Aloe vera use in mostly in cosmetic industry and medicine (it has wound healing properties), the use as a food supplement of aloe is a different story, it has no proven benefits for human health, there is a buzz about aloe being a superfood but no solid facts.

Health benefits of aloe vera include its application in wound healing, treating burns, minimizing frost bite damage, protection against skin damage from x-rays, lung cancer, intestinal problems, increasing high density lipoprotein (HDL), reducing low density lipoprotein (LDL), reducing blood sugar in diabetics, fighting acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), allergies and improving immune system .

Depending on type of product and how the product is produced, the nutrition value may or may not such that much. In Asian, some friendly consumers may think aloe vera as a cooling body product. The first thing they can think when they buy this product is to reduce the heat in their body.

In the food industry, Aloe vera has been utilized as a resource of functional food, especially for the preparation of health food drinks and other beverages,

including tea. Potential use of aloe products often involves some type of processing, e.g. heating, dehydration and grinding. Processing may cause irreversible modifications to the polysaccharides, affecting their original structure which may promote important changes in the proposed physiological and pharmaceutical properties of these constituents. Processing of Aloe vera gel derived from the leaf pulp

of the plant, has become a big industry worldwide due to the application in the food industry. It has been utilized as a resource of functional food, especially for the preparation of health drinks which contain Aloe vera gel and which have no laxative effects. It is also used in other food products, for example, milk, ice cream confectionery and so on. However, Aloe vera gel juice was not very popular due to their laxative effect and majority of them contained absolutely no active mucilaginous polysaccharides or acemannan.