Drinks using extracts of medicinal plant raw materials

Abstract

In connection with the deterioration of the health of the population of Ukraine, the primary task should be to enrich the usual diet with products of functional purpose and to add natural biologically active additives that contribute to the removal of radionuclides, toxins, normalization of the body's systems and increased immunity. Therefore, this work is devoted to the study of the process of extracting biologically active substances from medicinal plant raw materials (plantain and hypericum) with the aim of obtaining extracts, based on which new functional drinks have been developed. The refractometric method was used to determine the content of soluble solids. The content of trace elements was determined using the atomic adsorption method. It was established that for a significant increase in the transition of biologically active substances to the extract, a rather long time is necessary, and the duration of the infusion that we took is insufficient to extract a large number of valuable components from medicinal plant raw materials. Therefore, the best parameters of the process of extracting valuable components from plantain and and hypericum were studied. For plantain, the obtained parameters should correspond to hydromodule 3, temperature 60º C and extraction duration 35 min., for hypericum - hydromodule 3, process temperature 70º C, extraction duration 35 min. The content of soluble solids and the quantitative composition of such trace elements as copper, iron, manganese and zinc were determined in the obtained extracts at different extraction temperatures. Based on the obtained results, new drinks were developed using the traditional Ukrainian raw materials of apples, carrots and table beets and the ratio of the components included in the "Inspiration" and "Inspiration plus" drinks. The practical value of the work lies in the development of drinks that have health and preventive properties and therefore can be used for consumption by people of different age categories to replenish the body with biologically active substances. The use of fructose syrup instead of sugar syrup allows people with diabetes to consume such drinks.