According to McKinsey & Company’s latest “Future of Healthcare ” survey, 62% of consumers prioritize health, highlighting the rising interest in sports nutrition as a new growth area in the health sector.
ZymeBase leverages its innovative green biotechnology to develop a premium functional ingredient for sports nutrition: SusCarb™ Dextrin (Highly Branched Cyclic Dextrin). As a premium carbohydrate, SusCarb™ enhances exercise performance and provides fast and sustained energy.
1. Introduction to SusCarb™ Dextrin
ZymeBase’s SusCarb™ HBCD delivers fast and sustained energy, addressing common issues like energy deficiency and slow recovery during exercise. High-quality carbohydrates are essential for optimal body function, especially during physical activity.
Consuming these carbohydrates before exercise ensures that glycogen stores in muscles and blood sugar levels are adequate, preventing symptoms of hypoglycemia such as dizziness and fatigue. They effectively supply energy, delay fatigue, and enhance endurance during exercise. After exercise, they help replenish glycogen storage and work synergistically with body hormones to promote the entry of amino acids into muscle cells, accelerating muscle repair and growth.
In summary, high-quality carbohydrates are crucial before, during, and after exercise, supporting performance, recovery, and muscle growth. SusCarb™ Dextrin meets the demand for superior carbohydrate supplementation, offering athletes and fitness enthusiasts a quick and continuous energy source to support muscle building and conditioning.
2. Product Advantages
1) Reduced blood glucose and insulin spikes
SusCarb™ Dextrin effectively reduces blood glucose fluctuations compared to maltodextrin and glucose, providing a gentler impact on insulin levels. Its higher proportion of α-1,6 glycosidic bonds prolongs the digestion of SusCarb™, resulting in a sustained release of glucose and a continuous energy supply.
2) Enhanced Exercise Performance
According to our experiments, SusCarb™ demonstrates significant advantages:
- Increased Exercise Performance and Endurance: Subjects showed a 137% improvement in exercise performance compared to the glucose group and a 42% improvement over the maltodextrin group.*
- Accelerated removal of free radicals
- Lower osmolarity, faster absorption
*Conclusions drawn from experimental data are objective and do not represent final claims about product efficacy
3) Greater flexibility in formulation
The body absorbs nutrients from solutions most efficiently in an iso-osmotic state. SusCarb™ boasts a lower osmolarity—1/30th that of glucose at the same concentration—allowing for rapid nutrient absorption. This feature provides greater formulation advantages, enabling combinations with electrolytes, vitamins, and other nutrients in sports beverages to replenish water, electrolytes, and energy efficiently.
Applications
SusCarb® is a versatile ingredient
Beverages
Powder
Energy Gel
Satchets
Liquids
