You already knew that Symprove is lactose-free, unusual for a probiotic, and that it contains no artificial colours, flavours or sweeteners, now we are delighted to be able to confirm that Symprove is also gluten-free. Continue reading
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Symprove is gluten free
Happy New Year! – No VAT increase at Symprove Ltd.
With the current recession continuing to affect many people across Britain, we are pleased to let you know that Symprove Ltd. has decided to absorb the VAT increase and maintain our current prices. Continue reading
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How probiotics work #3 Inhibition of pathogenic bacteria
Probiotics deliver benefit in a variety of different ways some of which are better understood than others. Competitive exclusion has already been covered elsewhere on this blog and is the process whereby ‘good’ bacteria crowd out the ‘bad’ or pathogenic bacteria through sheer weight of numbers. Also previously mentioned is the complicated process of immunomodulation whereby some probiotic bacteria interact with the human immune system to reduce inflammation and so improve the symptoms of certain digestive conditions. Continue reading
How probiotics work #1 Competitive exclusion
Probiotics are live bacteria which exert their positive influence in a variety of ways. Laboratories all around the world are researching how probiotics interact with humans, and gradually scientists are building up a picture of which bacteria are the most effective in particular situations and how to get the best from them. Continue reading
Which probiotic bacteria work best?
For a bacterium to be called ‘probiotic’ it must be alive and deliver benefit to the host species, this is a definition set down by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Any bacteria which do not deliver benefit are not probiotic, similarly it is wrong to refer to freeze-dried, deactived bacteria as probiotic. They only become probiotic if they return to life and begin to divide and confer benefit.
An alternative question to the one in the title would be to ask ‘which strains of probiotic bacteria confer most benefit to the host?’ Continue reading
Why is Symprove so different?
This is the most frequent question we are asked when someone comes across Symprove for the first time, and there are several answers but the most important difference is this:
The 4 different types of probiotic in Symprove are alive and activated at the moment you swallow them. This is important because the whole point of probiotics is that once swallowed they should quickly start to divide and multiply creating a new, healthy population of bacteria in your bowel. Continue reading
What is 'good' research into probiotics?
This is an important question with a very different answer depending on whether you are a person using a probiotic, a company making a probiotic or a scientist investigating one. The amount of published research about probiotics has increased ten-fold in the past decade. This has been driven largely by two factors; doctors and academics who see probiotics as a possible solution to various digestive disorders and want to understand more about them, and the functional food or so-called ‘nutraceutical’ industry which wants to support the value of its products.
Will Symprove be available in other flavours?
We are sometimes asked whether we are going to launch flavoured versions of Symprove, the short answer is ‘perhaps’. The reason we can’t be more helpful is that it’s very difficult to find a flavour which will not upset the delicate balance of ingredients in Symprove. Artificial flavours and colours are definitely not an option, from the outset we have strived to create a product which is as natural as possible and have avoided any unnecessary or artificial additives. Continue reading
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Probiotics, shelf life and storage
In their most natural, effective condition probiotics are alive and actively dividing; this is one of the special features of Symprove; that the four types of probiotic in our product are alive and ready to get to work from the moment you swallow the drink. Until Symprove came along the only way to achieve this was to use milk or yoghurt as the base for a probiotic product. Continue reading
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12 months on
Our first anniversary fell in September and we took the opportunity at the weekend to gather all involved with Symprove for a day of review and an evening of celebration at Symprove HQ.
You might not know this, but we didn’t intend to introduce our probiotic onto the UK market until 2011; whilst the technology was all in place and the product fully developed our plan was to wait for the results of the independent evaluations taking place at King’s College Hospital. Our thinking was that in a busy and sometimes confused market, another probiotic product from a small company would struggle to be noticed unless it had some strong independent data behind it. Based on our own research with the product we saw very early on that Symprove is a brand which speaks for itself rather than one dependent upon heavy marketing for success; although of course we do want to shout from the rooftops about it! Continue reading