Laucke Bio-Fort Selenium

Laucke have included a range of specially selected whole grains with excellent flavour and texture to complement your healthy eating preferences!

Naturally tasty, you can enjoy wholegrain wheat, maize, rye, triticale and linseed whenever you like because our WaferGrains are made to be completely versatile. Refer to our serving suggestions on this packet. Break up the WaferGrains for a Cereal Breakfast, add dips or salads for Lunch, grill with cheese, meats and other toppings for a Dinner or Snack, or have them Plain from the packet. You can make Laucke WaferGrains a low calorie meal that’s light and filling anytime of the day.

Eating a range of natural whole grains promotes vitality and well-being and can help protect against disease. Wholegrains, with all the goodness of the grain, promote the growth of beneficial bacteria in the colon, and are rich in Dietary Fibre. Wholegrain foods are a valuable source of nutrition and are one of the basic food groups recommended by world health authorities. By combining the natural goodness of Laucke WaferGrains with the benefits of Bio-Fort™ Selenium, you are certainly making an important and pro-active choice in gaining the latest functional benefits available in foods today.

Your body’s cells live, work and die in a constant cycle of supporting and serving your body’s systems, hence effective Cellular Function is the key to overall bodily health. Properly maintained cells reproduce more correctly, resist damage by free radicals, fight deterioration, live longer and even die properly (apoptosis) so that the surrounding healthy cells are not compromised. The level and availability of several key micronutrients play a vital role in maintaining effective Cellular Function.

Selenium is a vital micronutrient that is essential for proper cell function. Recommended dietary intakes, which ensure that overt Selenium deficiency diseases are avoided, are determined by health authorities and are typically 60 - 80 micrograms (µg) per day for adults.

However, avoidance of deficiency diseases is no longer seen as an adequate goal for nutrition; we are now seeking to Optimise our dietary intake in order to avoid or postpone the onset of degenerative diseases.

Recent scientific research demonstrates that maintaining Optimal levels of Selenium within your body can improve the function of the immune system, help repair and resist cellular damage, defend against damage caused by free radicals, toxins and pollutants; help protect against specific degenerative diseases, and improve the function of the body’s systems. To appreciate the full range of benefits, please consult your physician and refer to the Research Papers as available from our Web site.
Scientific research suggests that around 230 µg of Selenium each day for men and around 130µg each day for women will provide Optimal nutrition and disease prevention.

Selenium intake in excess of these estimated levels has not yet been demonstrated to provide additional benefits, and is not recommended. While no adverse affects have been reported below intake levels of 800µg per day, supplementary intake in excess of 400µg per day for adults, and 280µg per day for 9-13 year olds, may be detrimental and should be avoided.

While Selenium is important, the form in which we ingest Selenium is even more important.

Bio-Fortification is the process of producing food crops that are rich in bio-available nutrients.

Where extra nutrients are added to the soil, plants become Bio-fortified with this nutrient, delivering the benefit of this highly efficient, functional and natural process

Our bodies have adapted to efficiently metabolise natural plant foods, so when we consume these natural foods, the organic forms of nutrients contained can be readily utilised by the body.

Laucke Bio-Fort ™ products offer the surety that all nutrients are organically incorporated in the form that nature intended. Benefits include effective absorption and better retention of natural organic forms of selenium.

Laucke WaferGrains with Bio-Fort™ Selenium provide the means to optimise Selenium intake in a convenient and biologically natural form, in harmony with normal diet, and to obtain benefits beyond those of basic nutrition. In many parts of the world, natural Selenium levels are too low, and are falling. Laucke use Selenium Bio-fortified grain to provide additional Selenium.

Assuming that the average adult obtains around 80 µg per day of selenium from natural food sources, additional selenium may be required to provide the Optimum intake. The gap, being around 150 µg of selenium per day for men and 50 µg per day for women can be provided in the form of Bio-Fort Selenium.

Each WaferGrain weighs about 10g, and provides around 30 µg of Bio-Fort™ Selenium.

Therefore 5 WaferGrains per day will provide about 150µg and 13 WaferGrains per day about 400µg.

Where Selenium may or may not be obtained from other sources, intake can be adjusted.

Nutrition Information - WaferGrains Servings per package: 6 Serving Size: 50 g (5 WaferGrains)
	Avg Quantity per serving	Avg Quantity per 100g
Energy	714 kJ	1428 kJ
Protein	6.1 g	12.2 g
Fat, total	1.2 g	2.4 g
- saturated	0.2 g	0.4 g
Carbohydrate	31.4 g	62.8 g
- sugars	0.35 g	0.7 g
Sodium	2.3 mg	4.7 mg
Dietary Fibre	6.1 g	12.1 g
Selenium	150 µg	300 µg
1,000 mg = 1 mg
Ingredients: Bio-Fort™ Wholegrain Wheat, Maize, Triticale, Rye, Linseed .