Aloe vera is classed as a herb, is a lily and looks like a cactus. The plant needs lots of sunshine to develop fully and is commercially commonly grown in South Africa, Australia, India, China, Mexico, South America, Curaçao and even some in Spain. The best aloe vera crop is achieved if one grows the potentially most nutrient dense species in highly fertile soils, giving it pure water and using organic farming methods. Best (organic) Farming Practices is of course how we grow our crop, it is best for the environment and best for you!

The aloe vera plant stores up rain to use for functioning over time (hence survives dry seasons or dry climates) and contains some 95% water. In the remaining 5% of the plant sits a full spectrum of 300 different types of nutrients, each of which has a unique function (reference: Handbook of Phytochemical Constituents of Generally Regarded as Safe Herbs and other Economic Plants, James A. Duke, 2001).

There are around 350 different aloe vera species, which all contain different quantities of active nutrients, with different levels of working molecules for these nutrients. Aloe Vera Barbadensis Miller is the most molecule dense species, hence the most nutritious and the one used in every Aloeride® capsule.

Aloeride® manages to capture and preserve in their active form, an unprecedented number of these working molecules. Aloeride® is unique because of its exceptionally high number of working molecules combined across the full spectrum of nutrients.

Some people want to know where we grow our aloe vera. When I tell them it is grown in London we all have a good laugh ;-) The honest truth is that it is a misleading issue. Say it's grown in South Africa, that might give South Africans a feel good factor and national pride. What if it was in the USA or in Australia? What exactly would be different if it was grown in South Africa, in USA or in AUS, quite beside the fact that processing methods vastly influence the outcome. The criteria for a product being perceived as good or bad just becomes political or whatever else but never focusses on what should be focussed on. Sure enough if I had said in China people would get worried (including me). At the end of the day it is the independent laboratory tests that prove or disprove the aloe vera quality and, in case of Aloeride® its superiority.