Whole Food Multivitamins
Whole Food Vitamins - Vitamins that contain no trace of synthetic isolated nutrients, are derived solely from food, and contain the complex matrix of whole food are considered Whole Food Vitamins, or 100% Food Vitamins; this is one of the fastest growing supplement categories in the vitamin industry. The benefit of this source is that they contain the entire natural attachments found in a healthy meal. This includes lipids, carbohydrates, proteins, enzymes and phytonutrients.
Enzyme Activated Nutrient™ Vitamins (New) - This new concept provides the highest quality multi- vitamin available. The food nutrient source is grown and processed in a way that naturally preserves the matrix of whole foods, including the enzymes that are a natural part of the food structure.
Enzyme Activated Nutrients™, like any nutritious whole food, contain naturally occurring beneficial factors such as Amino Acids, Branch Chain Amino Acids, Beta Glucans, GABA, Glutathione, Lipoic Acid, Polysaccharides, Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP), Essential Trace Minerals, Glycoproteins, and Lipoproteins.
A unique enzyme blend is added to further enhance the value of the vitamins and minerals to the body. This exciting breakthrough is considered in further detail throughout this publication.
Nutriments
The reason most people take a vitamin and mineral supplement is to prevent or overcome nutrient deficiencies. Enzymedica’s vitamins and minerals however, do not fit the definition of a supplement; they are best defined as a nutriment. However don’t confuse nutriment with nutrient.
The Merriam Webster Dictionary provides the following definitions:
Supplement - a product taken orally that contains one or more ingredients that are intended to supplement one’s diet and are not considered food.
Nutrient - a substance that plants, animals, and people need to live and grow.
Nutriment - something that nourishes or promotes growth, provides energy, repairs body tissues, and maintains life.
The most common form of vita- min and mineral supplements sold today are isolated single nutrients combined with other isolated single nutrients. No single isolated vitamin or mineral in any nutrient matrix is solely responsible for a nutrition- al benefit; it must be attached to cofactors and enzymes to be utilized by the cells of the body.
Though our bodies are capable of providing the needed attachments, the process is very inefficient and results a in a low percentage of utilization when compared to the dose consumed. Moreover, isolated vitamins and minerals are not found in whole food; for example, ascorbic acid (what nutritional supplement companies call Vitamin C) is never by itself, except in a lab.
Vitamins and minerals (nutrients) that are part of a complex matrix of naturally occurring compounds in whole foods are best described as nutriments. This complex matrix includes enzymes, coenzymes, cofactors and phytonutrients, along with amino acids, lipids and carbo- hydrates.
The greater the density of vitamins or minerals bound in such a matrix, the greater nutritional value of the food and the more benefit the body will derive from the food, or nutriment. In nature, a naturally occurring vitamin or mineral is never just a single isolated molecule.
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