Chinese name: konjac K. Koch

Main ingredients: Mainly containing polysaccharides, such as grape mannan, mannan, etc. Organic acids, such as citric acid, cinnamic acid, and heneicosene. Glycoside components, such as 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde D-glucoside. In addition, it contains various amino acids, crude protein, and other components.

Main use: Due to the water absorption capacity of konjac glucomannan, which can expand by 80-100 times and has strong adhesion, this advantage has been applied in various fields and industries, such as building materials, packaging materials, filling materials, transportation, chemical leakage prevention, and other fields. It has also been widely used in papermaking, mineral processing, drilling, petrochemical, porcelain, printing and dyeing, and other fields. With the further improvement of technology, the application range will definitely become wider and wider. Overall, there are three aspects: first, the food industry; Secondly, the medical industry; Thirdly, industry.

Firstly, the food industry has a unique taste and flavor. In daily life, it is often made into konjac shreds, konjac meal substitutes, konjac tofu, konjac cakes, konjac noodles, konjac vermicelli, canned konjac, konjac snacks, konjac puffed foods, konjac dishes, weight loss foods, frozen foods, konjac jelly, konjac paste, and various biomimetic foods (such as shrimp, kidney, tendons, sea cucumber, jellyfish skin, etc.), which are known as "magical foods". Food manufacturers must choose raw materials.

Secondly, medical industry: cancer prevention and treatment products, weight loss and bodybuilding products, health products, beauty and skincare products, etc., are used for detoxification and defecation, reducing blood lipids and blood sugar, preserving and preventing bacteria, lowering cholesterol, resolving phlegm and accumulation, detoxifying and dispersing nodules, promoting blood circulation, resolving blood stasis and pain, etc. It has health and medical effects.

Thirdly, industry: Konjac polysaccharides have a wide range of applications in textiles, printing and dyeing, cosmetics, ceramics, fire protection, environmental protection, military industry, oil extraction, and other fields. 1. Konjac glucomannan can be used as an adhesive additive for papermaking, printing adhesives, rubber, ceramics, and photographic films; 2. It can be used as a drilling mud treatment agent and pressure fluid injection agent in the petroleum industry, effectively improving engineering quality and construction progress; 3. In bioengineering, it can be made into gelatin for electrophoretic separation; 4. Used as a sizing agent for wool, linen, and cotton yarns in the textile industry, as well as a printing and dyeing paste for double-sided transparent printing of silk, and as a softening agent for post-processing; Used as a fragrance retention agent in tobacco processing; Used as an additive in skincare creams and shampoo in the cosmetics industry; 5. In wastewater treatment, it can be used as an embedding material for fungicides to slowly release them; 6. It can be used as a dustproof agent in buildings, mixed with alkali and surfactants, and sprayed on the surfaces of buildings and roads to be demolished and repaired, to prevent the generation of dust during construction; 7. After esterification, molding, saponification, and crosslinking in chemical engineering, it can be used as a chromatographic filler for ion exchange chromatography; After chemical modification and activation, it can be used as a carrier for immobilized enzyme or cells. 8. Konjac cotton can be made from konjac as raw material by special process to extract its essence, which can be used for washing and massaging skin.