The extraction dilemma is brutal: heat destroys the fragile nutrients, and the safe solvents are inefficient. Dr. Kim's answer is a low-temperature vacuum process. The biomass is placed under vacuum, which expands the cells by about 1.5 times, then extracted at low temperature (roughly 10 to 40 degrees Celsius) under vacuum.
Because there is no high heat and no harsh chemistry, the delicate phytol tail and the active ingredients survive intact. This is the step that separates a real, functional chlorophyll-a from the stripped synthetic chlorophyllin most of the industry ends up with.
~1.5×
Cell expansion
~10–40°C
Temperature
phytol tail + actives
Preserves
Key takeaways
- →Heat and harsh solvents destroy chlorophyll; this avoids both.
- →Vacuum expands the cells, then low-temp extraction pulls the compound out intact.
- →It keeps the phytol tail, the difference between real and synthetic.
Educational material, framed as general science. It describes how the platform and its compounds work; it is not medical advice and makes no disease-treatment claims.