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The Role of Sports Nutrition in Personalized Performance
Today’s athletes are interested in more than mere sports nutrition; they are looking for products for sports performance, exercise recovery, or long-term energy throughout the day. USP ingredient supplier Bell Chem wants your industry to respond with our high-quality products to give your consumers the ultimate in sports nutrition.
The future of sports nutrition
Within 3 years, the amount of growth in sports nutrition is projected to continue its upward trend, reaching toward an estimated 10% overall increase. This may not seem like much, but the actual forecasted revenue is $24.4 billion by next year, according to Grand View Research. A large proportion of this upward trend is due to the change in consumers. Rather than hardcore athletes, the sports nutrition market now appeals to consumers looking for a healthier lifestyle; so many of these new customers exist they have been dubbed “active lifestyle consumers.”
What consumers want
If your sports nutrition beverage or food includes electrolytes such as potassium or sodium, know that 33% of consumers are more likely to be attracted to your product. Add protein as an ingredient and 50% of the population will think favorably of it. Lastly, the addition of an energy booster, such as caffeine or B vitamins, will truly stimulate sales.
Functional Snacks
Rather than reaching for a pack of cookies or chips, shoppers are searching out functional snacks. Fortified granola or fruit bars, sports drinks, and even fortified traditional snacks such as cookies and snack cakes are marketable to active lifestyle consumers. This customer base is on the go, which means snacks must be portable as well. Adding Bell Chem’s line of vitamins, fiber, proteins (especially plant-based proteins), omega fatty acids, or probiotics can significantly stimulate sales.
Weight management
No matter what their weight, a huge percentage of consumers are not happy with how much they weigh. Adding Bell Chem’s protein or fiber will satiate the appetite while diminishing caloric intake for those who wish to lose weight. Carbohydrate-conscious consumers may turn to coconut oil as an ingredient if they wish to curb their intake, or to high carb formulas to restore glycogen lost during exercise.
Personalized nutrition
The market for children’s nutrition has been researched for decades, but women’s nutrition is rather new. Products designed for women generally contain calcium and iron in higher concentrations, both stocked by Bell Chem.
Bell Chem, USP ingredient supplier, is based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including a wide array of alkaline cleaners. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355).
Understanding the Benefits of Tru-Flo® Food Grade Salt
Salt is ubiquitous on almost every kitchen table. It is also used to de-ice roads, remove impurities in manufacturing, and to create soap. Tru-Flo® food grade salt can be used in these industries, but because it is over 99% pure sodium chloride (NaCl) and only contains trace amounts of insoluble materials, it is best suited for culinary uses. Food ingredient supplier Bell Chem stocks Tru-Flo Evaporated Food Grade Salt for all your dietary needs.
Food flavoring
Flavoring and salt walk hand in hand. Tru-Flo salt has the unique capability of enhancing the other flavors of food, which is why many baked goods add salt as an ingredient to bring out the sweet flavors of sugar, chocolate, or other confections. Tru-Flo salt on its own is likewise a flavoring; we relate salt to almost every processed food, even those only minimally processed. Why do we eat more salt than is necessary? The human body craves salt to maintain homeostasis in the tissues and bloodstream. When this careful balance is upset, our brains deliver a signal that we must eat something salty and we reach for chips, condiments, or a jar of pickles.
Food preservation
Food preservation often calls for large amounts of salt (20% by weight) to cure meats or other foods. Tru-Flo salt draws out water from foods in a process known as osmosis, creating an inhospitable environment since the majority of organisms rely on water – which has been driven out – and cannot thrive in the now highly salted environment. Dried meats can be preserved without the use of refrigeration or canning.
The advantages of Tru-Flo salt
Tru-Flo salts have been naturally harvested from the sea, in natural brine, or in salt deposits on land. Once selected, these salts are manufactured until they are highly purified. You know your products will contain the highest grade sodium chloride possible with Tru-Flo salts.
Tru-Flo salts are also graded by granule size, ensuring the salt you purchase will dissolve at the same rapid rate producing a clear, briny solution. As a dry ingredient, Tru-Flo salt flows smoothly without clumping. Tru-Flo salts meet or exceed the expectations of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Food Chemical Codex (FCC).
