Milk Thistle Extract

Milk Thistle Extract is a natural active substance extracted from the dried ripe fruits of Silybum marianum (Asteraceae), with Silymarin as its key component and Silibinin as the main active ingredient. It features strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, protects liver cell membranes, and promotes hepatocyte repair and regeneration. As a classic liver-protective ingredient, it is widely used in pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements and functional foods. It also serves as a green and safe animal feed additive to improve liver function, enhance stress resistance and immunity, and boost production performance in livestock, poultry and aquaculture.

Milk thistle extract is widely used in medicine, health products, food and cosmetics, feed additives.

◆ Protecting liver cell membrane and improving the liver function.

◆ Detoxification, reducing the blood fat, benefiting the gallbladder, protecting the brain and removing the free radical of body. As a kind of better antioxidant, it can clear free radical in human body, postpone senility.

◆ Silymarin extract  has the function of radiation hardening, arteriosclerosis preventing, and skin-aging.

◆ Silymarin has functions such as improving animal growth performance, protecting the liver, regulating metabolism, clearing free radicals, and antioxidation.

Applications:

3. It can be applied in anti-aging product for skin care.

4. It can be applied in feed additives.

As a feed additives：

As a green and safe feed additive for aquaculture, Milk Thistle Extract, with its active ingredients Silymarin and Silibinin, can protect the liver and gallbladder health of aquatic animals, enhance antioxidant capacity, stress resistance and immunity, improve digestion and feed utilization, promote growth and increase survival rate. It is widely used in the culture of fish, shrimp, crab and other aquatic species to support green and healthy farming.

A study on adding silymarin to the feed of mandarin fish showed that:

The silymarin inclusion rates for the various experimental treatment groups were 0, 0.5‰, 2‰, and 3.5‰, designated as A0, A0.5, A2, and A3.5, respectively.

❶ Analysis of the growth parameters of farmed mandarin fish (Table 2) revealed that, as the dietary inclusion level of silymarin increased, the weight gain rate, specific growth rate, and condition factor of the fish exhibited a trend of initially decreasing and subsequently increasing; notably, Group A3.5 was significantly higher than Group A0.5.

❷ Following the supplementation of silybin in the feed, the total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC) in the liver of the mandarin fish increased significantly (Fig. 5), reaching its maximum level in group A3.5 (P < 0.05).

Reference: Lu Hongliang, Yang Xincheng, Li Kexin.DIETARY SUPPLEMENTATION OF SILYMARIN ON GROWTH, GLYCOLIPID METABOLISM, AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF MANDARIN FISH (SINIPERCA CHUATSI)[J].

Features：
*  Comply with GMP requirements and provide DMF documents
*  Adequate stock, fast delivery

*  Stable content, low residue

Store in a well-closed container away from moisture and light.