Amorepacific Vitalbeauty Receives MetaGreen Green Technology Product Certification

[Asia Economy Reporter Yujin Cho] Amorepacific's inner beauty brand Vitalbeauty announced on the 14th that its Metagreen product has received the 'Green Technology Product Certification' from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. This is the first time a health functional food brand has obtained the Green Technology Product Certification in Korea.

Although green tea extract is used as a functional ingredient for reducing body fat, antioxidant effects, and improving blood cholesterol, most of the green tea byproducts left after extracting active ingredients such as catechins, which are mainly used in health functional foods, were discarded by landfill or incineration.

Amorepacific Technical Research Institute focused on the fact that new useful components could be extracted from green tea byproducts generated during the catechin extraction process. They developed a technology to extract 'green tea polysaccharides' from green tea byproducts and produce 'green tea dietary fiber' from the byproducts after the first extraction.

This technology reduced waste generated in the manufacturing process of health functional foods using existing green tea extracts by more than 90%, and minimized environmental harmful effects through an efficient low-energy process.

Yurang-guk, Team Leader of the Vitalbeauty Metagreen Brand Marketing Team, said, "This certification achievement is the result of continuous research and development on the efficacy of green tea to convey the philosophy of the Vitalbeauty brand and Amorepacific, which pursue healthy beauty, to customers." He added, "We plan to continue discovering sustainable health functional food materials through eco-friendly technology development and expand the application range of our products."

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