Manufacturing Ethos
Bionutri endorses a good manufacturing ethos. We maintain a conscientious but wholly pragmatic approach to our work. Above all, Bionutri is led by a scientific approach not an idealistic one. We formulate and manufacture our products to provide biological advantage, not adhering to fads that come and go within the health food industry.
Dosing
Dosing is an important factor when either formulating or considering taking a supplement, Bionutri maintains a nutritional mandate:
·Our products are food supplements not functional medicines.
·We believe our role is to provide the best nutrition at a level that remains nutritional.
·We do not look to by-pass nutritional pathways or megadose with single nutrients or enzymes
A new Bionutri product can be years in the making. From a draft formulation to a finished product is a meticulous process, involving multiple stages of research and development, analysis and testing.
Quality Assurance
Among the many individual qualities of our company, Bionutri is most proud of the painstaking lengths we take to guarantee the best ingredients. An independent procurement policy allows us to source the best ingredients from around the world. Below are some examples:
Chios Mastic Gum
Mastic gum is used as the primary ingredient in our digestive support supplement, Mastic Gum Plus. In order to guarantee the best quality ingredients, we source the raw material directly from the farming co-operative on the Island of Chios, Greece. During the harvesting process, the best quality mastic gum is set aside for nutraceutical, cosmetic and pharmaceutical use. We send this raw material to the Netherlands where we contract out a unique grinding and depolymerising process: micronising the mastic gum and providing Bionutri with a highly specialised ingredient.
Vitaflavan
Grape seed extract is a raw material available from North America, South America, China, India, Europe or Australia. We are always looking for the best quality grape seed, which we find to be in the South of France. This is where the Chardonnay grape is selected for its high polyphenol content and then fermented. This provides us with the extraordinary and widely researched ingredient, Vitaflavan. It features widely across the Bionutri range, for example in CT Plex and Antioxidant Complex.
Vitamin C
As one of the most widely utilised nutrients, Vitamin C is quite important. Once again a straightforward approach is key to getting the most out of this fundamental ingredient. Bionutri’s vitamin C is first activated, we then add potassium or magnesium to form a salt of the ascorbic acid. This process ensures the vitamin C in our products provides the nutrient in its most easily utilised and natural form. Furthermore, as a mineral salt the vitamin C is buffered as it moves through the stomach environment, protecting our most sensitive clients.
L-acidophilus
Perhaps the best known biotic organism used in the supplement industry, L-acidophilus is just one of the many organisms Bionutri uses in its formulations. Live biotic cultures are used in many aspects of food fermentation as well as in the supplement industry. Whilst many of the organisms from dairy or vegetable origin used in food fermentation often feature in food supplements, the organisms that feature in Bionutri products are typically human strain organisms. On a biological level this optimises the relevance of the organism to the individual who is consuming it.
We cannot provide an insight to every ingredient here, but if you would like more information about a particular ingredient please contact us.