Supplemental Nutrition

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, dietary supplement refers to “a product taken orally that contains one or more ingredients (such as vitamins or amino acids) that are intended to supplement one’s diet and are not considered food.” That last bit is important for several reasons.

First of all, you’re supposed to get the vast majority of your nutritional needs from whole food. Supplements only supplement your dietary intake. Secondly, there’s a distinction between AIM’s dietary supplements and whole-food powders, although sometimes they get placed in the same supplement category.

When you look at the food labels of AIM products such as BarleyLife and RediBeets, you’ll see Nutrition Facts, just as you would on the packaging of other food products that show the per-serving amount of calories, carbs, fat, fiber, minerals, protein and vitamins. AIM powders are supplemental food, so you’ll also see all of the ingredients. For example, BarleyLife powder’s list of ingredients is as follows: Juice powder of young barley plants (Hordeum vulgare), brown rice oligodextrin (Oryza sativa), kelp (Laminaria digitata).

The labels of AIM’s dietary supplements contain different information, showing the “one or more ingredients” along with the amount of each ingredient per suggested serving. This is part of the distinction of being supplements that are natural health products, not food products. As examples, some of the key ingredients in AIMega and Proancynol 2000 supplement your dietary intake of essential nutrients such as omega-3 and -6 and beneficial botanicals that include green tea and rosemary extracts. Both products list additional ingredients in amounts per serving on their individual labels.

Since 1982, AIM products have been used as supplemental nutrition to improve and maintain good health. The distinction between AIM’s whole-food powders and dietary supplements is a factor in product usage when focusing on nutrition for the entire body or for targeting specific aspects of health. In the end, AIM’s whole-food powders and dietary supplements all add up to nutrition that works.