Optivida SugR-2-FibR | Sugar-to-Fiber Enzyme Blend | 60 Capsules
The sugar-to-fiber enzyme
SugR-2-FibR is a plant-based enzyme blend you take before you eat. Its lead enzyme takes table sugar and links the glucose into long chains your body digests slowly, and partly treats as fiber. Same food, same taste, a gentler curve.*
† Lab results for the lead enzyme, alternansucrase, under simulated stomach conditions. Carbohydrate Research, 2024.
How it works
Carb blockers try to stop digestion. SugR-2-FibR works with it. Its lead enzyme, alternansucrase, splits table sugar and strings the glucose together into chains before it can rush into your bloodstream.*
Table sugar (sucrose) is one glucose ● joined to one fructose. Normally the glucose is freed fast, and your blood sugar climbs.
Alternansucrase splits the sugar and adds the glucose to a growing chain instead of releasing it. In the 2024 study, very little free glucose was left behind.*
Those glucose chains break down slowly and only partly. About a fifth behaved like dietary fiber, the kind that reaches your gut instead of your bloodstream.*
The science
The lead enzyme in SugR-2-FibR was put through a standard digestion model (INFOGEST) that recreates the human stomach: its acidity, temperature and digestive enzymes. The researchers measured what happened to the sugar, minute by minute.
Vaze R, Gadde S, Rathi A, Rathi VL, Jadhav S. Carbohydrate Research 542 (2024) 109202. doi:10.1016/j.carres.2024.109202
Share of the starting sugar the enzyme had broken down and rebuilt, by minutes in the simulated stomach.
After 2 hours of digestion with intestinal enzymes. Lower means less sugar available to raise blood glucose.
By the end, about 20% of the mixture tested as true dietary fiber (official AOAC 991.43 method).
Half the sugar was converted in about 22 minutes, well within the time food spends in your stomach.
As sugar was converted, almost no free glucose appeared. It went into chains instead.
Pancreatic enzymes couldn't break the chains down at all; intestinal enzymes only partly could.
Laboratory results under simulated digestive conditions, using SucroSEB™, the alternansucrase enzyme from the same manufacturer (Specialty Enzymes & Probiotics) that makes the GlucoSEB™ blend in SugR-2-FibR.
In real life
Before launch, SugR-2-FibR was tried by people wearing continuous glucose monitors, the sensors that show your blood sugar minute by minute.
In a second test, he ate the same handful of peanut candies five times over 12 hours. Three hours after taking SugR-2-FibR, the candy produced no visible spike, and the effect lasted about 10 hours.
Each person wore a glucose monitor for five days without SugR-2-FibR and five days with it, eating normally. Results varied, from small improvements to large ones.
Informal user testing shared by the product's developer, not a clinical trial. Individual results vary.
Inside every capsule
The GlucoSEB™ blend pairs the sugar-converting enzyme with a full set of digestive enzymes, so you get help with the whole plate, not just dessert.*
Splits table sugar and builds the glucose into slow-digesting chains. This is the enzyme behind the 2024 study.*
Help break down starches from bread, rice and potatoes.*
Three proteases that help digest protein from meat, eggs, beans and dairy.*
Helps break down dietary fats and oils.*
Helps digest lactose, the natural sugar in milk.*
Helps with the complex sugars in beans and cruciferous vegetables.*
Help break down plant cell walls in fruits, vegetables and grains.*
Read the label
| Amount per serving | %DV | |
|---|---|---|
| GlucoSEB™ proprietary enzyme blend | 500 mg | † |
| A. sucrase, alpha amylase, protease I, lipase, protease IV, lactase, protease II, cellulase, alpha galactosidase, HemiSEB™, beta amylase | ||
† Daily Value not established. Other ingredients: microcrystalline cellulose, veggie capsule. Always refer to the label on your bottle.
How to take it
That's the label direction. In the CGM tests above, it was taken about 90 minutes before eating.
Use it before your biggest or most carb-heavy meal of the day, or before every meal.
If you wear a glucose monitor, compare a familiar meal with and without it.
Questions
No. SugR-2-FibR is a capsule you swallow before the meal. Nothing is added to your food.
Most carb blockers try to stop starch digestion, and some sugar blockers work by dulling sweet taste or making you feel full. SugR-2-FibR doesn't block anything. Its lead enzyme turns table sugar into slow-digesting glucose chains, and the rest of the blend helps you digest protein, fat and starch.*
The sugar-to-chain conversion was studied on sucrose: table sugar, the sugar in sweets, sodas, sauces and baked goods. The amylases in the blend support normal starch digestion, and the other enzymes help with the rest of the meal.*
60 capsules. At one capsule before your main meal, that's two months. At two capsules before two meals a day, it's about two weeks.
Yes, it's designed to be taken before meals as part of your routine. It contains no stimulants.
Check with your healthcare practitioner first, especially if you take anything that affects blood sugar, and if you're pregnant or nursing.
Keep the bottle closed in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.
One capsule before you eat, about $0.83 each, with free shipping to any US address.
Get SugR-2-FibR*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Consult your healthcare practitioner before using any supplement.