Bell Chem is a food ingredient supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including Tru-Flo Food Grade Salt. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
How ViCALity SG Calcium Carbonate is Used
Food grade ViCALity®SG contains high purity calcium carbonate with the lowest lead content (0.4 parts per million) on the market. USP ingredient supplier Bell Chem wants you to be aware of the many advantages of stocking your shelves with ViCALity.
Food industry
The advantages of small particle size are more apparent in foods, since larger particles tend to dominate the flavor profile. When an additive does not wish to detract from other flavors, this minute size is ideal, such as in ice cream, other dairy products and infant formula, where ViCALity can add important minerals while not affecting the flavors.
Calcium such as ViCALity is often added as a buffering agent during microbial fermentation or for culturing products in both lab settings and in manufacturing.
Pharmaceutical
Soft-chew supplements high in calcium and antacids rely on ViCALity’s small particle size and USP ingredients to easily measure and pour the correct dose into tablets without affecting the taste. Along with a boost of the essential element calcium, ViCALity acts as a filler in pills and tablets.
Health and beauty
Calcium is lightly abrasive, and the smaller particle size of ViCALity allows the scrubbing away of surface debris from dental surfaces without negatively affecting the enamel. For this reason, ViCALity is often an additive to toothpastes and creams. ViCALity can be used to thoroughly clean dentures and bridgework as well.
When cosmetics are manufactured, one of their major selling points is appearance. Along with adding beneficial calcium to products, ViCALity also acts as a buffering agent as it lowers the pH of acidic products, making them more neutral to better react with the skin’s sensitive surface; a bulking additive to not only keep products from being runny, but also to spread active ingredients more thoroughly to prevent an abnormally high amount of ingredients in too small an area; and to give products either a white sheen or simply causing otherwise clear products to become opaque.
Bell Chem is a USP ingredient supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including ViCALity®SG. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Potassium Citrate for Kidney Stone Prevention and Treatment
The amount of potassium citrate used in the medical industry is likely to increase as the world’s temperature increases. If this seems like a strange claim, read the information below brought to you by USP ingredient supplier Bell Chem.
The human body maintains a level of homeostasis where the average pH correlates to approximately 7.4. This number places the body in a slightly basic level. If the amount drops below a pH of 7, the condition is considered acidic.
Many kidney diseases are brought on by a lowered pH, including renal tubular acidosis, gout brought on by high uric acid levels, and varied types of kidney stones.
Acidic levels decrease with the introduction of the urinary alkalinizer potassium citrate (generally taken orally as an extended-release tablet), thereby not only alleviating existing gout and kidney problems, but also preventing these anomalies.
Climate change and potassium citrate increase
As the world warms, people perspire more frequently. Perspiration cools the human body and works effectively if the levels of water released are replenished. However, water is not always close at hand for many, and dehydration leads to many complications in the human body. One of these is an increase in the amount of kidney stones created and passed.
For those who have suffered through the agony of passing a kidney stone, an important preventative that cuts the likelihood of recurrence in half is simply drinking water. A few liters of water daily keep the body from becoming overly acidic by diluting the blood, which prevents the formation of all 4 types of kidney stones: calcium oxalate or calcium phosphate stones, cystine stones, struvite (magnesium ammonium phosphate) stones, and uric acid stones.
Calcium stones are the most common and are related to a concentration of calcium in the urine, which crystallizes into stones; cystine stones lead to cystinuria, a rare genetic disorder; struvite stones are the result of one of several bacterial infections; and uric acid stones contribute to the disease uric acid lithiasis.
Kidney stones, a common affliction
Currently 9% of United States adults suffer from kidney stones (nephrolithiasis) at least once during their lives. Depending on the type of kidney stones, methods of control or prevention may include the addition of calcium in the diet, controlling the formation of stones with potassium citrate, or increasing water intake. Hospitals and clinics should keep potassium citrate close at hand for their patients who are in the grips of nephrolithiasis or likely to pass kidney stones again.
Bell Chem is an USP ingredient supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including potassium citrate. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
How SIPERNAT® 22 is Used Across Industries
Industrial chemical supplier Bell Chem wishes to let its customers in on a little secret – SIPERNAT® 22. This astonishing material made of precipitated silica will surely transform your industry as it adjusts viscosity and transforms water levels within products.
How does SIPERNAT 22 work?
