D4RR3N
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Lutein tablets
Bit unusual but I would like your opinion on something. I recently purchased some Lutein tablets online but what perplexes me is that they are snow
white, not just a white coating but white all the way through. I have my suspicions, how can a tablet which supposedly contains 50mg of lutein be pure
white when lutein itself is brilliant orange/yellow in colour.
just want your opinion because I have heard loads of story's of tablets/supplements sold online which have been found to not contain what they are
supposed to contain
Ingredients: Lutein 50mg, Magnesium Stearate.
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deltaH
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Maybe its 50mg in total, not per tablet  Lutein is very strongly coloured, so
50mg in one tablet should not be white!
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Quote: Originally posted by deltaH  | | Maybe its 50mg in total, not per tablet Lutein is very strongly coloured, so
50mg in one tablet should not be white! |
It clearly says Lutein 50mg on the front and on the back it says Lutein 50mg, (comer) Magnesium Stearate.
I dont know how a tablet containing Lutein could possibly be pure white, even if it contained 1mg it should be off white.
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And I know of no "modification" of lutein that can remove that strong chromophore is a reversible manner to make it bio-available.
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deltaH
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Yes agreed, have you appealed to the seller? A cursory search of lutein tablets in google image certainly show many coloured tablets.
I'd be  if it were me!
[Edited on 9-5-2014 by deltaH]
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D4RR3N
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| Quote: Originally posted by deltaH | Yes agreed, have you appealed to the seller? A cursory search of lutein tablets in google image certainly show many coloured tablets.
I'd be if it were me!
[Edited on 9-5-2014 by deltaH] |
Yep I contacted the manufacturer, so far no reply...I'm almost 100% sure these contain zero Lutein, and yes I am because I purchased two large bottles of this crap!
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Buying tablets of whatever drug/medicine from the internet is riskful and sometimes even dangerous. Many of these things are fake and just a rip off.
Probably you just have tablets made from starch, sugar or whatever plain compound.
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| Quote: Originally posted by D4RR3N | | Quote: Originally posted by deltaH | Yes agreed, have you appealed to the seller? A cursory search of lutein tablets in google image certainly show many coloured tablets.
I'd be if it were me!
[Edited on 9-5-2014 by deltaH] |
Yep I contacted the manufacturer, so far no reply...I'm almost 100% sure these contain zero Lutein, and yes I am because I purchased two large bottles of this crap! |
next step is contact with your local autorities. but depending where you live/purchased the pills you need to probe your's suspicion.
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It might be cheaper to grow your own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropaeolum#Culinary
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If you would like to try growing and isolating lutein yourself, as unionised suggested, here is a paper which talks about extracting it from
marigolds, and got a yield of 105.19g of lutein to every Kg of dried flower!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&...
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