Iranian Company Produces Food Supplements based on Herbs, Grains, Legumes

“We have been active for five years now and have eight representatives across Iran, and most provinces and cities in the country use our company's products,” Najmeh Bayat, the managing-director of the technological company stationed at the incubator center of Islamic Azad University’s Arak branch, told ANA.

“Iranian and Islamic food supplements are a type of nutritional aid for all ages, from children to adults, and the sports community can also use these supplements; because the basis of these products is herbal and those interested can use these products safely,” she added.

In a relevant development last year, a number of companies active in the field of pharmaceuticals in Iran produced and commercialized nano-based medicinal and nutritional supplements by using nanotechnology.

One of the pharmaceutical companies, active in the field of herbal medicines has produced nano-based medicinal products and supplements like 7 mg iron sachet, 7 mg iron capsule containing nanoliposomal iron and vitamin C, 7 mg iron drop, 15 mg iron drop containing nanoliposomal iron, vitamin A, vitamin D and zinc, and multivitamin syrup.

Discoloration of teeth, digestive problems and constipation are among the side effects of common iron drops in the market; therefore, the company has used a structure called liposomal iron which prevents these problems.

Also, Iranian technologists at another company active in the nanotechnology field produced zinc supplement capsule 10 mg containing zinc oxide nanoparticles encapsulated with fatty acid, vitamin C and vitamin B complex, iron supplement suspension 15 and 20 mg containing nanoliposome of iron-containing compounds, folic acid and vitamin B12, calcium supplement suspension 250mg containing nanohydroxyapatite, lecithin, magnesium, zinc and vitamin D3 and suspension containing nanoliposome of iron-containing compounds.

Medicinal supplements and iron supplements based on nanotechnology are the products manufactured by another Iranian pharmaceutical company.

The company’s experts have managed to reduce the size of particles that make up the drug to enlarge its surface area which leads to an increase in the rate of dissolution of the drug and it further increases the dissolved particles in the solution medium.

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