EXTRACT OBTAINED BY A COMMERCIALLY VIABLE PROCESS FOR THE EXTRACTION OF FUROSTANOLIC SAPONINS FROM FENUGREEK SEEDS, IN WHICH ONE OF THE COMPOUNDS IN THE EXTRACT IS PROTODIOSCIN
Disclosed is an extract obtained by a commercially viable process for the extraction of furostanolic saponins from fenugreek seeds, in which one of the compounds in the extract is protodioscin. The process includes providing plurality of fenugreek seeds and crushing the same by milling and grinding performing a primary extraction on the prepared fenugreek seeds using a first hydrophilic polar solvent which is a lower primary aliphatic alcohol followed by ion-exchange chromatography performing a secondary extraction after ion-exchange chromatography using a composite solvent and decolorizing the final extract by use of activated charcoal concentration of the extract by heating and vacuum drying sieving the final powdered product.
