Ziziphus jujuba Fruit Identity & Plant Part
The botanical entity is Ziziphus jujuba Mill., a thorny deciduous tree of the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae. The part used is the ripe fruit, the red date, which is dried before extraction. The stone and its kernel, along with leaves and bark, are not added to this jujube fruit extract.
Jujube fruit and jujube seed are traded as unrelated raw materials. The seed, usually from the sour jujube form, is used for different products and has its own extracts on this site. The dried fruit is high in sugars, mainly fructose, glucose and sucrose, and also carries organic acids, triterpenoid acids, polysaccharides and phenolic compounds. After water extraction, the sugars and polysaccharides dominate the powder.












