* Food Enzymes aid digestion and increase nutritional value at a cellular level.

* Pro-biotics, or, 'good bacteria' and 'friendly flora' bring a healthy balance to the gastro-intestinal tract.

* Macro-minerals provide the building blocks for healthy bones, muscles, tendons and teeth.

* 77 Trace Minerals provide the electrical charge needed by each cell to thrive and communicate with each other.

* Vitamins provide targeted chemical structures that are needed for the evolving, human body to process nutrients.

* Extra Natural Vitamin C will naturally support the body's immune response.

* Extra Natural Vitamin E is one of nature's most potent anti-oxidants and beauty aids.

* Our Blend of 44 super foods provide a 'whole food'element for enhanced bio-availability. Taking this product with every meal will serve as a green vegetable exchange.

Quint-Essence is a completely unique blend of the highest quality and potency 'plant-derived' ingredients, found together in a whole-food supplement. Intending to create a new health standard with our products, Universal Formulas Quint-Essence is extremely effective in providing a daily nutritional foundation that is simplified, consistent and balanced supplementation. A super-simple nutritional protocol specifically formulated by Andrew Bruex, owner of Universal Formulas, for people on the go , like himself.

Quint-Essence is highly bio-available and efficiently assimilated into the cells due to the addition of our proprietary Tracite Delivery System (TDS), which has an extremely high fulvic acid molecular content and characteristics. Tracite is added to many of Universal Formulas products for the purpose of providing superior assimilation of the many nutrients being offered.

Quint-Essence is one in a series of Opti-Blends. The Opti-Blends concept provides engineered combinations of nutrients that address specific health goals. These products are packaged in a way to provide a simple and convenient delivery of nutrients at their optimal ratio. Our uniquely designed blends reduce the need to take numerous different supplements to achieve outstanding results. With our exclusive use of natural ingredients, these blends offer a more consistent and cost effective approach to supplementation.

We add a combination of 77 fulvic trace minerals, mineral compounds and mineral elements, as well as a blend of 'plant derived' enzymes to our products. This combination of natural vegetarian (vegan) fulvic minerals and enzymatic compounds provide the greatest bio-availability of supplemental ingredients known today.

The added enzyme activity in our formulations ensures that nutrients are properly digested. And the fulvic minerals, which carry 60 times their molecular weight in nutrients directly to cells, are the transport agents of our supplements. This combination is the 'one-two punch' that sets our products above and apart from all others.

Discussion: Traditional Chinese and Western herbs combined to support the kidneys. This formula is designed to strengthen and balance the kidney energy- it is not a diuretic.

Vitamin E

Discussion: The vitamin E that we provide our customers is a 100% natural form that is extracted (cold process) from soybeans. It contains the d-alpha tocopherols, d-beta, d-gamma and d-delta forms that occur naturally in soybeans. These are true natural forms of vitamin E. Vitamin E acetate or dl-alpha- tocopherols are synthetic forms. There are natural forms that contain only the d-alpha form of Vitamin E. The mixed tocopherols are more of a whole food vitamin E containing more of the natural forms present in nature. Our cold extraction process leaves all other naturally occurring constituents in tact including any naturally occurring enzymes.

The manufacturing practices used in the production, extraction and packaging of our vitamin E are among the best in the industry. Our vitamin E has a 25-year track record of producing excellent results for our customers. The only way to get a more natural form of vitamin E is to eat raw wheat germ or some other raw food containing rich quantities of vitamin E.

Further discussion: Vitamin E is a major antioxidant and the primary defense against lipid peroxidation. It helps protect cells from free radical/oxidative damage. These protective benefits are achievable with supplemental intakes higher than what is normally consumed in the average diet.

Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) is an anti-oxidant that is important in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and several types of cancer. Only a small amount of vitamin E is needed to meet normal daily requirements. However, research has shown that using vitamin E at far higher doses than the daily requirement has provided preliminary evidence that it may be helpful for preventing or treating various medical conditions. These uses include treating cardiac autonomic neuropathy (a complication of diabetes), low sperm count, restless leg syndrome, and inflammation of eye tissues, Parkinson's and rheumatoid arthritis. Vitamin E also may improve seniors' immune response. It promotes normal blood clotting and healing, aids in preventing cataracts, improves athletic performance and assists in maintaining cell integrity. It is known to improve circulation and is useful in treating fibrocystic disease of the breast as well as the cramps associated with premenstrual syndrome. Studies suggest that this vitamin may slow the progression of Alzheimer�s disease. Thus far, vitamin E has been shown to protect against approximately eighty diseases.

Natural vs. Synthetic:

Natural vitamin E contains a family of eight different but related molecules that fall into two major groups: the tocopherols and the tocotrienols. Within each group there are alpha, beta, gamma and delta forms but it is the d-alpha-tocopherol that is the most potent. We use the term "mixed " tocopherols when referring to these different types. Synthetic vitamin E (sometimes referred to as dl-alpha-tocopherol) contains both active and inactive forms of alpha-tocopherol and is not used in our Vitamin E.