Choline.
Choline is an essential nutrient for the health and well-being of animals and humans. Balchem is the world leader in choline with production facilities in both the U.S. and Europe. Learn more about the various choline innovations from Balchem.
Human Nutrition & Health Choline
Choline is fundamental to good health and innovations in science and technology are fundamental to Balchem growth. Our proprietary lipid microencapsulated choline products pioneered targeted choline delivery.
Our newest brand, Optifolin+®, is a novel combination of folate and choline designed to provide lifelong health benefits while also optimizing stability and solubility in application. Recent scientific research showed that moms taking DHA and VitaCholine during pregnancy had significantly improved DHA status over DHA intake alone. This leads to market innovation, with a significant increase in new product launches containing choline over the latest five years.
Animal Nutrition & Health Choline
Much like in human nutrition, choline is considered an essential nutrient in most animal diets. As the global leader in choline, Balchem has been at the forefront of choline research for animals for more than 50 years. Balchem-supported research has identified the impact this essential nutrient has on cell integrity, lipid metabolism and neurotransmission.
Based on the individual needs of each species, Balchem delivers choline as PuraChol™ Choline Chloride for swine, poultry, horses and companion animals and as ReaShure® Precision Release Choline for large and small ruminants.
Industrial Choline
Balchem manufactures and supplies choline solutions for the oil and natural gas industry. Choline chloride and choline bicarbonate offer more attractive, effective, and environmentally responsible clay stabilizers, which heighten production rates and lower costs for the oil and natural gas industry. The industry uses clay stabilizers to mitigate the challenges drilling and stimulation present, including wellbore instability, cuttings disintegration, bit balling, fines migration, and permeability reduction.