Aloe Vera, your best choice for a healthy and functional drink

Consumers are more conscious than ever about making responsible food choices. Functional beverages?play an essential role in modern life and contribute to nutritional well-being.

Current efforts to understand and develop functional beverages to promote health and wellness have been increased.?

Determining?ingredients and their?bioactive compounds and incorporating them into beverages requires thorough knowledge.

The?functional beverages?market offers new product opportunities to those companies that understand consumers’ preferences and choice motives and can develop and market functional beverages that meet consumers’ expectations.?

Energy drinks,?sports drinks, and functional bottled water are among the functional and fortified beverage categories showing immense growth in recent years. The market for functional beverages represents the largest and fastest-growing segment of the functional foods sector.?

There is a growing demand for functional hydration or “beauty beverages” containing collagen and cinnamon extracts in soft drinks for diabetes for heart health.?In Japan, “energy shots,” the nutrient-loaded drinks in small packs, and in India and China, large value packs are on-trend.?

Nutraceutical beverages are another segment of functional beverages that are currently emerging and comprise natural products that reduce the risk of chronic disease beyond basic nutritional functions.

Future?functional beverage?innovative research may emphasize the beverages targeting specific body parts such as bones, joints, eyes, sleep improvement, weight management, cholesterol management, healthy teeth, energy, and the elderly market segment, which will lead to more market opportunities across demographic groups.

Aloe’s polysaccharides contribute to?active ingredient absorption due to their enhancing properties. Currently, the new trend on the?global market is to use Aloe Vera as a vehicle for other functional ingredients, enhancing their?bioavailability instead of using other carriers?that will not contribute at all to the better?absorption of the other ingredients. Nowadays,?Aloe Vera can be found mixed with other actives?such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, botanical?extracts, and so on, making the final product?significantly different- and sometimes even more?attractive to the consumers- than using plain?water and vitamins to make an efficacy drink.

Aloe Vera has proven to be an excellent vehicle?of active and other botanical ingredients for functional beverages, sports beverages,?fortified drinks, smoothies, and infant fruit juice beverages. Aloe Vera is an ingredient that?will surely boost the new “Naturally Healthy”?beverage trend.

Aloe Vera Gel, well known for its nutraceutical potential, is being explored as a functional ingredient in many health foods and drinks. Processing exotic fruits and herbal botanicals into a functional beverage is an emerging sector in the food industry.

Fruits and Vegetable Juice as Functional Beverages

Functional beverages, a subsector of the functional food industry and the fastest growing sector of the functional food market, have become increasingly popular among conscientious consumers due to their perceived health benefits. Suitability, affordability, and health benefits are the most significant factors where consumers make decisions to purchase functional beverages. Functional beverages claim to improve athletic endurance, energy, and hydration associated with various health benefits like healthy cardiovascular (CV) system, cancer prevention, healthy digestive system, immune defense, bodyweight reduction, joint health improvement, and others.

?It is emphasized to identify the?bioactive compounds?in the fruit juice and the mechanism by which bioactive compounds in fruit juice render their beneficial health effects. Fruit juice is also a good source of nutraceuticals. By definition, the nutraceutical is referred to components in food, both nutrient, and non-nutrient, that render beneficial health effects through disease prevention. These are generally used in the medicinal form of pills, capsules, and juices. Thus, the ingredients that are building blocks of the beverages, especially fruit or vegetable juices, their positive impact on health should be investigated, and their content should be summarized.?

The?functional beverage?sector can be segmented into probiotics, energy, sports, nutraceutical, dairy-based, juices, enhanced water, etc.?

Aloe Vera consumption Increases Vitamin Bioavailability.

Recent research, sponsored by the International Aloe Science Council (IASC), concluded Aloe Vera increases vitamins C and E levels in the bloodstream by more than 200 % when consumed. The study also concluded Aloe Vera can enhance the bioavailability of both water- and fat-soluble vitamins and has a natural time-release effect (vitamin levels were found to remain elevated for 24 hours, according to the study).?

Like Aloe, vitamins C and E are known to be powerful antioxidants that boost immune system function, promote skin health, and protect cardiovascular health. The bioavailability research has created a landmark event, and a major turning point for the functional food and nutraceutical industry; these companies realize the benefits of incorporating Aloe Vera into their products containing vitamins C and E.?