The structure of SIPERNAT is its superpower. Imagine each small silica-based SIPERNAT structure as a sponge, with tiny pores available to rapidly adhere to water molecules and remove that water from a dry, pourable solid. Unlike a sponge, which expands in size when water is absorbed, SIPERNAT 22 maintains its shape. When SIPERNAT 22 is added to an empty industrial mixer, the liquid is slowly added as the mixer is running to thoroughly mix the SIPERNAT with either a liquid or pourable solid.
SIPERNAT 22 changes flow rates
It seems contradictory that some liquids are detrimental to flowing or pouring, but think about syrupy, viscous liquids. As defined, a liquid is simply a substance that conforms to its container, which means a liquid can range from extremely thin to excessively viscous.
SIPERNAT 22 absorbs liquids
Think of a pourable solid, such as a powder mix. Now think of the calamity when water enters the mix at the incorrect time. The mix may begin clumping and adhere to the inside of containers, equipment, or packaging. With its capability of absorbing a huge amount of liquid, the anti-caking carrier effect of SIPERNAT 22 gives it a high rating for reducing or eliminating clumping in pourable solids.
SIPERNAT 22 in mechanical graphics papers
Within the printing industry, adding SIPERNAT 22 reduces ink bleeding by picking up excess ink, which increases printability and smoothness. With less paper/ink friction, the machinery experiences less wear and the paper appears cleaner and more legible.
Which industries benefit from using SIPERNAT?
Manufacturers of adhesives, adsorbents, coatings, composites, cosmetics, pesticides, polyethylene films, printing, rubber, sealants, and thermoplastics all note an uptick in speed, less wear, and better overall performance of equipment when SIPERNAT 22 is part of their manufacturing process.
Bell Chem is an industrial chemical supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including many replacements for known food allergens. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
What is Maltodextrin? Understanding the Popular Food Additive
With all the talk about simple and complex carbohydrates, it is sometimes confusing knowing what customers are consuming. Maltodextrin is a complex carbohydrate, which means it can break into 2 or more simple carbohydrates. Maltodextrin is processed from the starch of corn, potato, rice, or wheat. Learn more about this popular food additive and how it can improve your products from your food additive supplier, Bell Chem.
The creation of maltodextrin
Maltodextrin is the end product of a process in which a vegetable starch is hydrolyzed, then soaked in acid or enzymes in order to reduce the product to a smaller form. After saturation, maltodextrin is transformed into a water-soluble white powder without much flavor.
Why would a flavorless product replace sugar?
For many consumers, sugar is more than a flavoring. Instead, it is an integral cellular fuel responsible for sustaining health. In that respect, maltodextrin may be used in a product as an additional supply of necessary calories when no flavor is necessary. Its chemical properties allow it to rapidly supply the human body with the same amount of energy and calories as sucrose.
Uses for maltodextrin
Energy and sports drinks are marketed as expedient energy replacements, and adding maltodextrin to these products brings their claims to life. Because it is easily digestible, maltodextrin quickly supplies tired muscles fibers with an energy boost by restoring blood sugar levels.
Another hot topic as of late is gut health. Maltodextrin promotes fermentation of the digestive system’s bacteria and improves digestion overall.
When health concerns include rapid weight loss, adding maltodextrin enhances the uptake of carbohydrates to negate fatigue.
With its ability to dissolve quickly and its neutral flavor, maltodextrin is often added as a filler in foods requiring carbohydrates, such as energy bars and processed foods. This inexpensive additive easily decreases manufacturing costs of many foods.
When foods are emulsified, maltodextrin keeps them from separating by absorbing fats within a watery matrix, thus improving consistency.
Dressings, gravies, and sauces would be noticeably runnier without the addition of maltodextrin to increase viscosity.
In powdered mixes, maltodextrin assists in separating and distributing key flavorings to maintain the same taste with every use. It also decreases oxidation, which increases a product’s shelf life.
In frozen foods and beverages, maltodextrin maintains the creaminess of the texture by preventing clumps from occurring.
Bell Chem is a food additive supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including many replacements for known food allergens. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Understanding the Acids Used in Commercial Cleaning
Commercial cleaning seems very cut and dried. Use a strong chemical to ensure all surfaces are free of the great majority of pathogens and appear clean. However, not all cleaners are created equally. Industrial cleaning requires a variety of formulas and pH levels to properly clean all areas. Industrial chemical supplier Bell Chem stocks hundreds of cleaners, and many of those are acidic.
Why use an acid?
