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Muscle Optimeal (Vanilla)
by Jarrow Formulas
2 Pounds (908 grams)

The Ideal Vanilla-Flavored, Low-Sugar Drink Mix Meal Replacement!*

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Muscle Optimeal is the ideal low-sugar drink mix to increase intake of proteins utilizing complex dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It is a complete metabolic optimizer incorporating nutraceuticals known to enhance human performance, including whey protein concentrate and isolate, rice and milk proteins, multi-fiber complex, xylitol, and 26 essential vitamins and minerals. This delicious tasting blend of nutrients mixes instantly in your favorite beverage (including water) for a fast, low-sugar, nutritious meal in a rich vanilla flavor, no blender required. Muscle Optimeal is low in simple sugars, completely natural, and does not contain any artificial flavors or sweeteners (no Aspartame or Acesulfame).*

The Muscle Optimeal Advantage:

Tri-Protein Blend

MultiFiber - An advanced dietary soluble fiber made of complex carbohydrates from rice bran fiber and rice bran solubles. Each serving of Muscle Optimeal contains 6 grams of fiber per serving, comprised of four grams soluble fiber and two grams insoluble fiber.

MultiBlend - A blend of 26 essential vitamins/minerals added to Muscle Optimeal. Included in MultiBlend are important antioxidant nutrients, such as vitamins A, C, E, folic acid and stress B vitamin complex, including vitamin B12.

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Supplement Facts Serving Size: Two (2) Scoops (46 Grams) Servings Per Container: Appoximately 20

	Amount Per Serving	Daily Value
Calories	180
Calories From Fat	20
Total Fat	2g	3%
Saturated Fat	1g	5%
Trans Fat	0g
Cholesterol	50mg	17%
Sodium	90mg	4%
Total Carbohydrate	17g	6%
Dietary Fiber	6g	24%
Insoluble Fiber	2g
Soluble Fiber	4g
Sugars	7g
Protein	22g	44%

Vitamin A	1,250 IU	25%
Vitamin C	15 mg	25%
Vitamin D	300 IU	75%
Vitamin E	7.5 IU	25%
Vitamin K	20 mcg	25%
Thiamin	0.38 mg	25%
Riboflavin	0.43 mg	25%
Niacin	5 mg	25%
Vitamin B6	0.5 mg	25%
Folic Acid	100 mcg	25%
Vitamin B12	1.5 mcg	25%
Biotin	75 mcg	25%
Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5)	2.5 mg	25%
Calcium	150 mg	15%
Iron	4.5 mg	25%
Phosphorus	150 mg	15%
Iodine	37.5 mcg	25%
Magnesium	110 mg	28%
Zinc	3.8 mg	25%
Selenium	17.5 mcg	25%
Copper	0.5 mg	25%
Manganese	0.5 mg	25%
Chromium	30 mcg	25%
Molybdenum	18.8 mcg	25%
Potassium	400 mg	11%

Protein (Milk, Rice, And Whey)	22 g	**
Amino Acids (Essential)
Isoleucine	1.16 g	**
Leucine	2.15 g	**
Valine	1.21 g	**
Phenylalanine	0.77 g	**
Methionine	0.46 g	**
Lysine	1.77 g	**
Tryptophan	0.33 g	**
Threonine	1.21 g	**
Arginine (Semi-Essential)	0.56 g	**
Histidine (Semi-Essential)	0.44 g	**
Amino Acids (Non-Essential)
Alanine	0.93 g	**
Aspartic Acid	2 g	**
Cysteine	0.44 g	**
Glutamine (And Glutamate)	4.83 g	**
Glycine	0.31 g	**
Proline	1.32 g	**
Serine	0.98 g	**
Tyrosine	0.71 g	**

** Daily Value Not Established. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Other Ingredients

Corn Bran, Dicalcium Phosphate, Fructose, Lecithin, Magnesium, Maltodextrin, Milk Derivatives, Natural Flavor, Potassium Chloride, Rice Bran, Rice Protein, Rice Starch, Stevia, Whey Protein Concentrate, Whey Protein Isolate, Xylitol

Suggested Use

As a dietary supplement, one (1) serving within thirty (30) minutes following completion of exercise, or more as recommended by your healthcare practitioner. May also be used in place of a meal during the day. For one (1) serving, mix two (2) scoops (47 g) with six to eight (6-8) ounces of water, milk, soy milk, or your favorite beverage. May also blend with ice and fruit for smoothies, mix into cold or cooked cereals, or add to baked items or frozen desserts.

