For more than 10 years, we’ve proudly offered Longvida Optimized Curcumin^®, our patented Curcuma longa extract, to the global marketplace. While curcumin has traditionally been associated with significant bioavailability issues, Longvida^® was specifically designed by university neuroscientists to offer a solution to deliver efficacious levels of free curcumin to the blood stream and target tissues. Throughout Longvida’s decade-long history, more than thirty human clinical trials have been published in support of the delivery of free curcumin.

While the curcumin trend has seen exponential growth over the past few years, Longvida^® was developed and optimized over the past decade, supported by an extensive research portfolio. This enables us to provide the tools, substantiation, and reliability to our finished product formulators, marketers, and manufacturers so that they can translate a trustworthy curcumin solution to their final consumers.

 

How Longvida^® Started

When posed the ever-consistent questions about Verdure’s branded ingredient solutions, the most frequent is often: What is Longvida^®? There is a lot to say in thanks to the tremendous efforts from farmers to researchers, and each person involved in bringing Longvida^® from root to extract for our customers in the plant-based ingredient industry.

 

 

Simply put, Longvida Optimized Curcumin^® is our patented and proprietary curcumin extract optimized to deliver free curcumin and support sustained health benefits. From the farm to standardized extract, each part of the process is met with strict quality assurance and control parameters with traceability and sustainability measures held in high esteem to ensure a consistent ingredient with clinical backing for the global market.

 

How Was Longvida^® Developed

Longvida Optimized Curcumin^® was designed by university neuroscientists to survive initial hydrolysis and deliver free curcumin and metabolites to the brain and throughout the body via the lymphatic system. Extensively studied by independent researchers globally, Longvida Optimized Curcumin^® may cross the blood brain barrier, offering efficacious free curcumin at easily managed daily doses. Through numerous studies and ongoing developments, the technology behind Longvida^® is what makes it a clear choice for many of our customers.

 

What Sets Longvida^® Curcumin Extract Apart

Longvida^® offers an array of differentiation points that translate to unique selling features for this optimized curcumin extract. To name a few, studies have indicated systemic circulation of free curcumin and 24-hour metabolite detection supporting a once daily dose.¹ Researchers have also indicated Longvida’s fast-acting free curcumin is detected circulating in the bloodstream within one hour of ingestion.²

Longvida^® also offers a host of tangible health applications supported by research that appeal to marketers and finished product formulators alike, such as eye and neural health support, healthy aging, antioxidant support, sports nutrition and joint health, gut health, mood and cognitive health, animal health and many more.

Longvida^® curcumin holds many certifications and accreditations within the industry from third party organizations dedicated to upholding quality and promoting elite standards within the natural products industry. We are proud that Verdure is either accredited, verified, and/or compliant with the following organizations and standards specifically associated with Longvida Optimized Curcumin^®:

• Non-GMO Project Verified / Compliant
• Certified Glyphosate Residue Free
• Alkemist Assured^™
• Self-GRAS affirmation
• C14 Testing Compliant

We are proud of the recognition Longvida^® extract has received for the rigorous scientific support and proven efficacy of a curcumin extract that delivers beneficial support to a wide variety of health applications. It has earned multiple industry awards and global recognition for groundbreaking research initiatives:

• NutraIngredients Award – University Research of the Year 2015
• NutraIngredients Award – Nutrition Research Project of the Year Finalist 2018
• NutraIngredients-USA Award – Nutrition Research Project of the Year 2019
• NutraIngredients-Asia Award – Nutrition Research Project of the Year Finalist 2020
• NutraIngredients-USA Award – Ingredient of the Year: Cognitive Function Finalist 2021
• NutraIngredients-USA Award – Nutrition Research Project of the Year 2021

Under Verdugration^®, our internal sustainability and traceability program, we hold traceability, sustainability, and adulteration controls paramount to the success and understanding of curcumin. Aligned with these objectives, we are proud to work with local farms and farmers to establish generational relationships and offer supply chain controls and traceability standards. Check out our traceability video below:

 

 

Looking Forward With Longvida Optimized Curcumin^® Extract

We are proud to offer Longvida Optimized Curcumin^® and thrilled to exceed our customers’ expectations in a variety of ways, such as offering targeted marketing collateral tailored to applications and needs, clinical studies specific to Longvida^® curcumin, and dedicated customer service support that contribute to the auxiliary benefits Verdure provides to exceed our customers’ expectations. To learn more about Longvida^®, reach out to one of our customer service representatives to get the full picture, or visit our Longvida Optimized Curcumin page for additional resources and information on our optimized Cognitive Curcumin of Choice^®.

 

References:

1. Gota et al. Safety and pharmacoinetics of a solid lipid curcumin particle formulation in patients and healthy volunteers. Tata Memorial Cancer Centre. J Ag Food Chem. 2010. 58(4): 2095-2099. doi: 10.1021/jf9024807
2. Cox KH et al. Investigation of the effects of solid lipid curcumin on cognition and mood in a healthy older population.Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University. J Psychopharmacol. 2015 May. 29(5): 642-651. doi: 10.1177/0269881114552744