What is flax lignans?

Flax lignan, a natural active ingredient extracted from flax seeds, is also known as secoisolariciresiol diglucoside. Its unique chemical structure gives it rich biological activities and has become a hot research object in the field of health in recent years. Our flax lignans usually exist in the form of light yellow or light brown powder with a unique plant aroma and are easily soluble in solvents such as water and ethanol. Our flax lignans are obtained from pure green natural flax seeds. As a natural active ingredient, it has a variety of significant health effects and wide application prospects. It can not only provide consumers with comprehensive health protection but can also be used as pharmaceutical raw materials and cosmetics materials.

What are the benefits of flaxseed lignans?

1. Prevention of estrogen-dependent diseases: flaxseed lignans have a preventive effect on estrogen-dependent diseases such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, menstrual syndrome, and osteoporosis.
2. Anti-oxidant raw material: It has beneficial effects on diabetes, gastrointestinal tumors, coronary heart disease, kidney disease, and antioxidant properties.
3. Anti-cancer potential: lignans have good anti-cancer potential because they have anti-proliferative, antioxidant, anti-estrogen and anti-vascular effects, and can inhibit various types of cancer cells such as breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, and cervical cancer.
4. Prevention of diabetes: Eating flaxseeds can prevent diabetes by lowering glucose and blood lipid concentrations, delaying postprandial glucose absorption, and reducing inflammation and oxidative stress.

How to use flax lignans?

1. Food additives: flax lignans can be widely used as additives for capsules, tablets, breakfast cereals and fast food. There are also a variety of products such as nutritious functional super concentrated emulsions and whole milk beverages containing ω-3 fatty acids, soluble dietary fiber and lignans that continue to appear on the market.
2. Pharmaceutical raw materials: Due to the antiviral activity, anti-mitotic activity and antifungal activity of lignans with strong antioxidant properties, they have preventive or inhibitory effects on reducing hormone-dependent cancers, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.
3. Cosmetics materials: lignans as a medium or anti-aging active agent in cosmetics have broad application prospects in preventing or treating skin aging, especially skin sagging, lack of elasticity, reducing wrinkle formation, making the skin more elastic, preventing or treating dry skin, keeping the skin moisturized, and improving the appearance of the skin.