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Restoring Nutrition: Upgrade Your Recipes with a Mineral Boost
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Our food is less nutritious than it used to be. Thanks to commercial farming, most of today’s crops are bred to increase yield—the total amount of food farmers produce—without a matching increase in nutrients.
As a result, modern produce is “watered down”—it has less nutrient density than it did 50 years ago.
Research on this is clear:
In 2004, agricultural scientists compared vegetables grown in 1950 and 1999; they found a significant decline in vitamin and mineral content. [ * ]
A 2022 study found similar results: the mineral content of vegetables and legumes has been dropping continuously over the past century. [ * ]
A 2024 study notes an “alarming decline in the nutritional quality of foods” with a particular decrease in essential minerals and antioxidants. [ * ] The researchers call this decline one of “the biggest challenge[s] for future generations’ health."
We’re already seeing the effects. A 2022 study from the CDC found that 97% of American adults are deficient in at least one essential mineral, and nearly 70% are deficient in two or more. [ * ]In the modern world, almost nobody gets enough minerals from diet alone—even if you eat very well.
How do you get more nutrient-dense food, like we had before industrial agriculture?
We have a simple solution: start cooking with minerals.
Adding BEAM Minerals to your food is an easy way to restore that nutrient density—and they may make your dishes tastier too.
Minerals Make Your Food Taste Better
Despite being very concentrated, our liquid minerals taste and behave like water. They have no perceptible flavor, which makes them an ideal addition to your cooking.
But while minerals themselves don’t have taste, they can act as flavor enhancers in food. The classic example is sodium chloride, or table salt. We add salt to our food because it decreases bitterness, increases sweetness and umami, and makes it easier for our tastebuds to access the flavors in what we eat. [ * ]
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But it’ not just salt that makes things taste better. Other minerals, like calcium and magnesium, can improve your food too.
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A 2020 study looked at the effects of different minerals on perception of the taste and mouthfeel. It found that calcium, magnesium, sodium, and bicarbonate all enhanced flavor, mouthfeel, or both. [*]
- A 2013 study found similar results: adding the above four minerals, as well as sulfate, to purified water led people to rate waters as having more depth, body, and pleasant mouthfeel, compared to purified water without minerals. [*]
In short, adding minerals to your cooking isn’t just about improving nutrition—it can also make your food taste better.
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How To Use BEAM Minerals In Your Cooking
If you want tastier, more nutrient-dense food, keep a bottle of BEAM Minerals on hand when you cook. You can add a capful or two to soups, sauces, salad dressings, or anything else that contains liquid and could use a boost of flavor and nutrition.
On their own, our minerals are flavorless and odorless, so they won’t disrupt the food you’re making (they’ll enhance it instead). They’re also fine to heat, freeze, or anything in between; unlike vitamins and other more fragile nutrients, minerals are not destroyed by temperature changes. [ * ]
Here’s a salad dressing we like to make using BEAM Minerals:
Nutrient-Dense Simple Salad Dressing
Ingredients :
2 tbsp. Dijon mustard
Juice of half a lemon
1 clove garlic, grated or finely minced
1 tbsp. white wine vinegar
½ cup olive oil
½ oz. Electrolyze
½ oz. Micro-BOOST
Whisk together the mustard, lemon juice, garlic, and white wine vinegar in a large bowl.
While continuing to whisk, gradually add the olive oil. Start slowly—a couple drops at a time—until the dressing begins to thicken. At that point, you can add the oil slightly faster until all of it is incorporated.
While continuing to whisk, slowly add your minerals, a splash at a time. The liquid will strengthen the emulsion, making your dressing creamier in addition to enhancing flavor and nutrition.
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FAQs
Can I take BEAM Minerals with my other supplements?
Yes, in fact, BEAM Minerals will enhance the bioavailability of all your other supplements.
What is the difference between Micro-BOOST™ and Electrolyze™?
Electrolyze™ is primarily composed of Fulvic Mineral Complexes . Fulvic complexes are small molecules that provide inter-cellular transport for nutritional elements into the cells and carry bio-waste out of the cells. Fulvic complexes are flavonoids , which provide many benefits in the body.
Micro-BOOST™ is primarily composed of the Humic Mineral Complexes . Humic complexes are large molecules that are extra-cellular, meaning they do not enter the cells but stay outside the cells. They are highly-charged molecules that attract, through their electrical charge, bio-waste, free radicals and heavy metals. They ultimately carry bio-waste out of the body. Thus, we call them “Nature’s Janitor”.
How many milligrams (mg) of an electrolyte (Potassium, Magnesium, Sodium, Calcium, etc.) is there in BEAM Minerals?
The quantities of each element in BEAM Minerals products are measured in “parts per million” (ppm), rather than the “milligrams” (mg). Here is the information which usually helps to understand the difference:
Milligrams (mg) vs parts per million (ppm)
In comparing our products to other supplements, people want to know how much of an electrolyte is in our products (like potassium, magnesium, sodium, calcium). Usually they are looking for an amount in milligrams (mg).
We have a hard time answering that question, because the electrolytes (and other elements) in BEAM Minerals products are measured in parts per million (ppm). So how can consumers compare?
The answer is a little complex, but here’s the high points.
The electrolytes in BEAM Minerals products are provided in “trace” amounts that are completely dissolved and thus 100% bio-available, immediately introduced into your circulation when you consumed them and will produce and active effect.
When you take a 320mg pill of magnesium, your body is only able utilize about 12-20% of it as it takes some time because your body has to digest it first. Whatever is not dissolved gets processed out of your body.
When you take a capful of liquid Electrolyze™ and/or Micro-BOOST™, you receive approximately 5.22 ppm of magnesium in which 100% of the magnesium is immediately available to your body. In addition, an important to know is that the magnesium in BEAM Minerals products stay in your system much longer building up healthy levels as you continue to take it daily.
