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All You Ever Wanted to Know About Aloe Vera, Plants and Nutrition.

Aloe vera, which has been used since recorded history began. For its health-supporting properties, literally tons of aloe gel have been consumed by citizens of just about every country in the world. Aloe's popularity today, 25 years ago, or even 4000 years ago, is proof of the plants benefits to its users.

The Aloe family includes over two hundred closely related plant species. One of them, Aloe vera has been used extensively for more than four thousand years and has sparked much interest more recently within the scientific community. The plant has leaves which can grow up to four feet in length and weigh up to five pounds each.

The aloe plant is subtropical and requires a great deal of water. Most of this water is stored in a gel-like substance, referred to as "aloe gel," within the leaves. This gel carries the numerous water-soluble nutrients and other components throughout the plant. Think of it as the blood of the human body carrying nutrients throughout.

Aloe vera is a rich source of over two hundred naturally-occurring nutritional substances. These components include twenty amino acids, eight enzymes, nine minerals, plant sterols, monosaccharides and polysaccharides, antioxidants, vitamins A, C, E, B complex, glycoproteins and other substances. Aloe vera is a virtual gold mine of health-supporting phytonutrients. Some have described the interaction of these components as similar to the synergistic workings of the instruments in an orchestra, working together for grand results.

The leaves of the aloe plant have provided many benefits for healthy tissue growth for many years. Aloe vera, either taken fresh from the leaf or in early commercial preparations, contains a latex substance called aloin, a yellow sap used for many years as a laxative.

In the past, this property of aloin became synonymous with "aloe," causing much confusion in consumer, trade and even government literature. Now high quality preparations of aloe have eliminated the aloin so that we can easily obtain the benefits of the whole leaf without the laxative effect.

Loaded with vitamins and minerals, various phytonutrients including mucopolysaccharides, enzymes, amino acids, plant sterols, anthraquinones and others, the Aloe barbadensis plant (more commonly called Aloe vera) is a virtual gold mine of phytonutrients.

The primary investigator in the study had worked with aloe several years and had previously identified and patented a potent antioxidant extracted from the plant. It is rewarding to see Aloe vera take its rightful place among leading natural products, loaded with beneficial health-supporting phytonutrients.

The Aloe family includes over two hundred closely related plant species. One of them, Aloe vera has been used extensively for more than four thousand years and has sparked much interest more recently within the scientific community. The plant has leaves which can grow up to four feet in length and weigh up to five pounds each.

This gel carries the numerous water-soluble nutrients and other components throughout the plant. Think of it as the blood of the human body carrying nutrients throughout.

Aloe vera helps support energy and overall activity levels and acts as a general tonic. Most recently, scientists are beginning to understand that Aloe vera supports healthy body collagen as well. Aloe vera has become of widespread interest to athletes, sports participants and other highly active people interested in maintaining their activity levels.