2) | Shimadzu GC-2010 (×1) | Shimadzu AA-700 (×1) |
Ensuring vertical tracebility from seed cultivation to finished botanical powders.
UniCare invests 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.
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.
Resolving issues with purity, stability, and international supply chain constraints.
Challenge: Natural variations in raw bitter melon crops lead to fluctuating levels of Charantin and Polypeptide-p between product lots.
Solution: We apply standardized industrial homogenization protocols and HPLC/UV controls to deliver consistent bio-potency profiles in every batch.
Challenge: Bitter gourd crops are highly susceptible to agricultural contaminants and soil-borne heavy metals.
Solution: Strict raw ingredient vetting at GACP bases combined with multi-step filtration and ICP-MS testing before cargo release.
Challenge: Hygroscopic herbal powders degrade quickly, leading to clumping and molecular degradation during transport.
Solution: Double-bag food-grade vacuum packing wrapped in moisture-resistant barrier foils, validated by accelerated stability testing.
Direct technical responses to key manufacturing, sourcing, and botanical specifications.
We supply standardized Bitter Gourd Extract typically containing 10% Charantin by HPLC/UV, as well as customized options focusing on water-soluble Polypeptide-p concentrations based on our customer's formulation needs.
All batches undergo testing with our Agilent ICP-MS instruments. We guarantee lead < 3.0 ppm, arsenic < 2.0 ppm, cadmium < 1.0 ppm, and mercury < 0.1 ppm, fully complying with both FDA limits and EU regulations for food supplements.
Our standard manufacturing MOQ is 25 kg (packaged in typical fiber drums). However, initial trial samples of 1kg to 5kg can be arranged for laboratory analysis and formulation tests.
Our raw material procurement system links every batch of finished extract powder back to the exact cultivation farm. We monitor pesticide usage, water quality, and harvesting dates to maintain a fully traceable supply chain.
Yes, utilizing our advanced multi-functional extraction and blending systems, we can create custom dry blends with Berberine, Milk Thistle, Olive Leaf, or other active herbal ingredients as specified by your R&D team.
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