【Product Name】: Fenugreek Seed Extract   

【Botanical Name】: Trigonella foenum-graecum L

【Part used】: Seed

【Appearance】: Brownish Yellow or Brownish Gray powder

【Specification】: 4：1  10：1 / Regular Powder / 4-hydroxyisoleucine 5-40% / Fenusides 10-50%

【Storage Period】: 24 Months

【Package】: 1kg/bag 25kg/drum

【Test Method】: HPLC

【Storage Conditions】: Store in cool and dry places. Keep away from strong light and heat.

Description

Fenugreek is an erect, hairy, and annual plant that reaches from 10–50 cm high. It has long and slender stems which bear toothed, tripartite, grey to green obovate leaves. It has fingery structure roots. It possesses white or pale yellow axillary flowers. The pods have a curved beak-like tip that possesses 10–20 seeds.

Flowers are 0.8–1.8 cm long, solitary or in pairs and are sessile. The membranous calyx tube is longer in comparison to lanceolate tips. It has pale yellow corolla that could be darker or violet and measures double in the length of the calyx. Wings measure half as long as standard. Longer than calyx, carina is round and obtuse.

The plant produces a pod as fruit which is about 0.5–1 cm wide, 2.5–10 cm long, and is linear, erect, leaning, and appressed pubescent having a long lip. The pod possesses about 4–20 flattened seeds which are yellow to brown or brown to red, ovate to di-shaped and deep groove.

This plant has a long and vertical taproot. The branched stems are erect or decumbent, round and sturdy. Trifoliate leaves have 0.5–2 cm long petioles. It has obovate to oblong to lanceolate leaflets which measures 1–3 cm long and is rounded to obtusely deltoid. The large and membranous stipules are acute, ovate, and softly pubescent.

Chemical Composition

The seed contains gentianine, papain, choline, trigonelline and other alkaloids, and the sapogenins are mainly diosgenin, yamogenin , a small amount of sapogenin and trace tigogenin.