Abstract:

Plant polyphenols, as one of the important natural products, widely exists in plants. It have been used in many traditional industries, such as leather-making, chemical engineering, medicine, agriculture, food and material. Especially in the recent years, the encouragement to environmental protection and green science accelerated plant polyphenols research and progress. In this paper, development trend and use prospect of this research field is summarized from its applications on traditional industry and fine chemicals utilizations industry.

Key words: natural products, plant polyphenol, vegetable tannins