Zouping Xiwang Bio-engineering Co., Ltd

Application of Inositol

1. Pharmaceutical industry: Inositol belongs to Vitamin B family. It is widely used as material for producing compound vitamins pills and can treat many diseases such as constipation, balding, high cholesterol, liver fat, diabetic neuropathy (along with choline), and hypoglycemia. It’s also could be used as pharmaceutical intermediates to compose nicotinic acid.

2. Food processing: As food additive, function drink (such as Red Bull), healthy foods and infant powder contain inositol. It is the biology accelerant in the food industry. The daily imbibe quantity for human body is about 250—500mg.

3. Feed industry: Inositol is widely used in aquatic feed industry. It’s a high-grade nutrition tonic, great bio-chemical raw material and medicine for fish and shrimps. Inositol could promote the growth of them, making the growing pace faster. In the shrimp and fish feed, inositol’s content usually is 300-500 mg/kg. Switzerland's Roche Group suggested the amount for salmon fish is 1000 mg/kg, eels and carp 150 mg/kg. It usually presents 0.2% - 0.5% in feed.