Glutathione is a tripeptide containing the gamma-amide bond and the sulfhydryl group. It is composed of amino acid like glutamate, cysteine and glycine and is found in almost every cell of the body. Glutathione helps maintain normal immune system function and has antioxidant, integrative and detoxification effects. Sulfhydryl group for cysteine’s active group (often abbreviated as G-SH), easy to combine with some drugs, toxins, so that it has an integrated detoxification effect. Glutathione can not only be used as Health Ingredients product, but also as the base material of functional food,be widely used in the anti-aging, enhance immunity, anti-tumor and other functional food.
Glutathione comes in two forms, reduced (G-SH) and oxidized (G-S-S-G). Glutathione is basically reduced under physiological conditions. Glutathione reductase catalyzes the conversion of the two types, and its coenzyme provides NADPH for the by-pass metabolism of pentose phosphate.…