Ingredients

We offer a wide range of nutritional ingredients to meet almost any requirement for product fortification. The following five nutrient families play an important role to ensure a varied and balanced diet:

Vitamins

Vitamins are essential organic nutrients required in very small amounts for normal metabolism, growth and physical well-being. Most vitamins are not made in the body, or only in insufficient amounts, and are mainly obtained through food. When their intake is inadequate, it may have health impacts.

Almost no single food contains all of the vitamins so a balanced and varied diet is necessary for an adequate intake. However, a balanced diet is not always possible to achieve which is why fortified foods play an important role.

Each of the 13 vitamins known today has specific functions in the body, which makes every one of them unique and irreplaceable. Vitamins are essential for life!

Dietary Minerals

Dietary Minerals are the chemical elements required by living organisms that are present in common organic molecules.

Calcium
Chloride
Cobalt
Copper
Iodine
Iron
Magnesium
Manganese
Molybdenum
Nickel
Phosphorus
Potassium
Selenium
Sodium
Sulfur
Zinc

Dietary minerals can be part of vitamin-mineral premixes or they can be used separated as mineral premixes. Since several minerals (i.e. iron, copper, etc.) may affect the stability of vitamins, the latter alternative may be preferable when their relative concentration is high, which will make the premix more stable.

Macro-minerals (Calcium, Phosphorus and Magnesium) as well as electrolytes (Sodium and Potassium) are rarely included in vitamin-mineral premixes due to their relatively high weight.

Amino Acids

Amino Acids have a variety of roles in metabolism. One particularly important function is as the building blocks of proteins. Amino acids are also important in many other biological molecules and play a central role in biochemistry, which makes them very important in nutrition.

Of the 20 standard amino acids, eight are called essential amino acids because the human body cannot synthesize them from other compounds at the level needed for normal growth, so they must be obtained from food. These are:

Isoleucine
Lysine
Leucine
Methionine
Phenylalanine
Threonine
Tryptophan
Valine
Taurine*
Inositol**
Choline***

*Taurine is a derivative of the sulfur-containing (sulfhydryl) amino acid Cysteine. Strictly speaking, it is not an amino acid as it lacks a carboxyl group, but it is often called one, even in scientific literature.

**Inositol is a nutrient in the vitamin B complex that the body needs in small amounts to function and stay healthy. Inositol helps cells make membranes and respond to messages from their environment.

***Choline is an organic compound, classified as a water-soluble essential nutrient usually grouped within the Vitamin B complex. This natural amine is found in the lipids that make up cell membranes and in the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Adequate intakes (AI) for this micronutrient of between 425 to 550 milligrams daily, for adults, have been established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Nucleotides

Nucleotides are molecules that, when joined together, make up the structural units of RNA and DNA. Additionally, nucleotides play central roles in metabolism. In that capacity, they serve as sources of chemical energy, participate in cellular signaling and are incorporated into important cofactors of enzymatic reactions.

Adenosine-5 monophosphate
Cytidine-5 monophosphate
Disodium guanosine-5 monophosphate
Disodium uridine-5 monophosphate
Disodium inosine-5 monophosphate

Nutraceuticals

Nutraceuticals refer to extracts of foods which have a physiological effect on health. We offer a wide range of nutraceuticals. To specify your individual requirements please contact our local formulation center.