sambucus black elderberry extract

Hunan Huacheng supplies Sambucus black elderberry extract in bulk, built around a chain that starts with frozen berries and ends with a fine powder in sealed aluminium bags. The plant we operate in Changsha uses water-ethanol extraction at controlled temperatures, then passes the liquor through a series of ultrafiltration and nanofiltration steps. That process concentrates anthocyanins while stripping out sugars and pectin, which would otherwise make the powder sticky and hard to handle. Standard specs include anthocyanin content by UV-VIS, loss on drying below 5%, and particle size 80 mesh. We can push anthocyanins to 25% or pull them back to 5% depending on your label claim and cost target. For gummies, we often suggest a lower strength with a maltodextrin carrier because it disperses cleanly in syrup. For capsules, a 10% powder mixed with silica flows well through most filling machines. The extract is not just a commodity here; we run HACCP and BRC audits regularly, with documentation ready for FDA submissions. That matters when you sell into markets where a missing chain-of-custody record stalls a shipment. On the technical side, we monitor pH during extraction to minimize degradation of cyanidin-3-glucoside. The powder shelves at room temperature for 24 months if kept dry, based on forced degradation studies we do internally. Because we handle monk fruit extract as our flagship, the same QA system covers elderberry batches, so residual solvent and microbial limits mirror a sweetener-grade facility, not a loosely run herb shop. Bulk pricing scales with order volume, and we pool shipments from multiple customers to fill a container, which helps smaller brands access consistent material without paying for air freight. If your R&D team wants a sample with a specific anthocyanin profile or a custom granulation, we send a 100-gram sachet along with the COA within a week.