Sea Buckthorn Products:  Manufacture and Composition

Abstract

Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) is a unique plant currently being domesticated. The fruit is the main component of value, although the leaves are occasionally made into sea buckthorn tea. The two main sources of valuable products are derived from the berries, juice from the fleshy tissue and seed as a single seed from each berry. The juice provides a nutritious beverage, high in suspended solids and very high in vitamin C and carotenes. The juice may contain an oil phase trapped within the suspended solids, or the oil may be removed as pulp oil and provided separately. The pulp remaining after juice removal provides for extraction of "sea buckthorn yellow", a pigment that has potential use as a food coloring material. The seed is a source of seed oil, which is very unsaturated and shows promise, because of its light absorption and emollient properties, as an ingredient in cosmetics, phytopharmaceuticals, or UV skin protectant preparations. It may be prepared by conventional extraction techniques or by supercritical carbon dioxide extraction. The manufacture of the main products derived from sea buckthorn is described, including several examples from the patent literature. The available compositional data for the main products are tabulated to form a comprehensive source of information on the manufacture and composition of sea buckthorn products.

Enrichment of edible oil with sea buckthorn by‐products using ultrasound‐assisted extraction

“…Various parts of the SBT plant have been used in traditional medicine and nutrition to reduce the risk of a range of diseases, as a tonic to maintain good health and for cosmetic purposes [4]. Products that are on the market which contain SBT extracts include oil, juice, food additives, candies, jellies, cosmetics, and shampoos.…”

Actinorhizal plants

“…Notably, trees in the Casuarinaceae family have a wide range of applications in agroforestry and land reclamation, including the production of biomass, fuel and timber; interplanting with crop trees; as shelter belts in crop fields; prevention of desertification; coastal dunes stabilisation; and restoration of degraded soils (Diem and Dommergues 1990). Another promising actinorhizal species is Hippophae rhamnoides, which is now being domesticated because its fruits are very nutritious (rich in vitamin C) and their seed oil is highly unsaturated making it suitable for cosmetics and phytopharmaceuticals (Beveridge et al 1999;Li et al 2007). …”

Chemical Composition of Sea Buckthorn Leaves, Branches and Bark

“…Sea buckthorn, and especially its berries, contain have a big variety of health promoting ingredients, e.g., carotinoids, flavonoids, and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and because of these resources sea buckthorn is regarded as an "allrounder". Not only the food industry benefits from the SBT berry (in form of juice, oil or liqueur) also the cosmetic industry (skin cream) and pharmaceutical companies (Beveridge et al, 1999;Eidelant, 2003). Nowadays the sea buckthorn berry is very well known with all its advantages and disadvantages concerning the health benefits and nutrition aspects.…”