NEC's Biocore offers DPP IV blend - a 'gluten' blend

[Guest guest]

National Enzyme Company (NEC) was promoting its new Biocore line of

enzyme products. NEC is a manufacturer of enzyme products and makes

HNI and Kirkman products. Besides making custom blends that go into

products for vendors, they make and sell set blends which vendors can

buy and add in to their products. The n-zimes and CereCalaise blends

are some of these.

http://www.nationalenzyme.com/biocore/

Biocore is a new line of set blends which any supplement vendor can

get. These can be added into existing products, sold as is under the

Biocore name or under a vendors company name, or mixed and matched

like building blocks to create new products. For example, if I wanted

to create a product named 's Kids Enzymes, I could ask NEC to

add the following three component blends together into one product

and slap a label on it:

BioCor Optimum

BioCor Dairy Ultra

BioCor DPP IV

Another example is that if TwinLabs or Solaray or anyone else wants

to add DPP IV gluten/casein breaking activity to their current broad-

spectrum, they could buy the BioCor DPP IV blend from NEC and add it

in to the current formulation. If a vendor uses a BioCor blend in

their product, the label will say BioCor on it (much like the Intel

Inside logo on computer or the REAL dairy seal on products containing

real dairy).

One of their blends is a Kid's chewable enzyme:

http://www.nationalenzyme.com/biocore/Biocore_Kids_bk.php

It will be interesting to watch how the DPP IV blend works out. It

isn't evident how this compares with the Peptizyde or Peptidase

Complete (both manufactured by NEC). It may be a comparable blend, a

more diluted blend, or a stronger blend...it just isn't evident at

the moment, or how these blends will fare when incorporated into

other products. The units on the BioCore label state it has 500 DPP

IV...what are the units? The Peptidase Complete and Peptizyde both

list protease units. So the number doesn't indicate what the 500

means.

What is very positive about all this is digestive enzymes, kids

digestive health, and DPP IV blends are hitting the mainstream (okay,

the alternative medicine mainstream, LOL). This means many more

people will have access to enzymes, information, and products that

may help them improve their lives.

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[Guest guest]

>>> Very interesting. Please note, though, that their new " Kids' Blend

Biocore " is certainly not gluten-free as it contains an enzyme from

barley.

I'll ask about that. It is probably gluten-free because the enzymes are

derived and purified from the plant so there isn't any source material

left (just as all enzymes are said to be derived). And the enzyme may

not be from the gluten part of the plant...it might be from some other

part of the plant. Much like wheat grass is gluten-free and okay for

gluten-free diets because it is from the 'grass' part of the plant and

not the gluten-containing seed. But it is wise to get verification on

it anyway.

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