Wax Maize

What is a carbohydrate?

Carbohydrates, or saccharides, are organic compounds that have many hydroxyl groups. Carbohydrates are the most abundant of the four major classes of biomolecules. Many people think of carbohydrates as just energy but they also play numerous roles in all living things, such as the storage and transportation of energy and structural components. Besides these functions carbohydrates also play a major role in the working process of the immune system, fertilization, pathogenesis, blood clotting, and development.

A carbohydrate in simplified terms is basically the energy component of the diet: a biological compound containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen that is an important source of food and energy. Carbohydrates come in two forms, simple and complex.

Simple carbohydrates, more commonly known as simple sugars, come from sucrose, dextrose, fructose, fresh fruit and milk. These are just a few examples.

Complex carbohydrates, more commonly known as starches, can be found in such foods as grain products, bread, potatoes, pasta and rice.

Do Athletes need carbohydrates?

Carbohydrates are the cornerstone of an athlete’s diet. Have you ever experienced “hitting the wall” while training? One moment you are running comfortably and the next minute you can hardly walk. This is an athletes worst nightmare! When your body runs out of its carbohydrate or fuel supply, it goes into what I like to call survival mode. This survival mode greatly disables athletic performance.

Carbohydrates are essential fuel for every cell in the human body. According to most sports nutritionists the majority of athletes diets should consist of 70-80% carbohydrates. For an athlete eating 5000 calories per day that equates to about 1000 grams of carbohydrates.

So we can easily say that carbohydrates are one of the most important nutrients to athletic performance. Carbohydrates also plays the major role in supplying your brain and body with power. The human body can not supply enough carbohydrates on its own, thus making it essential to take in enough from foods. Working out with low levels of carbohydrates leads to fatigue. Fatigue is the enemy to an energetic body and a great workout or training session.

Athletes who follow a high-carbohydrate diet can maintain high-intensity exercise for a longer period than those on a lower-carbohydrate diet.

Low carbohydrate diets are extremely counterproductive to athletes not only to their performance on any given day but also their recovery rates and future training sessions as well as the continual speed of progress over time. Attempting to attain energy from protein or dietary fat forces the body to operate inefficiently.

How the body uses carbohydrates:

When you eat carbohydrates, the body breaks them down into simple sugars. These simple sugars can then be absorbed into the blood stream. As the sugar level rises in your body, the pancreas releases a hormone called insulin. Insulin is needed to move sugar from the blood into the cells. The cells are where the sugar can be used as a source of energy.

What is Waxy Maize ?

Waxy Maize is a homopolysaccharide (relatively complex carbohydrate). Waxy Maize is made up of many monosaccharides joined together by glycosidic bonds. These are specific bonds that link the molecules within the branched macromolecules. The “molecular mass” has been precisely optimised to create absorption through the stomach at a rate much greater than maltodextrins, dextrose, breads, pasta, rice or any other carbohydrate product on the market.

Waxy Maize is a patents pending carbohydrate that contains very unique properties. Because Waxy Maize passes through the stomach very quickly, it acts like a pump, pulling water and nutrients along with it. This high tech carbohydrate actually moves through the stomach 80% faster than dextrose or sugar. Waxy Maize also has a higher solution osmolarity than dextrose, sucrose or other carbohydrate powder mixes on the market. This is due to the unique properties found in the patent pending process. Waxy Maize is completely sugar free.

Waxy Maize is produced using a newly developed “Enzymatic Milling Process”. The food sources used to produce the Waxy Maize are corn, potato and rice. The finished product is a modified molecular mass polysaccharide that mixes instantly and is absorbed very quickly with out any side effects, stomach bloating or discomfort.

What is Waxy Maize used for?

This product was invented for the sole purpose of carbohydrate loading. It was designed for Elite Athletes looking for a fast, easy, convenient, safe and high performance way to load the muscle with accessible muscle energy (glycogen).

Is it better than just eating pasta or rice?

In the past athletes have attempted to attain the needed energy reserves from eating large spaghetti meals before an event. It is important for athletes to consume large amounts of complex carbohydrates but we haven’t discussed how long it takes for your body to be able to use these for fuel. Breads and starchy foods like pasta can take up to 24 hours to be digested and for the body to be able to fully load the final desired enzyme converted glycogen into the muscle cells! This makes them practically ineffective to eat as a source for energy loading before a workout, training, sporting event or big game. Waxy Maize is a very dense or concentrated form of carbohydrates. Gram for gram the energy concentration is far greater in terms of energy output. Waxy Maize is also absorbed rapidly and results in semi-loading the muscles with vital glycogen within the first hour and the muscles become fully loaded with the glycogen in less than two hours ready to yield an super–extended stream of dynamic energy! In terms of the energy capable of being yielded, you physically could not eat the any where near the quantities of common starch based carbohydrates – you would feel sick and bloated in your stomach just trying. That makes Waxy Maize a far superior carbohydrate to conventional carbohydrate meals and carbohydrate powders.

As a Raw Material:

Waxy Maize has been manufactured to enable instant mixing as well as “best rate” optimal absorption. We refer to it as being “Ultravised^TM” -the Ultimate Carbohydrate. Waxy Maize is completely unique due to its size and structure of the molecule. Not too large and not too small, but precisely the right size to achieve the optimal rate of absorption and metabolism. In this way all the energy contained within the molecule is gradually released, somewhat of a reservoir of energy circulating in the blood stream – ready to be delivered when and where it is needed. for maximum absorption and optimum use by the body over a prolonged period. Waxy Maize can be mixed into any formula as a replacement for slower absorbing carbohydrates and sugars or can be flavored and used as a standalone product. Waxy Maize is great for meal replacements, weight gains, energy drinks or anywhere a high end, faster absorbing carbohydrate is needed.

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