Nutrastar Files for Patent on Golden Grass

HARBIN, ChinaNutrastar International Inc. (OTCBB: NUIN) filed a patent application covering the production process for its Golden Grass wine and oral liquids. Derived from Cordyceps militaris, a parasitic fungus found in Northeastern China, Chinese Golden Grass was used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to support the lungs and kidneys. According to the company, it currently holds 19 percent of the world market for cultivated Chinese Golden Grass.

According to Nutrastar, the company invested heavily in R&D to develop techniques necessary to produce liquid versions of the Golden Grass products, which offer substantial growth potential in the TCM market. Trial production is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2011.

Lianyun Han, Nutrastars founder and CEO, said, I would like to thank our highly dedicated R&D team for allowing Nutrastar to bring such highly popular products, Golden Grass wine and Golden Grass oral liquids, to the TCM market. We are very excited to add these products to our growing pipeline and look forward to additional applications from our R&D team."