Premium Echinacea Purpurea Root Powder – Your Trusted Botanical Immunity Booster

Shaanxi Hongda Phytochemistry is a major manufacturer and supplier of high quality Echinacea Purpurea Root Powder, offering the best value to health brands and formulators worldwide. We have over 20 years of experience since 2001 manufacturing high-potency root powders that answer very real industry difficulties you confront every day. We utilise modern HPLC testing to confirm species validity, guaranteeing your product contains true root material rich in alkylamides and cichoric acid, not the less effective and cheaper aerial sections. We oversee cultivation from our certified planting bases to eliminate your supply chain risks and to provide batch-to-batch uniformity that maintains your brand name. Our plant features 100,000-level purification workshops and an R&D staff headed by a professor, and we produce bioactive-stable powders that retain effectiveness over the whole shelf life, so your clients may expect the immune support outcomes they expect.

Echinacea Purpurea Extract Supplier

Our Echinacea Extract Powder is taken from chosen underground root systems of Echinacea purpurea plants raised in our controlled planting bases. The botanical constituent is rich in alkylamides and cichoric acid, which possess strong immune-modulating activities. We employ state-of-the-art spray drying technology to protect fragile bioactives that are readily degraded during traditional processing. Echinacea powder has a typical brown-yellow colour and fine particle uniformity, ensuring excellent flowability for your production processes. Whether you’re making capsules, tablets or functional beverages, this premium root powder delivers the therapeutically relevant phytochemical profile your formulations need for excellent immune system support.

Echinacea Purpurea Powder

Third Test Report

Microbiological Safety: Our goods are tested by third party testing laboratories including SGS and Eurofins. Total Plate Count is below 1,000 CFU/g and Yeast & Mould is below 100 CFU/g, suitable for use in dietary supplement applications.

Pesticide Residue Analysis: Multi-residue screening for compliance with regulatory standards (EC) No 396/2005 and USP <561> with 400+ pesticide chemicals analysed to undetectable levels.

Heavy Metal Test: Lead (Pb) <0.5 ppm, Arsenic (As) <0.5 ppm, Cadmium (Cd) <0.3 ppm, Mercury (Hg) <0.1 ppm, Below California Prop 65 and FDA Daily Consumption Guidelines.

Authenticity Confirmation: Species-specific molecular testing confirms that the Echinacea purpurea root material is authentic, and the absence of Echinacoside confirms that there is no adulteration with the species E. angustifolia or E. pallida.

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Echinacea Purpurea Extract Specification

Items	Standards	Results
Physical Analysis
Appearance	Fine Powder	Conforms
Color	Brown Powder	Conforms
Odor	Characteristic	Conforms
Mesh Size	100% through 80% mesh size	Conforms
General Analysis
Identification	Identical to R.S. sample	Conforms
Aescin	≥4%	4.41%
Extract Solvents	Water and Ethanol	Conforms
Loss on Drying (g/100g)	≤5.0	3.24%
Ash(g/100g)	≤5.0	2.05%
Chemical Analysis
Pesticides Residue (mg/kg)	0.05	Conforms
Residual Solvent	<0.05%	Conforms
Residual Radiation	Negative	Conforms
Lead(Pb) (mg/kg)	<3.0	Conforms
Arsenic(As) (mg/kg)	<2.0	Conforms
Cadmium(Cd) (mg/kg)	<1.0	Conforms
Mercury(Hg) (mg/kg)	<0.1	Conforms
Microbiological Analysis
Total Plate Count(cfu/g)	≤1,000	300
Molds and Yeast (cfu/g)	≤100	29
Coliforms (cfu/g)	Negative	Conforms
Salmonella(/25g)	Negative	Conforms

Please contact us to get COA and more information: duke@hongdaherb.com

Echinacea Purpurea Root Powder Advantages

Superior Bioactive Stability: Our innovative low temperature spray-drying technique protects heat sensitive alkylamides from degradation, offering you powders with 18 month shelf stability under optimum storage circumstances – eliminating your inventory management issues.

100% Root Material Guaranteed: Using DNA barcoding and HPLC fingerprinting we guarantee 100% root material, avoiding the industry-wide problem of adulteration with aerial parts which decreases the immune-supporting efficacy of your product.

High Alkylamide Content: Our root powder naturally includes 0.5-1.2% total alkylamides, providing the characteristic tongue-tingling feeling people recognise as a quality indicator, thereby improving your brand reputation.

Excellent Compressibility: Our powder has 95% particle consistency through 80 mesh which allows for consistent flow through encapsulation and tableting equipment. This means less downtime and waste rates in your manufacturing.

