PREPARATIONS FROM ST. JOHN’S WORT (HYPERICUM PERFORATUM L.) ARE A NICHE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRO-INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

Summary. Аgro-industries are having a significant global impact on economic development. Nonetheless, the full potential of agro-industries as an engine for economic development has not yet been realized in Ukraine, especially in Kherson region. The direction of cultivation and processing of medicinal plants is not very common in Ukraine, but on the contrary, in world practice the topics of healthy living, using the natural ingredients in medicine and the food industry are relevant. Used in work samples of St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) have been collected during springsummer of 2021 within the territory of environmental research department «Burkuty» (hereinafter PNDV «Burkuty»), which is a territorial component of the national nature park «Oleshkivsky sands». The expediency of obtaining a preparation with antimicrobial and colouring properties based on St. John’s wort, which grows in the Kherson region, has been substantiated. A technological scheme has been developed for obtaining a powdery final form of a preparation based on St. John’s wort – preparation «Kh HP» for the food industry. The composition of the obtained preparation was identified by the methods of qualitative analytical analysis, thin layer chromatography and infrared spectroscopy.