Database/Antioxidant/Puerarin
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Puerarin natural?

Yes. Puerarin is overwhelmingly produced by large-scale extraction and purification from kudzu root, an established commercial industry.

INCI namePuerarin
CAS3681-99-0
FormulaC21H20O9 · 416.4 Da
FunctionAntioxidant
FeedstockExtracted and purified from kudzu root (Pueraria lobata),…

How we scored it

C21H20O9 isoflavone glycoside; treated as an isolated extraction product, not a fragment split.
What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.

Where it comes from

Extracted and purified from kudzu root (Pueraria lobata), a major traditional-medicine crop grown at scale for this purpose. No significant synthetic route is used commercially.

In plain English

An antioxidant compound extracted and purified from kudzu root, a plant long used in traditional medicine. It comes from the root itself, not from synthetic chemistry.

Structure

2D structure of Puerarin

7-hydroxy-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-8-[(2S,3R,4R,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]chromen-4-one

PubChem CID 5281807 ↗

References

  1. 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
  2. 2Puerarin. PubChem CID 5281807. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
  3. 3PUERARIN. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  4. 4PUERARIN. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=PUERARIN