Nutrition to the Fifth Power

Company Description
Bluebonnet Nutrition was founded in 1991 by the Barrows family with the vision of becoming the leader of and passionate advocate for healthy living through the use of superior dietary supplements. This vision has become a reality by offering the cleanest, purest and most natural nutritional supplements exclusively to independent natural food stores that are inherently dedicated to healthy living and higher learning. Today, Bluebonnet is proud to still honor this commitment, and its loyalty is true and steadfast.
Although the landscape of nutrition is changing rapidly, Bluebonnet Nutrition isn’t simply changing with it. The company is leading the way not only operationally with a 100,000 square foot manufacturing and distribution facility located in the heart of Sugar Land, TX, but innovatively with cutting-edge new products like Ubiquinol, Pharmaceutical-Grade Tryptophan, GliSODin® Vegetarian SOD, Nucleotide (RNA/DNA) Complex, CholesteRice®, Super Earth Green Utopia®, Whey of Life® Whey Protein, etc.—all of which are setting the standards for others in the industry to follow.

With the science of nutrition skyrocketing, Bluebonnet dares to seek a better way: by merging the best that nature and science have to offer. Since its inception over 16 years ago, the company has carefully sowed the seeds of success by an unwavering pledge to the five powers of Bluebonnet Nutrition: Nature, Science, Quality, Truth and Knowledge—one power for every petal of the Texas state flower from which it takes its name.

The company’s pursuit of excellence in these five powers has always been its strength, staying true to the roots of the industry by creating clean, wholesome dietary supplements—all made without unnecessary colors, flavors, fillers, binders or excipients, and packaged in recyclable amber glass bottles to best preserve and protect the nutrients from heat, light and moisture. In fact, few supplements are vegetarian inside and out because most capsules are made from animal by-products. Bluebonnet is one of the few supplement brands to offer a full range of encapsulated products using all natural, 100 percent vegetarian, two-piece capsules.

So, take a good look at the nutritional terrain. Then, do the math and see that Bluebonnet truly does equal Nutrition to the Fifth Power.

Key Markets Served
National supplement brand; select international markets.

Major Products/Service Offerings
• Amino Acids and Protein powders
• Antioxidants
• Vitamins A-K
• Multiples
• Minerals (Boron to Zinc)
• Essential Fatty Acids
• Plant Oils and Fish Oils
• Lecithin products
• Enzymes and Probiotics
• Specialty supplements
• Food supplements
• Herbs
• Vegetarian supplements
• Kosher supplements
• Vegetarian capsule line (Vcaps)

Bluebonnet provides direct shipments exclusively to natural food retail stores, as well as technical services on its complete product line.

What’s New
Bluebonnet Nutrition Corporation is proud to announce that the program to kosher certify its products through KOF-K Kosher Supervision, which commenced in 2006 during its Crystal (15th) Anniversary, has been completed. Since keeping kosher has become synonymous with quality, cleanliness, purity and eating foods that have been manufactured at a higher standard, Bluebonnet products bearing the KOF-K emblem have been carefully supervised with each ingredient tracked to its origin and strict rules imposed on hygienic processes.

In keeping with Bluebonnet’s driving principles—quality and clarity—the company has stepped up its stringent quality control standard inspections conducted in its in-house state-of-the art laboratories, which include:

• Raw Material Identification/Quantification
• High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
• Thin Layer Chromatography
• Ultraviolet/Visible Spectrophotometry
• Disintegration Testing
• Friability Testing
• Atomic Absorption Testing

Additionally, Bluebonnet has christened a new modern ICP (inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry) lab for in-house identity testing of macro- and micro-minerals and heavy metals.

Key Executives
• Bob Barrows Sr., Executive Vice President
• Joyce Barrows, Secretary/Treasurer
• Gary Barrows, President
• Bob Barrows Jr., Vice President, Sales and Marketing
• Steve Barrows, Vice President, Operations