A MAK-Honest Review of Vegan Essential Aminos

Supplement type: Amino Acids (BCAAs)

If you’re a hard training vegan that is struggling to find the right amino acids that are made ethically with transparency, then Vegan Essential Aminos are for you!

Inspired by vegan requirements, the vegan code of ethics and environmental ideals, ATP has found a solution that everyone can all use and benefit from.

The amino acids in Vegan Essential Aminos are exactly the same, the only difference being the starting material and other steps that vary between vegan aminos and non-vegan aminos.

      Key Features

      • Vegan-Friendly
      • No Feathers
      • No Pig Skin
      • No Blood
      • Synthesized or Fermented from Plants

        Available Flavours

        • Kakadu Plum
        • Kola
        • Raspberry

        Suggested Use

        Mix one scoop in 300 ml of cold water. Use once of twice daily between meals. May be used before, after or during exercise.

        Recommended Serving size: 1 - 2 scoop per day between meals.

        How are aminos made?

        They don’t extract aminos from plants. It is too expensive and too low yield with too much burden on the environment and potential GMO infiltration. Instead, Vegan Essential Aminos are made through fermentation of sugars from plants; the sugars are NON-GMO and the microbes involved are also non-GMO. This is how our intestinal microbiome makes amino acids for us and them in our normal digestive process. So that is actually common sense and nice and clean with very low environmental impact.

        This project has taken us over a year to complete because finding Vegan Essential Aminos from a vegan source was extremely difficult. Many amino acids are simply not available in vegan form. We started asking what they actually are whilst also demanding the flow charts and declarations of starting material; and it is kind of really gross and horrible and not something we wanted to put our name to. They are sometimes extracted from animal products as they can get a much higher yield from a very cheap starting material that doesn’t rot easily. Unlike the vegan starting material being plants.

        The non-vegan aminos are made from things like duck feathers, animal blood or animal skin, in some cases the starting material may be any combination of these three but you may never know which one. As we found out from our raw material suppliers, it is simply potluck as to which sourced material they happen to have in stock at the time. Most manufacturers and supplement companies don’t even consider this when they make their amino products as the product is based on average costings, not starting materials.

        To make things even harder, when we did finally find a non-animal source of amino acid we then discovered it was made from the fermentation of sugar by bugs but GMO sources of everything; GMO corn or wheat sugar fermented by GMO mould to excrete an amino acid. ATP Science does NOT do GMO.

        So, getting NON-GMO Vegan Essential Aminos was the goal to provide a solution to the vegan problem. However, regardless of your omnivore/herbivore status, these aminos we have sourced for our Vegan Essential Aminos are the nicest, cleanest and most transparent ones on the market.

        Amino Acid Requirements for Vegans

        Everyone, yes all humans require the 9 essential amino acids. These are histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine.

        We cannot convert or synthesize these on our own, they must come from our diet.

        Vegans are rarely deficient in total dietary protein. Animal meat protein foods yield on average 20-30% protein; where the plant sources are about 10-30% protein so not a huge difference in total protein content.

        But the amino acid profile can be very different.

        Exclusively plant-based diets supply a different amino acid profile to those who consume animal protein (meat and dairy) as well. In the plant proteins there is less of the anabolic amino acids such as leucine (which makes up 50% of what we call BCAA (branched chain amino acids), the dietary vegan sources of hydroxyproline are almost impossible to find and eat, lack of methionine, inadequate lysine and histidine for anyone doing any extra exercise.

        Quick Answers to Common Questions

        Is Vegan Essential Aminos safe to take? Ie. Are there any illegal/frowned upon/unsafe ingredients?

        Vegan Essential Aminos is 100% safe and ethically sourced, and vegan friendly

        Is Vegan Essential Aminos a meal replacement supplement?
        No. Please no! This product has been developed to support those living a vegan lifestyle as an added benefit to use in conjunction with a healthy diet.

        In short, what're the common uses for Vegan Essential Aminos?

        Vegan Essential Aminos is used to increase the number of essential amino acids in the body to support healthy nutrition within the body. 

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