Home of Superior Source MicroLingual® tablets, Continental Vitamin Company has provided trusted vitamins and supplements since 1969. Continental Vitamin Company is the manufacturer of the Superior Source product line, recognized as the only source of soft-molded instant release nutraceutical tablets.
Many companies market products as fast dissolving, yet they are still compressed tablets. Only Superior Source provides a diverse line of vitamins, minerals, and herbal formulas in instant release soft-molded tablets. Our proprietary methods involve using Low Pressure Hydromolecular (LPH) technology to create these unique tablets. There is truly nothing like them available on the market today.
The standard compressed tablets produced by most companies require binders to hold them together and also contain needless fillers and excipients that leave less room for the active ingredient. That ultimately means consumers have to take more of them (or swallow a larger pill) to get the same amount of actives found in a Superior Source MicroLingual® tablet.
Our trade secret MicroLingual® delivery system bypasses the digestive system—where it can be a gamble whether the nutrient is properly absorbed into the blood stream. Superior Source soft molded MicroLingual® tablets dissolve immediately under the tongue, resulting in quick and direct absorption.
Our soft molded MicroLingual® tablets contain no excipients and rely on a small amount of acacia gum to hold them together. That results in a much more concentrated product about a tenth the size and weight of an equivalent standard swallowed tablet.
MicroLingual® Technology was made for B12 delivery!
When typical vitamin B12 tablets or capsules are swallowed, they head to the stomach where the potency of any supplement is lost due to the high acid environment. The amount that remains—about 50% of what was swallowed—heads into the digestive tract.
Here, vitamin B12 can only be absorbed into the body if it comes in contact with a special protein in the gut, called intrinsic factor. Intrinsic factor has to happen upon the vitamin B12 and lock onto it in order to bring it through the intestinal wall. This is a very inefficient process that results in limited absorption of supplemented vitamin B12.
The MicroLingual® system bypasses all that. Held under the tongue, the supplement dissolves instantly making it immediately available for absorption. As a result, our B-12 vitamins are our flagship products.
Here, vitamin B12 can only be absorbed into the body if it comes in contact with a special protein in the gut, called intrinsic factor. Intrinsic factor has to happen upon the vitamin B12 and lock onto it in order to bring it through the intestinal wall. This is a very inefficient process that results in limited absorption of supplemented vitamin B12.