Warnings

Store in a cool, dry place. ... Do not refrigerate. ... Keep out of the reach of children.

Allergen Info

CONTAINS milk and soy. Contains NO wheat, no gluten, no egg, no fish/shellfish, no peanuts/treenuts.

Applicable Functions

Endurance, Protein metabolism, Slow Metabolism of Fats and Carbohydrates, Vitamin Deficiency

Related Structure Groups

Digestive System, Metabolism Function, Muscles, Stomach

Related Emotions

Fatigue, Shaky

Superior Nutrition And Formulation

High standards along with a passionate commitment to consumers has enabled Jarrow Formulas to be in business for over 30 years. Jarrow Formulas' goal is to promote optimal health with high quality, effective, affordable and "cutting edge" formulations, which are based on sound scientific research data.

Jarrow Formulas' mission is reflected in its motto 'Superior Nutrition and Formulation'. The company's professional staff is actively involved in clinical studies and in working with researchers from universities, institutes and other academic environments around the world. Jarrow Formulas' complete line of nutritional products includes vitamins, minerals, probiotics, standardized herbal concentrates, amino acids, enzymes and enteral nutrition products. Both retailers and consumers are assured of purity, quality, and potency when choosing these products.

Based in Los Angeles, California, Jarrow Formulas was founded in 1977 and incorporated in 1988. Today it markets its products in the United States, Mexico, Canada and throughout the world.

Jarrow Formulas is active in monitoring governmental regulatory affairs, which affect the nutritional industry. It also vigorously promotes the rights of Americans to free access to dietary supplements. Jarrow Formulas funds research studies on important nutritional products, such as CoQ10, to ensure that customers receive the full biological value of these products.

A Company That Gives Back On A Community, National, And Global Level
Jarrow Formulas has donated more than 3,250 bottles of supplements to the Children’s Institute, Inc. (CII), in Los Angeles, which is nationally recognized for helping children who are affected by violence, abuse, neglect and other trauma.

In the past, Jarrow Formulas has donated more than 1,650 bottles of vitamins to the AIDS Project Los Angeles Necessities of Life Program. Additionally, Jarrow associates have donated vitamins, clothing and money to other causes, including the Vitamin Angel Alliance for victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma and the devastating earthquake in Pakistan.

Highest Quality Ingredients And Excellence In Manufacturing

Jarrow Industries, Inc., based in Santa Fe Springs, California, is the manufacturing facility for Jarrow Formulas. Jarrow Industries' standard operating procedures exceed the standards set forth in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia and the GMP’s. Ingredient quality and manufacturing excellence are Jarrow Industries' most important priorities.

Ingredient Quality
All ingredients are selected solely on the basis of quality and in forms that provide optimum potency and bioavailability. The company's minerals are fully reacted using the most bioavailable amino acid chelates to enhance absorption, including aspartates, citrates, glycinates, ascorbates, and picolinates.

Jarrow Industries sources many botanical extracts from the top continental herbalists, including Emil Flaschmann and Nuova Linnea (Switzerland), Indena (Italy), and Kaden (Germany). Many of these extracts contain the highest possible standardized amounts of their active ingredients and meet the uncompromising standards of the German Commission E monograph.

Jarrow Industries maintains strict standards from start to finish. All suppliers must perform rigorous analytical tests to confirm the identifications and purity of the raw material. Jarrow Industries has certificates of analysis and testing results from the most sophisticated of analytical methodology, such as HPLC, ICP-MS to ensure that customers are provided with the highest possible pharmaceutical grade supplements.

There are absolutely no hidden fillers or coatings, binders, shellacs, artificial colors, fragrances or excipients which may disrupt or diminish the bioavailability of any of these ingredients. Furthermore, Jarrow Industries' products are free of wheat, yeast, gluten, corn, sugar, starch, preservatives or hydrogenated oils.

Manufacturing Excellence
All manufacturing takes place in humidity and dust controlled rooms. Each piece of equipment used in the manufacturing of vitamins and supplements is dismantled and sterilized before each production run. This includes mills, blenders, powder fillers, encapsulating machines, capsule counters, blister and bottle packaging machines.

