Specialty Botanical Ingredients
Standardized extracts and purified botanical actives for commercial formulation.
Quality Botanical Imports supplies specialty botanical ingredients for brands, formulators, manufacturers, and R&D teams developing next-generation products in functional relaxation, mood support, alcohol alternatives, cannabis alternatives, and related wellness categories.
Our catalog focuses on standardized botanical extracts and purified botanical actives where identity, potency, documentation, and supplier qualification matter. Availability varies by lot, specification, and testing status.
What QBI Supplies
QBI focuses on hard-to-source botanical ingredients with defined marker compounds, standardized alkaloid or active profiles, or purified constituent specifications. Our catalog includes ingredients used in beverage, gummy, capsule, powder, and prototype formulation work.
How We Qualify Materials
Supplier-provided documentation is only the starting point. QBI evaluates materials through supplier qualification, batch-specific documentation review, and independent analytical testing where appropriate. Testing needs vary by ingredient, specification, and intended commercial use.
Ingredient Families
Current and developing QBI product families include lotus-derived nuciferine ingredients, mesembrine-focused kanna materials, magnolia bark ingredients, and custom sourcing for qualified buyers.
Nuciferine / Lotus Extract
Lotus-derived botanical materials and nuciferine-focused ingredients for commercial formulation. QBI prioritizes identity, potency, and documentation because ordinary lotus and blue lotus materials can vary widely in composition and standardization.
Specifications:
Nuciferine-focused extracts and high-purity nuciferine options, subject to lot qualification.
Primary marker compound:
Nuciferine, CAS # 475-83-2.
Applications:
Functional relaxation products, alcohol-alternative concepts, capsules, gummies, and formulation R&D.
Mesembrine / Kanna Extract
Standardized kanna extracts and mesembrine-focused materials for qualified formulation and R&D work. QBI evaluates kanna materials with attention to alkaloid profile, supplier documentation, and analytical review where appropriate.
Specifications:
Mesembrine-type alkaloids; standardization varies by lot.
Primary marker compound:
Mesembrine, CAS #24880-43-1.
Applications:
Mood support, functional relaxation, gummies, capsules, and beverage R&D.
Magnolia Bark Extract
Standardized magnolia bark ingredients focused on honokiol, magnolol, or balanced honokiol/magnolol profiles. Magnolia is one of QBI’s core product families for relaxation-oriented formulation work.
Specifications:
98% Honokiol, 98% Magnolol, and combined honokiol/magnolol specifications, subject to availability and testing.
Primary active constituents:
Honokiol, CAS # 35354-74-6; Magnolol, CAS # 528-43-8.
Applications:
Functional relaxation products, capsules, gummies, powders, and beverage development.
Custom Botanical Sourcing
QBI can evaluate rare botanical extracts, purified actives, and difficult-to-source ingredients that are not yet listed in the public catalog. Custom sourcing projects are best suited for qualified buyers with a defined specification, target quantity, and testing requirement.
Specifications:
Ingredient-specific.
Applications:
R&D, new product development, supplier replacement, and hard-to-source botanical actives.
Akuammine / Akuamma Extract
COMING SOON
Primary active constituents:
Akuammine, CAS # 3512-87-6.
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Tetrahydropalmatine (THP) / Corydalis Yanhusuo Extract
COMING SOON
Primary active constituents:
Tetrahydropalmatine, CAS # 483-14-7.
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Testing-forward sourcing for specialty botanical ingredients.
Before committing to commercial distribution, QBI reviews supplier documentation and uses qualified analytical partners where appropriate to evaluate identity, potency, and contaminant profile. Buyers evaluating new suppliers can also review QBI’s botanical extract verification checklist.
Tell us your target specification, application, and estimated quantity. QBI can share current availability, sample options, and documentation status.