Dandelion (Taraxacum Officinale) Leaf and Root Extraction: A Systematic Review

This review critically assesses various strategies for the isolation of bioactive from dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), which covers both traditional methods such as maceration and decoction, as well as more advanced ones including ultrasonic and microwave-assisted extraction methods. The traditional methods are favorite for their simplicity and user-friendliness, a quality that makes them suitable even for resource-low settings in terms of efficiency; however, they frustrate due to slow extraction times. While on the one hand, advanced techniques rely on modern technology to greatly improve the previously insufficient and slow extraction process alongside a number of environmental benefits, such as solvent destruction and energy saving, the key strategies, on the other hand, isn’t that effective to achieve the target. The paper follows this line by appraising the two methods of close efficiency, range fitting for different types of compounds, and given environmental impact in order to pinpoint a mix of ultimate practices for obtaining the valuable phytochemicals from dandelion. These results support observation of the tendency to use modern science and innovations to focus on efficiency and sustainability in phytochemical extraction from herbal resources.