Glyconutrients – Glyconutritionals As Supplements

What are Glyconutritional Supplements, you ask?

A good deal of hype surrounds “glyconutritionals” these days. It is not uncommon to see the words “miracle cure” in connection with them. So let us cut to through the hype and get to the nitty-gritty. Allow me to investigate glyconutritionals, describing in real terms what they are, what their role in the body is, and what part they play in a healthy diet.

Recently, a lot of valid research has been done in the field of glyconutritionals. But to put things into the most simplest terminology, the term ‘glyconutritional’ or ‘glyconutrient’ is a scientific name for an individual carbohydrate nutrient. Commercial uses of the term will more commonly refer to particular blends of polysaccharides, dietary fiber compounds and plant extracts.

Polysaccharides are large carbohydrate molecules consisting of a number of monosaccharide monomers such as fucose, lactose and glucose. These glyconutritional formulations were initially discovered by the Research and Development Corporation out of Texas that made some neat discoveries. They have been marketed around the world by...