Product Description

Capsicum Oleoresin is a natural oily extract obtained from chili fruit, with the INCI name Capsicum Oleoresin and CAS number 8023-77-6. It appears as reddish-brown viscous oily liquid with a strong characteristic pungent chili odour. It provides natural spicy heat and chili flavour for food and flavour formulations, acts as a natural colourant to offer reddish-orange colour in finished products, contains capsaicinoids with skin-warming sensation for cosmetic and topical applications, is widely used as an active ingredient in feed additive for livestock and aquaculture, and serves as raw material to prepare capsaicin series derivatives. It is extracted by solvent extraction and refined from ripe chili pods. The main active components are capsaicinoids, which determine the pungency strength. It has good lipophilic property and can be well dissolved in vegetable oils and organic solvents. Strict quality control is implemented to control heavy metal and microbial contamination. It can be further processed into powder form through spray drying with carriers like maltodextrin.

COA

Test Items	Specification	Test Result
Appearance	Reddish-brown viscous oily liquid, with strong characteristic pungent chili odour	Complies
Capsaicinoids	≥ 5.0%	5.21%
Loss on Drying	≤1.0%	0.45%
Ash	≤1.5%	0.82%
Heavy Metals (Pb)	≤10 mg/kg	2.1 mg/kg
Arsenic (As)	≤2 mg/kg	0.3 mg/kg
Total Plate Count	≤1000 CFU/g	120 CFU/g
Yeast & Mould	≤100 CFU/g	<10 CFU/g

Functions and Effects

It delivers natural spicy taste and chili flavour for food products, serves as natural colorant to give reddish-orange hue to end formulations. Containing capsaicinoids, it creates warming sensation when applied on skin for cosmetic use. It works as functional additive in animal feed and can be used as starting material for capsaicin related derivatives. It shows lipophilic feature and easily dissolves in plant oils, and can be converted into free-flowing powder by spray drying with maltodextrin. It adopts solvent extraction from chili fruit and undergoes strict quality control on heavy metals and microorganisms. It has stable flavour and colour performance under proper storage conditions. It can be customized to different capsaicin content to meet varied application demands. It helps enrich sensory experience of seasonings and topical care products. It can be compounded well with other oil-soluble raw materials. It has broad application potential in food, cosmetic and feed industries. It retains the natural active ingredients of chili fruit after refining.

Application Fields

It is widely applied in food seasonings, cosmetics, animal feed and plant protection products, suitable for hot sauce, snack seasoning, warming topical formulations, livestock feed additives and raw material for capsaicin derivatives. It can be added into sauces, condiments and instant food to deliver authentic spicy taste. It is used in warming massage creams and topical care products for skin heating effect. It serves as feed supplement to improve feeding attraction for poultry and aquatic animals. It can be adopted as raw material to synthesize capsaicin related agrochemical products. It is applicable in flavour industry to prepare chili flavour concentrates. It can be processed into powdered spice for food premix applications. It is also used in personal care products with heating function. It can be formulated in plant repellent products for agricultural usage. It fits for production of spicy flavour oil and compound seasonings. It can be used in topical liniment formulations for external use. It supports customized formulations according to different customer requirements.