How supplements are made

Question

So I’ve been curious as to how medicines have been made, from how extracts of plants/vitamins are made, to the precise components that are fused together to make the supplements that we see in vitamin stores today.

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

I work with some biochemical extracts, and the way they get it out of the source plant is usually by adding a specific solvent, like alcohol, or water, or whatever works, at certain temperature and pH, the purify the extract.