Patent ID: 7632526
Filing Date: 2009-12-15
Classification: A61K,A61P

Abstract:
1. A powdered health supplement having flavonoids absorbed onto the external surfaces of said powder and which is suitable for lowering plasma glucose and plasma triglyceride, and which is produced by a method comprising the following steps: a. using a mixture of grape skin, grape seeds, grape stems, wherein the mixture is rinsed, dried and then ground into a powder after residual fruit fleshes and foreign substances have already been removed from the mixture; b. adding 1 ml of 99.8% ethanol to every 1 g of the powder, and then the powder and ethanol are mixed together and stirred for 1 hour to release lipid-soluble flavonoids from cells in the powder; and c. allowing ethanol in the mixture resulting from the stirring in step (b) to completely evaporate, so that the flavonoids that have been released into the ethanol solution are adsorbed onto the external surfaces of the powder, thereby resulting in said powdered health supplement.