Extraction of Curcumin

Abstract

Curcumin due to its various medicinal, biological, pharmacological activities is high on demand and has high market potential, high cost. Since curcumin has variety of uses, extracting it in a less expensive method other Super Critical Fluid Extraction is the main aim or objective of this work. Usage of food grade solvents is a main prerequisite of this work and optimization of the parameters in order to find an effective means of extraction sum ups the cause of this project work. Besides working on the extraction of curcumin, other properties such as curcumin’s antioxidant, antimicrobial properties are to be envisaged upon. This project work mainly deals with the topic on ‘extraction of curcumin’ from its common source turmeric, using an effective low cost method of solvent extraction. Different solvents are used either in their pure form or being mixed in definite ratio’s, while taking into consideration of other parameters such as particle size, time, temperature, solid: solvent ratio. The qualitative analysis of its antimicrobial property is also done along with the product development of Cake.