What's in Unicity Balance and Unimate? Ingredients Explained

There’s a lot packed into Balance and Unimate. Balance brings together several sources of soluble fiber, plant compounds, vitamins, and minerals. Unimate starts with yerba mate leaves that are harvested, dried, aged for months, and concentrated into a green mate extract. They’re very different formulas, even though many people first get to know them together as part of Feel Great.

The ingredient lists are only part of the story. We’ve studied Balance before a high-carbohydrate meal, and we’ve studied Unimate in a randomized human appetite study. That gives us information about the finished products, not just the individual ingredients that go into them.

So what exactly is in Balance and Unimate, and what do we know about the products themselves? We’ll start with Balance.

What's in Unicity Balance?

Balance provides 4 grams of dietary fiber per serving, all of it soluble fiber. That fiber comes from several sources, including guar gum, locust bean gum, citrus pectin, oat fiber, beta-glucan, gum arabic, and other plant-derived polysaccharides.

Those ingredients appear across Biosphere Fiber® and Unicity 7X™, two of the three named blends in the formula. The third, Bios Cardio Matrix™, contains phytosterols and policosanol from sugar cane extract.

Blend	Amount per serving	What's inside
Biosphere Fiber®	2,228 mg	Guar gum, locust bean gum, citrus pectin, oat fiber, beta-glucan
Unicity 7X™	1,404 mg	Plant-derived polysaccharides, gum arabic
Bios Cardio Matrix™	411 mg	Phytosterols, policosanol from sugar cane extract

Why use several kinds of fiber instead of just one? Fiber is a category of ingredients, and different fibers have different physical properties. They vary in characteristics such as solubility, viscosity, and fermentability, which influence how they behave when mixed with water and as they move through the digestive tract.

That’s also why two supplements can both say “fiber” on the front and have very different formulas inside. Balance brings several sources together rather than building the formula around a single type. If you want to understand those differences in more detail, our guide to choosing a fiber supplement explains what to look for.

There’s more to the formula than fiber

Bios Cardio Matrix™ brings phytosterols and policosanol from sugar cane extract into Balance. Phytosterols are naturally occurring plant compounds with a structure similar to cholesterol and have been studied for their ability to reduce cholesterol absorption in the intestine.

Policosanol is a mixture of long-chain alcohols found in plant waxes, including sugar cane. Human research on isolated policosanol has produced mixed results, with some studies reporting changes in blood lipids and others finding little or no effect. In Balance, these ingredients are part of Bios Cardio Matrix™ and sit alongside the soluble fiber at the center of the formula.

Balance also provides 13 vitamins and minerals, including vitamins A, C, and E, several B vitamins, calcium, zinc, and chromium.

Nutrient	Amount per serving	% Daily Value
Vitamin A	104 mcg RAE	10%
Vitamin C	45 mg	50%
Vitamin E	13 mg α-TE	90%
Thiamin	2 mg	170%
Riboflavin	2 mg	150%
Niacin	26 mg	160%
Vitamin B6	7 mg	410%
Folic acid	367 mcg DFE	90%
Vitamin B12	25 mcg	1,040%
Biotin	20 mcg	70%
Calcium	60 mg	4%
Zinc	2.3 mg	20%
Chromium	100 mcg	290%

So while it’s easy to think of Balance simply as a fiber supplement, that description leaves quite a bit out. The 4 grams of soluble fiber are central to the product, but the complete formula brings together multiple fiber sources, plant compounds, vitamins, and minerals.

What happened when we tested Balance before a high-carb meal?

Ingredient research can tell us a lot, but we also wanted to study Balance itself. In a randomized crossover study, nine generally healthy adults ate the same high-carbohydrate breakfast twice. They ate it once without Balance and once after drinking Balance 15 minutes beforehand.

The breakfast contained 89 grams of carbohydrate, including 51 grams of sugar. Participants wore continuous glucose monitors so we could follow their glucose response for the next two hours.

The difference showed up during the first hour. With Balance, glucose at 30 minutes was 34% lower. At 45 minutes, it was 37% lower. Across the full two-hour period, glucose area under the curve was 43% lower.

The maximum change in glucose was also smaller, measuring 52 ± 15 mg/dL with Balance compared with 78 ± 13 mg/dL without it. That’s useful information because it comes from testing the complete Balance formula rather than trying to predict the result from research on one of its individual ingredients.

The study involved nine generally healthy Unicity employees and looked at the response to one high-carbohydrate meal over two hours. It wasn’t designed to measure long-term changes in HbA1c, body weight, or glucose control over weeks or months. Within the conditions tested, however, Balance produced a clearly different post-meal glucose response.

For more about Balance and how it’s used, read What Is Unicity Balance?.

What's in Unicity Unimate?

Unimate has a very different formula. At its center are 3 grams of Unimate Green Mate Leaf Extract Powder, made from yerba mate, or Ilex paraguariensis. Yerba mate is a South American plant with a long history of use as a brewed beverage.

