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為什麼要採用膠囊?

BCAA您怎麼吃?直接食用或沖泡?

運動達人RacingPro當初委請李福祥教練進行BCAA產品的測試時,我們發現:受測的選手反應是兩極的!

當時測試的樣品,是來自日本的 A牌與G牌,兩者都是採粉劑的劑型。而進一步了解後 , 發現受測選手在整包吞服下去再喝水的通通表示有感受到效果。而選擇加到水壺裡,在整個訓練流程中慢慢喝的使用者,都表示沒有感到太大的效果。在這裡反應了一個事實:也就是人體對BCAA支鏈胺基酸,是有最低劑量的需求 。至於最低需求量,其實是眾說紛云。但我們測試的結果是,只要身體維持有1000mg以上的劑量時,就是有效的。

獨特的味道與特性

BCAA支鏈胺基酸有幾個特性:

  1. 一個是不太容易溶於水
  2. 一個是它的口感相當苦澀
  3. 再來就是在味覺上,特殊的氣味普遍認為難以讓使用者接受(也有人覺得類似餿水的味道)。

因此在研發BCAA支鏈胺基酸補給品時,根據不同的劑型選擇,各有其優缺點。

如果是採粉劑沖泡式,因為要克服BCAA的苦澀感、難以讓人接受的味道,與不易溶於水的特性,一般是添加調味料與香料加以克服。要能夠掩蓋BCAA原有味道並調味時,其劑量一般會添加至高達total重量的60%以上。假設一包沖泡式是10g來說,那麼BCAA含量一般是不會超過4成。也就是最多就是4g,但一般是會比4g更低。所以不要被包裝上的數字譬如說8000或9600給混淆了。

若是採用錠劑形式,則問題又來了。因為錠劑的製造必須使用大量的binder才能造粒(錠),也就是俗稱的賦型劑。使用賦型劑如果劑量高了,就會延緩錠粒在腸胃的崩解速度,也就是消化的時間會拉長,針對選手須快速補充吸收BCAA時,錠劑顯然是緩不濟急。而且使用了binder賦型劑後,一樣會產生BCAA劑量被排擠的問題出現。

採用膠囊包覆的方式,由於沒有口味及溶解度的問題,使用者只需要依照生產廠商的指示:如運動達人RacingPro的建議是一次補充4顆,使用者即可獲得身體所需的最低劑量,因此BCAA支鏈胺基酸使用膠囊形式,是我們認為最適合提供給使用者的劑型。

仍需注意的地方

膠囊雖然是最理想的BCAA劑型,但是先天上包裝也有其弱點,那就是非常容易受潮。

為了克服這個問題,運動達人RacingPro使用排錠包裝方式,選手可視實際需要,折下要使用的數量帶在身上。

市面上也有以鋁箔袋包裝的方式,但鋁箔袋如果撕開後沒馬上吃完,同樣很容易就出現潮解等問題,故採用膠囊+排錠包裝,是運動達人認為最理想的包裝方式。


Six years ago, when we commissioned coach F. S. Lee to do BCAA product testing , we foundthat the reaction of the tested racers are quite different and interesting. The test samples are from Japan both are quite famous which are A brand and G brand. Both are packed in powder formulations. After test we further found subjects who swallowed whole pack and then drink water are confirmed that BCAA is effectively to their work out. For those tested racers who put powdered BCAA to the bottle and drink in the entire training process reports no valid. Here reflects the fact, that human body do need a minimum doses of BCAA requirements . This minimum demand, in fact, divergent. However, our test results shown as long as the body maintain 1000mg doses or above is valid.

BCAA in addition that you need to know, there are several features, one is not easy to dissolve in water, a very bitter taste , again it is relatively hard to accept the smell(feel like rancid taste of water) .
So if it is taken powder brewing style , because to overcome the bitterness of BCAA, and the taste is not very easy to accept , and readily soluble in water characteristics . Generally add seasonings and spices are the solutions. Adding seasonings to taste masking , the dosegenerally be as high as more than 60% by weight of the total , assuming a packet type is 10g for brewing , the BCAA content is generally not more than 40% , that is, is up to 4g. But in normal cases is generally lower than 4g, so do not be fool by the numbers printed on the pack such as 8000 or 9600.

If you are using tablets , the problem again , because the manufacture tablets must use a lot of binder to granulation (ingots) , also known as excipients ,excipient used in higher doses , it will delay the ingot grain rate of disintegration in the stomach , which is the digest will take longer for the player to be quickly absorbed BCAA, lozenges obviously slow for emergency , and the use of a binder excipient after the same dose will produce BCAA problems were excluded .

Using capsules, because there is no taste and solubility problems. So just follow the manufacturer’s instructions in our RacingPro’s case take 4 capsules the players can get the lowest dose needed by the body , so BCAA capsules formulations using , is the most perfect forms too .

Although it is the best BCAA capsule dosage form , but there are inherent weaknesses in packaging , that is, it is very easy to damp, in order to overcome this problem, use row ingot packaging, is the best choice , the players folded down to actual needs to be used. There is one brand using foil bagged package with 4 capsules. But aluminum foil bags if you are not immediately eating capsules after you tear the bag it’s easily deliquescence. Rankedingot packaging is the ideal packaging.