At Jarrow Industries, the Quality Control/Assurance department is separate and distinct from the Production Department, and has full authority to reject ingredients, reject finished product and stop production, without the approval of other company management. Jarrow Industries QC/QA department is headed by staff with post-graduate degrees in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. The QC/QA team consists of 4 full-time employees including full-time inspectors in production.

Jarrow Formulas Quality Assurance
Whether you choose from Jarrow Formulations' line of clinically-proven, high-absorption CoQ10 products, omega-3 essential fatty acids, calcium formula Bone-Up, trend-setting pomegranate products, industry-leading probiotics, or any of Jarrow Formulations' other products, you can feel confident that you are getting the highest quality and very best value. All ingredients are tested for quality, consistency and purity by novel analytical process technology, Near Infra-Red (NIR) Spectroscopy, in conjunction with independent certification of analysis, usually by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) unless another method is superior.

All ingredients are coded and assigned a unique lot number. Production batch records are QC’d by three senior managers prior to blending, and a specialized batch process software program provides a failsafe mechanism to prevent misidentification of ingredients. Jarrow Industries balances are calibrated and QC’d four times per year by factory technicians and checked daily with calibrated standard weights.

All production is performed in clean rooms, supplied with HEPA filtered compressed air. All production rooms are serviced by "Central Dust Collection" particulate remediation systems. Production rooms are sanitized prior to the commencement of every capsule filling run.

Each Jarrow Industries lot is tested by NIR and frequently corroborated with results from an independent laboratory for final confirmation of potency and conformance with ingredient levels. Some complex products are not amenable to finished product testing. In these cases, each ingredient is analyzed before encapsulation. All finished products must pass the USP Microbial Limits Test.

Recognized As A Leader In Innovation And Research

2009: Clinical Study at the University of Ancona (Institute of Biochemistry) in Italy Demonstrated Superior Bioavailability of Jarrow Formulations' QH-absorb. SAM-e Ranked Number 1 and 2 in Sales in the Natural Channel.
2008: Fem-Dophilus and Bone-Up Won Better Nutrition Magazine's "Best of Supplements" Award. Jarro-Dophilus EPS Won Vitamin Retailer Magazine's "Vity" Award.
2007: Bone-Up Won Vitamin Retailer's "Vity" Award in the Bone Support category. Fem-Dophilus Recognized by Prevention Magazine as one of the "Top 10 Breakthroughs of 2007"
2006: Nutrition Business Journal Business Achievement Award - "Investment in the Future" and "Efforts on Behalf of the Industry" categories. Received Vitamin Retailer Magazine's Vity Award and www.SupplementWatch.com "Top Product" award for Jarrow Formulas' KIDS Multi. Received Nutrition Business Journal "Product Merit Award" for two new products being recognized as Outstanding:

Fem Dophilus: The only oral probiotic clinically documented to restore and maintain a healthy vaginal flora and reduce the risk of urogenital infections. Fem-Dophilus features the world's most documented probiotic strains for women's health, Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 and Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14.
PomGuard: Offers greater bioavailability than other pomegranate supplements because it contains specially fermented pomegranate juice along with a complete spectrum of pomegranate phytochemicals from leaf, peel and seed.

2005: Frost & Sullivan's Product Line Leadership of the Year Award. Nutrition Business Journal Business Achievement Award in the "Investment in Science and Research" category. Nutrition Business Journal "Product Merit Award" for two new products being recognized as outstanding:

MK-7 (Menaquinone-7 of the menaquinone family): an enhanced bioactive form of vitamin K.
Pressure Optimizer: supports proper blood pressure regulation.

Jarrow Formulas' Max DHA softgels and Max DHA Liquid were given a "Best Choice" rating by the non-profit group Environmental Defense, which reflects Jarrow Formulas strict procedures to assure the highest purity and quality of its fish oil supplements.
2003: Vitamin Retailer Magazine's Vity Award
2002: Nutrition Business Journal Business Achievement Award: Jarro-Dophilus EPS was recognized for its new enteric coating technology, STAR (STomach Acid Resistance).
Max DHA softgels met all label claims in natural products industry watchdog group ConsumerLab.com's 2008 review of Fish Oil/Omega-3 supplements and EPA/DHA fortified foods and beverages.