What is Synephrine?

Synephrine is a dietary supplement that can help reduce body fat in humans. Although its function is debated, synephrine is primarily extracted from a fruit called the bitter lime. Due to its potential benefit of increasing fat oxidation, the substance is widely included in dietary supplements.

Synephrine is mainly extracted from a fruit Citrus aurantium, the dried young fruit of the rutaceae plant lime. Evergreen small trees, citrus fruit round, slightly flat, orange-yellow, rough rind, flowering in April to May, fruiting in November. Synephrine is widely used in medicine, food, beverage and other health care industries.