Aloe Vera gel enhances the bioavailability of vitamins C and E in humans. Also, it can significantly reduce transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER) of Caco-2 cell monolayers and significantly enhance the transport of insulin across this cell culture model. The transport enhancement effect of Aloe Vera materials is probably due to the opening of tight junctions to allow paracellular transport. Aloe Vera’s polysaccharides contribute to their drug absorption enhancing properties.?The effect of Aloe Vera on the oral bioavailability of vitamins C and E was investigated in humans in a randomized, double-blind, cross-over clinical trial. Both the gel and aloe vera gel extract decreased the rate of vitamin C absorption. Still, the overall bioavailability (area-undercurve) of vitamin C was 3 times higher when administered with the Aloe gel as compared to the control, and the gel kept the level of this vitamin significantly higher (p ≤ 0.05) than the Vaseline even after 24 hours.?The mechanism of action of the Aloe products to improve the bioavailability of the vitamins was explained to be a possible protective effect against the degradation of the vitamins in the intestinal tract and binding of the polysaccharides to the vitamins, thereby slowing down the absorption rate. Many potential therapeutic agents face the disadvantage of low bioavailability after oral administration due to poor membrane permeability. Drug absorption enhancers are compounds capable of reversibly removing the resistance of the outer layers in the body with minimum tissue damage, thus allowing the drug to enter the blood circulation in sufficient quantities.

Aloe Vera polysaccharides enhance your formula.

Polysaccharides, now more commonly called glycosaminoglycans, are a special form of polysaccharides. They are made in the human body and perform many key functions in our health, including promoting growth and enhancing the immune system.?

Formulate with Aloe Vera to deliver these polysaccharides to your customers. We all know how exhausting it can be to live an active, busy lifestyle. Aloe Vera is your solution in nutraceutical ingredients to boost your vitality due it is very rich in various nutrients. These nutrients help Aloe Vera nourish and enhance immunity.?

Aloe Vera is nutrient-dense, meaning they contain a broad spectrum of synergistic concentrated beneficial macro and micronutrients that help or enhance the body’s abilities to generate healthy cells and maintain optimum operational performance. Aloe is a great carrier increasing the bioavailability of other compounds. The great success of Aloe as a commodity for use in nutritional foods and cosmetics is due to the proper stabilizing procedures that enable processors to store and ship the Aloe Gel without fear of spoilage throughout the market places of the world. Aloe provides a unique form of low molecular weight polysaccharides; as we age, our bodies produce less and less energy, are filled with stress, and have low defense in the body.?

As most of the vitamins and supplements that we consume are flushed out of our system before we can absorb them fully, Aloe polysaccharides are considered the main

the biologically active component of Aloe that helps enhance nutrient absorption. The overall effectiveness of Aloe Vera in promoting health in the human body is hugely dependent on the polysaccharides found in Aloe Vera, as it can boost your sales of a new class of functional beverages. Aloe Vera can be a convenient composition containing very broad-spectrum, 100 percent natural, organic, plant macro, and micronutrients. Aloe Vera can be incorporated into any fruit juices or green herbs beverages as a nutritive additive to waters, fruit juices, and other beverages. Fundamentally, in many countries throughout the globe, botanicals are the first choice in preventative health, and the costs are not just monetary. Conventional healthcare is costly both monetarily and in many, depressing quality of life results due to side effects.

Aloe Vera is a very promising future nutritional Bio-enhancer. Aloe Vera Powder has been shown to increase the solubility of water-insoluble active ingredients. The concentration of Aloe Vera is directly proportional to the active ingredient release; Aloe Vera can be used as a bioavailability enhancer.

Today, many natural products are available to consumers to help them live better, fuller, healthier, and happier lives. Aloe Vera has been one of the favorites among the top ten natural products for years.

Give a boost to your sales by launching a new line of natural and healthy beverages.

Make Aloe Vera your platform for your nutritional formulation, adding plant extracts, amino acids, trace minerals, and so on… in multiple uses and forms.?AMB Wellness?is your partner on this project.?Be creative and maximize the benefits of your consumers; make Aloe Vera natural or mixed with other active compounds. Aloe Vera provides the ideal sources of broad-spectrum nutrients in their most bioavailable form for the body’s optimal utilization. Its nutrients are essential and beneficial for human consumption and use.

If you want more information related to functional drinks and how Aloe Vera can be the added value, do not hesitate to contact us and visit our website?www.amb-wellness.com

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Ilse De la Torre