This invention discloses a method for preparing
Rehmannia glutinosa pulp with high retention of all its components after nine
steaming and nine sun-
drying processes, belonging to the technical field of
deep processing of
traditional Chinese medicine and preparation of functional foods. Using
Rehmannia glutinosa processed through nine
steaming and nine sun-
drying processes from authentic Huai
Rehmannia glutinosa as
raw material, this method addresses industry pain points such as the inability to dry-crush candied
Rehmannia glutinosa, low efficiency of traditional
extraction methods, easy loss of heat-sensitive active ingredients, and difficulty in retaining all components. It adopts wet pulping instead of dry crushing and pioneers a three-stage progressive
cell-wall breaking process of "
enzymatic hydrolysis →
ultrasound →
microwave," achieving a synergistic effect of gentle
biological cell-wall breaking, physically enhanced crushing, and low-temperature solubilization. Combined with vacuum low-temperature extraction, post-
fermentation with probiotics, and low-temperature concentration, the entire process avoids membrane separation,
protein removal, and purification of individual components. The finished product achieves a
polysaccharide extraction rate of 90%–96%, a total
retention rate of ≥65% for
catalpol and
rehmannia glycoside D, an increase of over 30% in
melanoidin content, a decrease of over 25% in 5-HMF content, and an increase of over 13% in
in vitro antioxidant activity. The process is gentle and controllable, suitable for large-scale industrial production.