What to Look For In Selecting A High Quality Nutritional Supplement

For example the best antioxidant products always remove more free radicals than the cheaper products. This helps better protect your body from disease and aging.

The very best nutritional products are much more highly absorbable than cheap products delivering many more precious nutrients to your body. You see the mis-conception most people have about nutritional products is they read the label and the cheap product says for example 500 mg Vitamin C, 500 Mg Calcium. Then they read the label of the high quality and it says essentially the same thing.

Except here is the big difference - with the cheap product your body in some cases only absorbs 5-10 percent of the nutrients. While in the high quality product your body can easily absorb 5 -10 times or even more of these valuable nutrients.

This is because manufactures are only required to put on the label what they put in the product before manufacture. This can be a far cry from how much your body absorbs of the final product. The high quality products are formulated so your body absorbs a much higher amount of the actual product.

Here are the characteristics that only the highest quality products employ during development.

First let me share with you a little bit about the nutrition and herbal industry as a whole.

Raw Materials

First of all did you know that they are huge differences in the quality of herbal raw materials. There can be big differences in the amount of active ingredients based upon where the plant was grown, the seed used for growing, what part of the plant is being used, how the plant was harvested, when it was harvested, and even how the plant was stored. Plus some batches can have many more contaminants and impurities than others.

Raw ingredients especially herbals should be stored in low humidity and a low temperature environment and yet many aren't stored properly.

Of course a good product starts with strict inspection processes of the raw materials.

Raw materials are screened, inspected and even quarantined to assure they meet optimal standards.

Any tablets and capsules go through strict sizing and weight requirements.

Also a good quality capsule, tablet supplement will contain a coating for ease of swallowing and this coating will typically contain a high quality antioxidant like alpha-lipoic acid to help protect the tablet against oxidation and loss of potency.

The Product Testing Phase

High quality nutrition supplements will undergo a Battery of Tests like:

Disintegration Testing – tests to insure tablet will disintegrate under conditions found in the human body

Dissolution Testing - tests to insure tablet will dissolve in order to be absorbed and utilized by the body.

Microbiological Analysis - tests to insure absence of harmful bacteria, yeast, and mold.

Potency Analysis – tests using sophisticated laboratory equipment like Spectrometry, Chromatography and Spectroscopy.

Content Uniformity Analysis – In this test samples are analyzed to make sure that they contain the same levels of active ingredients.

Also with high quality supplements the manufacturer pays great attention to packaging to assure it protects the valuable active ingredients.

So you now have a basic idea of what to look for in a super high quality nutritional supplement.

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