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Valensa International

The source of things to come

For thousands of years, humanity has recognized the importance of botanical extracts as a source of health and well-being. These ingredients and their extracts were the first medicines of mankind and the knowledge of them passed from generation to generation as an essential part of culture across every society.

A dynamic market – younger than the PC

In the last 50 years, the modern botanicals industry has taken shape as medical science and modern manufacturing methodologies have been brought to bear on improving upon folk traditions. In the late 1980s, the term ‘nutraceutical’ was introduced to convey the degree to which these extracts offered health-improvement to consumers and to reflect the efforts that were underway to continually improve the science, quality and delivery associated with these compounds.

Today, the global market for nutraceutical ingredients stands at over $XXX, with substantial growth potential in every region of the world. These ingredients are expanding beyond their traditional role as dietary supplements, to become an integral part of the rapidly growing functional foods market as traditional manufacturers of foods begin to understand the demand for natural approaches to health and well-being. Today, the growth of the natural and organic foods market far outpaces that of conventional foods, and promises to do so in the decades to come.

Valensa: delivering the ideas and the products

Valensa International, LLC is an organization dedicated to the use of superior science to deliver ingredients that can meet the burgeoning consumer demand for efficacious, high quality natural botanical extracts. Realizing that consumer confidence is critical to the sustained growth of our industry, we are committed to building trust through good science and high quality. Ultimately, it will be our ability to deliver wellness to the consumer that will define our success – and this will require creativity, scientific rigor, the right mix of technology and commercial acumen.

At Valensa, we apply our creativity by reviewing current health trends, scientific literature and the panoply of botanical sources that are available to us to develop new concepts for supplements and functional foods.

In developing our technology, we have emphasized three critical areas:

Extraction

Our DeepExtract™ ultrahigh pressure super critical carbon dioxide extraction technology yields more of the micronutrients contained in natural botanical-sourced materials.

Stability

Our extensive work on the effects of degradation of natural oils and our O2B™ Peroxidation Blocker System position us as leaders in the industry on the subjects of efficacy and shelf-life

Delivery systems

In many instances, efficacy is tied to delivery. Valensa has developed innovative delivery systems, such as the use of nanotechnology in our Nanocosanol policosanol dispersion.

In the commercial arena, Valensa tracks the trends both in science and at the consumer level. We have developed innovative ingredients that take both into account.