The TERRANOVA Difference: No fillers, binders or additives

Supplements work only because of the active ingredients in them. So, why are many supplements on the market loaded with inactive ones?

TERRANOVA is one of the few nutritional supplement companies today to avoid inactive manufacturing additives in their manufacturing process.

Their aim has always been to create a new and brighter future for food supplements. They have never compromised on product quality, purity, integrity or transparency.

What are inactive additives?

Excipients in supplements are inactive substances used as carriers or binders to facilitate the delivery and absorption of the active ingredients.

Fillers, binders, anti-caking agents, lubricants, disintegrants, coating agents, sweeteners, colouring and flavouring agents are all examples of common inactive additives, and the list goes on.

Why are such additives (excipients) commonplace?

Additives like binders ensure ingredients bind together properly during the compression stage of tablet production.

All TERRANOVA products are in two-piece vegetarian capsules, powder or liquid form. The use of additives isn’t necessary in two-piece capsules.

Despite this, many encapsulated nutritional supplement brands still use additives because they make supplements easier, faster, cheaper and more profitable to manufacture.

Why don’t TERRANOVA use inactive additives?

Inactive additives are at odds with TERRANOVA’s product integrity and purity standards.

TERRANOVA believe that avoiding additives maximises the profound, synergistic impact of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and enzymes, ensuring their benefits are felt intensely and purely, without physiological or biochemical disruption.

Their decision to avoid inactive manufacturing additives underlines their commitment to putting product quality, purity and integrity before maximising cost savings and manufacturing convenience.

What to look out for when choosing your supplements

Check the label

Always check the label, just like you would with food, to see if a supplement contains inactive additives such as fillers, binders, flowing agents, colours, flavours or sweeteners.

Magnesium stearate is one of the most common excipients used in supplements as a flowing agent to prevent ingredients in a capsule from sticking together.

Some excipients help increase the speed, efficiency and profitability of the manufacturing process, while others are used as fillers, to bind together ingredients in a tablet, or even to improve the taste or appearance of a product.

TERRANOVA products prove that excipients aren’t necessary, even in highly complex formulations. They have always been 100% additive-free from the beginning.

Choose synergistically-enhanced supplements

Look for supplements that support the bioavailability, utilisation and function of the nutrients in them.

No nutrients work independently within your body. They all rely on synergistic interactions with other compounds. They also rely on your body to provide a sufficiently synergistic environment to maximise their bioavailability, activity and overall effectiveness.

Unfortunately, your body’s synergistic environment can be compromised by many factors, from genetics to stress or digestive deficiencies.

What is MAGNIFOOD?

TERRANOVA developed MAGNIFOOD to overcome some of the challenges faced by your body’s synergistic environment.

It is a synergistic complex of botanicals and phytonutrient-rich foods. MAGNIFOOD ingredients combine to enhance your body’s biochemical environment and maximise the potential benefits of a product’s vitamins, minerals and nutrients.

MAGNIFOOD supports the bioavailability, activity, stability, utilisation and function of the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.

Choose supplements with raw, pure, enzymatically-active botanicals and whole food

The processing of a plant ingredient significantly influences its biochemical balance, overall activity, and therapeutic impact. The drying method and the potential adulteration with solvents are critical factors that can markedly alter these properties.

The standard commercial methods used to dry plant materials (air, oven and spray drying) can degrade important compounds and alter a plant’s delicate biochemical balance.

Solvent extraction, one of the most common ways to process commercial botanicals, can severely alter plant chemistry. It can increase the activity of certain compounds whilst denaturing or removing other compounds crucial to the plant’s overall properties.

What is the fresh-freeze-dried advantage?

TERRANOVA products prominently feature the use of fresh-freeze-dried (lyophilised) botanicals.

Research shows that freeze-drying is the most effective way to protect and retain the biochemical integrity of a fresh plant – even the highly sensitive enzymes. A fresh-freeze-dried plant resembles the biochemical profile of the original plant very closely but in a highly concentrated form due to the highly efficient removal of moisture.

Due to their powerful synergistic impact in MAGNIFOOD, fresh-freeze-dried plants have always profoundly enhanced the effect of TERRANOVA’s products. Their remarkable properties feature prominently in TERRANOVA’s fresh-freeze-dried super-blend powders, single botanicals and their intense super-shakes.

Vegan-friendly supplements

You don’t necessarily need to be vegan to prefer vegan-friendly products, just as you don’t have to be sensitive to additives to prefer additive-free products.

More and more people are choosing vegan-friendly products wherever possible, whether for health, ethical, religious or environmental reasons or perhaps even due to a sensitivity to certain animal-derived products such as dairy or egg.

Shop the TERRANOVA range with confidence, knowing that the entire range is 100% vegan-friendly.