Echinacea Purpurea Root Powder Application

immunological Defence Supplements: Formulate high-potency capsules and tablets for acute immunological support, where fast macrophage activation supports your customers at the first sign of seasonal problems – your customers’ most requested application.

Functional Beverage Systems: Incorporate water-soluble extracts in effervescent tablets, wellness shots, and immunity beverages, offering practical daily-use formats that resonate with today’s health-conscious customers seeking preventative treatment.

Professional Healthcare Formulas: Design practitioner-grade tinctures and liquid extracts that combine Echinacea Purpurea Root Powder with synergistic botanicals such as Astragalus or Elderberry to create immunological protocols for integrative health markets.

Animal Nutrition Products: Used in poultry and cattle feed as natural antibiotic alternatives to increase herd immunity and meet consumer demand for antibiotic-free animal protein production.

Production Process

Step 1 – Raw Material Selection + Quality Verification: We gather 3-year matured Echinacea purpurea roots from our certified organic planting bases during ideal alkaloid concentration periods, resulting in roots with optimum cichoric acid levels proven through preliminary field testing.

Step 2 – Cleaning and Preparation + Contaminant Removal: Roots are washed through multi-stage washing systems to remove soil and debris. This is followed by metal detection scanning to provide sanitised material ready for size reduction without foreign matter contamination.

Step 3 – Controlled Drying + Bioactive Preservation: Washed roots are loaded into low temperature vacuum dryers around 50°C, yielding dried material with more than 95% of the original alkylamide content against conventional high heat procedures.

Step 4 – Precision Grinding + Particle Optimisation: Dried roots are cryogenic milled using technologies that prevent heat build-up during pulverisation, resulting in a uniformly sized 80-mesh powder with the phytochemical structures intact for extraction or direct usage.

Step 5 – Quality Assurance + Standardisation and Testing: The final powder is analysed for standardisation of the cichoric acid by HPLC and a complete microbiological screening is done. Certified batches with full traceability documentation are obtained and are compliant with international regulatory requirements.

Production process

OEM/ODM Support

Custom Formulation Development: Our 20+ professor-level R&D team works with you to develop exclusive immunity compositions using Echinacea root powder with complementing substances like Vitamin C, Zinc or Elderberry that are market ready in 45-60 days.

Flexible Format Options: We produce your custom specs in a range of delivery methods including hard capsules, soft gels, tablets, stick packs and premixed powders facilitating your product concept to move effortlessly from development to market launch.

Private Label Packaging: Choose from our extensive packaging solutions including bottles, blister packs, and sachets with your branding, while we handle label design compliance with FDA, EU, and Health Canada regulations specific to your target markets.

Flexible Manufacturing Capabilities: We manufacture at a rate of 3,000 tonnes annually and can accept a range of orders from 100kg trial batches to multi-ton production runs, providing you with growth flexibility without the need for new supplier qualification as your brand develops.

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Why Choose Us?

You need a partner who knows the quality of your ingredients affects your brand’s reputation. Shaanxi Hongda makes this promise because we control every step from agriculture to final packaging through our vertically integrated operations. Our 20,000 square metre facility includes both production and SGS-standardized laboratory, reducing delays from external quality control that impede your time-to-market. We have six specialised warehouse zones, which allows us to keep different inventory and ensure shipping within 3-7 working days, no matter the season.

Equipment

We are already cGMP, FSSC22000, HALAL, KOSHER and ORGANIC (EU/NOP) certified to provide the compliance groundwork for your global market expansion. We have a one-to-one customer support methodology, so you work directly with technical experts that understand your formulation difficulties, not sales people reading from a script. Choose us and you obtain a production partner invested in your product’s success.

Certifications

FAQ

Q: How does your root powder differ from aerial part powders?

A: Our root powder is rich in alkylamides (0.5-1.2%) that stimulate immunological response, whilst aerial portions are largely polyphenols with various methods. Roots offers the powerful immunological support your clients want.

Q: Do you have organic certified material?

A: Yes, we have ORGANIC (EU) and NOP Certifications. Our organic planting base is limited to annual quantities – reach out to us early in your planning cycle to reserve certified organic lots.

Q: What is your minimum order quantity?

A: New customers are welcome to try trial purchases of 25kg (one drum) to test the quality. We offer preferential prices on orders over 500kg appropriate for commercial production launches.

Q: How do you ensure consistent cichoric acid levels between batches?

A: We standardise by blending multiple harvest batches and confirm the results with HPLC testing. Each production lot is individually COA certified for conformance to specifications prior to distribution.

Q: Do you offer samples for testing?

A: Sure. We deliver 100g samples in aluminium foil for your quality assessment and formulation experiments. Contact our team to request samples with appropriate COA paperwork.