The plant naturally contains compounds including chlorogenic acids, polyphenols, theobromine, caffeine, and saponins. But what goes into Unimate isn’t simply ground-up yerba mate leaves. How those leaves are harvested, dried, aged, and extracted is an important part of the product.

From yerba mate leaf to Unimate

We use a five-stage process called BioSelect™ to produce the green mate extract in Unimate. It begins with yerba mate grown under forest canopies or in restored growing areas. Mature leaves are hand-harvested every one to three years, briefly flash-heated to stop enzyme degradation, and then dried at low temperatures without combustion or smoke.

After drying, the material is sifted and aged for six to 12 months before it’s milled. Some of the yerba mate used to make Unimate therefore spends up to a year aging before the extraction process even begins.

We then use a non-chemical extraction process followed by three-stage filtration. This concentrates chlorogenic acids, theobromine, polyphenols, caffeine, saponins, and other compounds naturally present in yerba mate. The extract is tested by batch for its bioactive profile before we use it in Unimate.

That process is one of the main differences between Unimate and traditionally brewed yerba mate. Traditional yerba mate is generally made by steeping dried leaves in water. Unimate uses a concentrated green mate leaf extract produced through BioSelect.

According to third-party testing reported by Unicity Science, our BioSelect extract contains up to 10 times the chlorogenic acids of typical coffee and up to 20 times those of other commercial yerba mate products. These figures come from third-party testing reported by Unicity rather than a published clinical comparison.

What happened when people drank Unimate?

We’ve also studied Unimate itself. In a randomized controlled crossover study, 18 healthy adults arrived after an overnight fast and tried both conditions on separate occasions, drinking Unimate once and water once. Researchers followed their appetite for 90 minutes and then served a meal where participants could eat as much as they wanted.

Participants reported significantly greater fullness after Unimate. When the meal arrived 90 minutes later, they ate about 11% fewer calories than they did after water. That worked out to roughly 150 fewer calories at the meal.

The study measured several aspects of appetite, and the significant findings were greater fullness and lower calorie intake at the following meal. It was an acute study in 18 healthy adults, so it wasn’t designed to measure long-term changes in body weight. What it does give us is human research on Unimate itself rather than an assumption based on research involving yerba mate in another form.

If you want to learn more about Unimate, its history, and how it’s used, read What Is Unicity Unimate?.

Why Balance and Unimate are used together

Once you look inside both formulas, the pairing in Feel Great makes more sense. Balance is centered on soluble fiber and is used around meals. Unimate is centered on concentrated green mate leaf extract and is generally used during the fasting portion of the program.

They weren’t formulated to do the same thing, and the research we’ve done with them reflects that. With Balance, we’ve studied the glucose response following a high-carbohydrate meal. With Unimate, we’ve studied fullness and food intake.

Feel Great brings Balance and Unimate together with time-restricted eating as part of the same daily routine. If researching the ingredients brought you here, you now have a better picture of what’s behind both products. When you’re ready to move from ingredients to the routine itself, How to Get the Most From the Feel Great Program walks through how to use it.

Common questions about Balance and Unimate

How much fiber is in Balance?

Balance provides 4 grams of dietary fiber per serving, all of it soluble fiber. Its sources include guar gum, locust bean gum, citrus pectin, oat fiber, beta-glucan, gum arabic, and other plant-derived polysaccharides. Bringing several sources together gives Balance a different fiber profile from products built primarily around one type.

Does Balance have side effects?

Increasing fiber intake can sometimes cause temporary digestive changes such as gas or bloating, particularly if your normal diet has been relatively low in fiber. Follow the preparation and use directions on the Balance box. We cover this subject in more detail in our guide to Unicity Balance side effects.

Does Unimate contain caffeine?

Yes. Unimate contains naturally occurring caffeine from yerba mate, along with compounds such as chlorogenic acids, polyphenols, theobromine, and saponins. If you’re sensitive to caffeine, keep that in mind when deciding where Unimate fits into your day.

Is Unimate the same as yerba mate tea?

They come from the same plant, but they’re prepared differently. Traditional yerba mate is generally made by steeping dried leaves in water. Unimate uses concentrated green mate leaf extract produced through BioSelect, which includes controlled drying, six to 12 months of aging, extraction, filtration, and batch testing.

That distinction matters when you’re looking at research too. Studies of traditionally prepared yerba mate can tell us about the plant, while studies using Unimate tell us what happened when people consumed Unimate.

The details tell the better story

Balance and Unimate are easy to use, but there’s quite a bit behind what ends up in your glass. Balance brings together several sources of soluble fiber, plant compounds, vitamins, and minerals, and we’ve studied what happened when it was taken before a high-carbohydrate meal. Unimate starts with yerba mate, goes through months of aging and our BioSelect process, and has been studied in people for its effects on fullness and food intake.

We think those details are worth sharing. You shouldn’t have to rely on a slogan to understand a product you’re putting in your body. We can tell you what’s in it, explain how it’s made, and show you what happened when we studied it.

There’s a lot more behind Balance and Unimate than what fits on the front of a box. And once you know what’s actually inside them, it’s easier to understand why both have a place in Feel Great.