Acids have a pH lower than the average pH of 7. Acidic conditions are generally unfavorable to many microbes, with the likelihood of contamination fluctuating with how acidic a cleaner is. Acidic cleaners can range from mild to strong, depending on your needs.
Strong Acids
These are examples of strong acids that are frequently used in industrial cleaning:
Hydrobromic acid serves as a flux material to cleanse metals before they are soldered. In food prep areas, hydrobromic acid controls bacteria and other pathogens.
Hydrochloric acid is an ideal acidic cleaner for bathroom surfaces, such as bathtubs, sinks, tiles, and toilets.
Muriatic acid is ideal for persistent stains, rust, and mold from many surfaces such as brick, natural stone, and swimming pools.
As a fantastic all-around cleaner, nitric acid can specifically target soak tanks. Its use with steam cleaning devices is renowned. Nitric acid in electronics has the ability to clean silicon wafers. When combined with phosphoric acid, food and dairy equipment are quickly cleared of precipitated calcium and magnesium buildup.
Mineral deposits, grime, and hard water stains are eradicated with phosphoric acid. Many manufacturers use phosphoric acid as a degreaser and oxidizer, giving it use in cleaning products both indoors and outdoors. Clean tile, grout, natural stone, masonry, and concrete with phosphoric acid. If you are targeting cement grout haze, lime deposits, rust, hard water deposits, and grime, reach for phosphoric acid.
Another contender is sulfuric acid, which is frequently used in toilet bowl cleaners to break through drain blockage, to dissolve rust on surfaces, and to rinse away stains in clothes and dishes. Sulfuric acid is also effective in breaking apart organic products such as food, grease, and hair.
Weak Acids
These are weaker acids that are used for commercial cleaning on more sensitive surfaces:
To remove limescale and hard water stains, and as a toilet bowl cleaner, oven and stove top cleaner, and drain opener, rely on formic acid.
Hydrofluoric acid removes rust as an oxidizer, removes stains, and dissolves silicates on surfaces.
While oxalic acid is considered a weak acid, it is stronger than most other weak acids. Its properties lend it to be used much like bleach for more stringent cleaning. Oxalic acid removes stains and rust from concrete, metal, fabric, leather, wood, stone, brick, and linoleum. In laundering products, oxalic acid as part of an acid rinse removes rust and ink.
Bell Chem is an industrial chemical supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including acid cleaners. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Glycerine Uses in Pharmaceutical Products
Glycerine (C3H8O3, glycerol, or glycerin) has long been recognized for its range of uses in pharmacy and personal health care products. Bell Chem, USP ingredient supplier, wishes to share many of the advantages glycerine USP has within the realm of healthcare.
A USP Ingredient
What exactly is USP and why is it important? The United States Pharmacopeia has strict guidelines on the biologics, testing, compounding, and manufacturing of all aspects of pharmaceutical products. Using tested analytical tools to deliver the highest levels of predictability across all forms of testing and manufacture, a USP-registered product is recognized as one with the highest level of certainty that the contents match the known label.
Adding Sweetness
Glycerine USP’s sweet flavor leads to its inclusion as an excipient in many syrups and lozenges. As a matter of fact, glycerine is second only to water as a pharmaceutical excipient.
Turning Up the Volume
The viscous, syrupy flow of glycerine USP aids in the formulation of creams, expectorants, suppositories, jellies, and gel capsules. Many cough and cold remedies add glycerine as an expectorant. Its increased volume also soothes eyes when it is an added ophthalmic ingredient. It is often used to help treat glaucoma since glycerine USP reduces and stabilizes intraocular pressure by removing excess fluid in the aqueous and vitreous humors, delivering them safely into the bloodstream. Ophthalmologists also rely on glycerine during surgical procedures. The middle ear is greatly soothed when glycerine is included in ear drops as it coats the ear canal.
Adding Pressure
Intravenous application of glycerine reduces cerebral edema as it draws water from inside the cranium. Elsewhere in the body, glycerine is the primary ingredient given in preparation of a colonoscopy as it removes water from the surrounding tissues to be eliminated.
Aiding Skin Health
Non comedogenic glycerine gently cleanses the skin without clogging pores without the use of harsh chemicals. – a boon for those suffering from acne or other skin inflammation anomalies.
Extreme dry skin is no match to glycerine since it acts as a barrier to the epidermis, countering the removal of moisture to the environment as it draws water from the air into the skin. Many anti-aging creams contain glycerine for its ability to leave the skin softer and smoother because of this water-trapping ability.
