What is chromium picolinate?

Chromium picolinate, also known as chromium picolinate and chromium methyl picolinate, and its CAS number is 14639-25-9. It is a purple-red to red crystalline fine powder with luster. It is chemically stable at room temperature, slightly soluble in water, and insoluble in ethanol. The chromium in chromium picolinate is trivalent, and the entire molecular structure is electrically neutral, has hydrophobic properties, and can be absorbed across the membrane with a complete structure. As a new type of chromium agent, chromium picolinate has been widely used in the fields of medicine, health products and feed additives due to its unique chemical properties and physiological activity.

What are the functions of chromium picolinate?

1. Lowering blood sugar: Chromium picolinate can enhance the activity of insulin and improve sugar metabolism, thereby achieving the effect of lowering blood sugar. For diabetic patients, it can assist in the treatment of the disease to a certain extent, but it must be used according to the doctor's advice.
2. Lowering blood lipids: By promoting fat metabolism, chromium picolinate can also play a certain lipid-lowering effect, help lower blood cholesterol levels, and maintain cardiovascular health.
3. Strengthening physical fitness: It can promote muscle protein synthesis, help muscle repair and growth, thereby achieving the effect of strengthening muscles and strengthening the body.
4. Improving immunity: Chromium picolinate can enhance the regulatory effect of immune function, improve the body's immunity and resistance, and help people better resist diseases.
5. Weight loss: It is a weight loss extract. Because it can promote the metabolism of sugar and fat at the same time, it is not easy to cause the accumulation of the two, so it also has a weight loss effect.

What are the applications?

1. Pharmaceutical and health care products field: As pharmaceutical raw materials， and a kind of health care material, chromium picolinate is widely used in the research and development of products for lowering blood sugar, lowering lipids, losing weight, increasing physical strength, and improving immunity. These products help people better manage blood sugar and blood lipid levels and improve their health.
2. Feed additive field: In the animal husbandry industry, chromium picolinate is used as a feed additive, which can significantly increase the output rate of livestock and poultry meat, eggs, milk and cubs and the survival rate of cubs, promote the rapid growth of livestock and poultry, and increase the rate of feed return.
3. Food Additives: As a trace element supplement, chromium picolinate is also used as a food additive.