The New Zealand Patent Office has awarded Sabinsa Corporation a patent (568233) for the company's SelenoForce^®, a selenium-enriched garlic product manufactured by a soil-less culture process. The patent, titled Compositions Containing Allium Sativum Linn. Garlic) And A Concentrate Of Organic Selenium Compounds For Nutritional Supplementation, is valid until December 2026.
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Sabinsa Corporation's SelenoForce^® has been granted a European patent (EP 1968620).
SelenoForce^® is a selenium-enriched garlic product manufactured by a soil less culture process. Garlic bulbs are naturally enriched with a unique composition of organic selenium compounds for nutritional supplementation, using a proprietary hydroponics method. The selenium enriched bulbs are dried, powdered and standardized, to yield SelenoForce^® containing 1000 ppm selenium, in bioavailable organic form, in a base of natural garlic powder.
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Sabinsa has been trying to market a product by the brand name of GarliSelect^®. Sabinsa used a proprietary hydroponics technology to enrich garlic pods with selenium and reextract an array of garlic compounds and selenium amino-acids from it. Although Sabinsa tried to promote the selenium supplementation in the ingredient market, most of the customers saw it as a garlic product. Seeing that enriched garlic has a completely different connotation to the customers. Sabinsa embarked on a journey to reposition this ingredient as a selenium product. GarliSelect^® was branded as SelenoForce^®. Sabinsa has already seen customers getting interested in this concept and getting involved with the product.
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