Bell Chem is a USP ingredient supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including glycerine. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
Understanding How Citric Acid Enhances Cleaning Products
When a consumer opens a bottle of cleaning solution and the unmistakable odor of citrus emanates from the container, the satisfied smile is twofold: the cleaner is meant to handle stubborn, baked on or caked on debris, and it smells great. Citric acid supplier Bell Chem wishes to share more information pertaining to the benefits of citric acid as an additive to cleaning products.
Clean with Green
Citric acid is a plant-based, biodegradable, non-toxic cleaner that packs a punch. Citric acid acts as a chelating agent as it attracts metals in hard water. As the metals and minerals bind to citric acid, they are no longer able to form a film on surfaces (scale) that look unsightly and impede the flow inside pipes. Citric acid then allows chemicals within the cleaner to work unimpeded by these metals; the cleaners are then able to form a heady foam and clean without the use of a water softener or another chemical that may prove harmful to consumers and the environment.
Uses for Citric Acid
Consumers can use citric acid for a variety of chores, such as removing hard water stains and mineral deposits, and descaling. Citric acid is great as an antibacterial, antiseptic cleaner. Citric acid works wonders on dehumidifiers, small kitchen appliances, toilets and tanks, and overall kitchen and bathroom cleaners.
pH Adjustment
As a mild organic acid, citric acid is able to control the pH of a product by bringing a basic pH to a normal range, or adding more acidity to a cleaner to enhance its cleaning abilities. Altering a cleaner’s pH is what gives citric acid its ability to act as an antibacterial. A lower pH weakens the cell walls and membranes of bacteria, mildew, and mold. Without a functional outer membrane, these microbes are no longer functional.
Bell Chem is a citric acid supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including citric acid. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.
How Food Manufacturers Can Formulate for Food Intolerance
Sometimes the difference between a good meal and an outstanding meal is how many guests are able to appreciate the food. With more and more patrons requesting gluten free, peanut free, additive free, or other changes in your menu, it seems more difficult than ever to create a meal where every patron is satisfied. A 2009 study estimated 18% of patrons living in industrialized countries (10% of adults and 8% of children) had a medically-diagnosed food allergy or reaction. Fortunately, food ingredient supplier Bell Chem can assist with many of your menu considerations.
Gluten free
The majority of food allergies or reactions focus on 2 sources: gluten and lactose. Creating gluten-free foods is not as simple as leaving out gluten. The function of gluten and gliadin is to maintain the shape of dough as it rises, which means their absence collapses baked goods. To counter this, manufacturers are able to add gluten-free, genetically modified wheat varieties; biotechnologically-modified gluten; substitutions such as rice, tapioca, or legumes; or dietary powders made of corn flakes, tofu, or flaxseed. Another method of replacement improves the binding qualities of additives with water or gas, including Bell Chem replacements xanthan gum, locust gum, or guar gum.
Lactose free
With a whopping 65% of the world’s adult population registering as some level of lactose intolerant, the push for lactose-free foods is imperative. From the FDA’s perspective, though, lactose intolerance’s lack of immunological response deems it unworthy of definition. In other words, lactose-free and lactose-reduced foods have no true common standards.
Removing lactose is generally performed via enzymatic hydrolysis in which the lactose content is hydrolyzed into glucose and galactose via lactase. Genetically-modified lactase is another method of rendering lactose inoperable. Mechanical methods including ultrafiltration, fermentation, and reverse osmosis also stanch lactose intolerance. Ingredient substitutions, such as Bell Chem’s oat flour which can be mixed with water to form oat milk.
Additives
The list of additives that may cause allergic reactions is extensive and includes emulsifiers, pH controllers, preservatives, and stabilizers. Switching from a known reactant, such as lactic acid to citric acid, alleviates many unfavorable symptoms. Using ethanol rather than sulphites leads to better outcomes as well.
Bell Chem is a food ingredient supplier based in Longwood, FL (just north of Orlando) with hundreds of products stocked in their 50,000+ square-foot warehouse, including many replacements for known food allergens. You can expect the highest quality products, expedited shipping options for maximum efficiency, and unrivaled personalized customer service. Let our knowledgeable and friendly customer service representatives and accounting staff personalize all your needs by either calling 407-339-BELL (2355) or by sending us an online message.