Why does Performance Lab® opt for plant-based ingredients and delivery forms?Updated 7 months ago
Performance Lab's® plant-based focus advances our mission of producing the cleanest, purest and safest nutritional supplements on the planet.
Plant-based Performance Lab® supplements are also more accessible and easier to tolerate for everyone - whether you are vegetarian, vegan, or simply following a clean lifestyle.
If you are striving to use clean-label products, be aware: Other supplement brands may be loaded with synthetics and/or animal-sourced ingredients.
Even more unscrupulous, some supplement brands may go to great lengths to appear like they are clean, plant-based and vegan-friendly - when closer label scrutiny reveals they are anything but.
Performance Lab®'s plant-based emphasis, on the other hand, runs deeper. We are the only brand to carry a plant-based focus throughout every detail of every supplement in our line.
Some examples of how Performance Lab®'s plant-based focus outperforms other brands:
Lesser Brands' Animal and Synthetic Ingredients and Delivery Forms | Performance Lab® Plant-Based Ingredients and Delivery Forms |
|---|---|
Animal-sourced gelatin capsules, as well as “Cellulose” capsules that appear natural and plant-based, but are actually made of semi-synthetic polymer | Clean, vegan-friendly NutriCaps®, 100% plant-based capsules made from fermented tapioca (Cassava tuber) |
| “Pharmaceutical glaze” made from insects (waxy discharge from Kerria lacca beetle) | Prebiotic NutriCaps® are naturally easy to swallow and require no glaze |
| Capsules loaded with synthetic fillers, flow agents and other artificial additives | Often zero fillers; when required, plant-based Nu-FLOW® Rice Concentrate only, the world's cleanest flow agent |
| Use artificial flavors and artificial sweeteners to attempt and mask their products' bad taste (which often makes them taste even worse) | 100% natural plant-based flavors only, in SPORT Protein and SPORT Carb: Organic cocoa, vanilla, Ceylon cinnamon; Naturally sweetened with organic yacon root, monk fruit and stevia |
| Joint supplements may use glucosamine and chondroitin from shellfish, pork byproducts, shark cartilage and bovine connective tissue | Flex uses ultramodern plant-based forms instead: Corn-sourced glucosamine and Phytodroitin™, one of the only vegan chondroitin alternatives. |
| Synthetic vitamin and mineral forms or “dirty” natural vitamins and minerals sourced via eco-destructive practices | Best of both worlds: Lab-grown fermented NutriGenesis® vitamins and minerals: Nature-identical, clean and eco-friendly |
| Sports nutrition protein powders: Animal sourced proteins from milk, muscle tissues and connective tissues | SPORT Protein Oryzatein® rice protein, the only plant-based protein shown to nourish muscle as effectively as animal-sourced whey protein |
| Omega-3 fatty acids from fish: Contributes to global stock depletion, requires extensive processing and doesn't work with vegan lifestyles | Skip the middle man - fish - and go directly to omega-3s' original source: Algae. The largest biomass in the world, algae is clean, sustainable, plant-based and eco-friendly. |
| Sleep supplements: Synthetic melatonin megadoses that may be associated with morning grogginess | Sleep: Natural minimum-effective-dose melatonin from Montmorency Tart Cherry plus tryptophan to encourage endogenous melatonin production |
True to our mission, Performance Lab® doesn't seek out just any plant-based forms - we curate today's greatest ultramodern plant-based ingredients and delivery forms, including nutritional technology innovations that are cleaner, more potent and more effective than anything ever developed.