Labrada: BCAA Power

Labrada is a brand which has been around for a long time but gone through a quiet patch for some time. To help address this they have recently rebranded and reformulated a great many of their products and BCAA Power is one such product, designed to fit the intra-workout and recovery market.

Fermented BCAA's and Glutamine

To the average person the benefits of fermenting amino acids is probably unknown. If truth be told we were not sure that fermentation would add that much until we looked into a little bit of the science.

To understand why Labrada have gone down this route it is useful to know that the most common form of bcaa extraction is using a process called hydrolysis which involves high levels of acidity to extract bcaa's from animal extracts such as feathers (yes, bird's feathers!).

Of course, the actual end product has nothing in it but pure bcaa's but still, some people will be put off by where the bcaa's originated from. However, it is not this that led Labrada to use fermented bcaa's and glutamine in BCAA Power.

The Pharmaceutical Approach to BCAA Supplementation

Fermentation involves using live cultures in a pharmaceutical laboratory which involves no animal products, nor more importantly, chemicals or acidic treatment which results in a bcaa which is considered by some as higher quality although we would want to see studies to demonstrate that before pronouncing judgement.

In any event, BCAA Power uses 7g of bcaa's in each serving as well as 3g of glutamine and various electrolytes so regardless of the sourcing of the amino acids this would be a very effective product with a lot of science backing up these doses in relation to its ability to improve recovery.