Kojic Acid: A Comprehensive Review

Due to the emerging nature of kojic acid, current project was conducted to introduce the abilities in details. KA is produced industrially by Aspergillus species in aerobic fermentation. Its structure was identified as 5-hydroxymethyl-pyrone. The KA plays an important role in determining certain chemical and physical properties it possesses. KA has different applications in various fields. It is broadly utilized in cosmetics, medicine, food, agriculture, chemical and other industries. These days kojic acid performs a vital function in cosmetics specically skin care products because it enhances the capability to prevent UV radiation it extensively utilized in whitening creams and lotions because of its anti tyrosinase activity. Kojic acid keeps getting hold on attention because of its economic potential as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic agent in the medical field. KA is utilized as an anti-bacterial agent in food industry & because of its antioxidant activity it is utilized as an antibrowning agent for agriculture products. Due to various uses of organic molecules the demand for kojic acid has rapidly increased. It also has some drawbacks, such as the KA is highly unstable upon exposure air and sunlight it changes its color and the other drawback is cytotoxicity which may be overcome by way of the formation of kojic acid peptides which are more stable.