Tumeric - Page 3

QueenDanceALot · ‎04-18-2013

@Effie54 wrote:
A Naturopath can guide you to taking the correct type and amount, instead of guessing. Be careful though, it can cause digestive issues.

@Effie54

Or exacerbate existing ones.

cantdrive55 · ‎03-09-2010

@Shelbelle Unless I’m missing something, item #78826 is standardized to contain 95% curcuminoids and has an almost identical formula as the Piping Rock product.

Shelbelle · ‎03-09-2010

@cantdrive55 wrote:
@Shelbelle Unless I’m missing something, item #78826 is standardized to contain 95% curcuminoids and has an almost identical formula as the Piping Rock product.

Yes you are missing something as I did for several years of buying this product until someone here pointed same thing out to me, the product is 900 mg, but the 95% curcumins are only vaild for 100 mg, please reread the supp facts. Now I pay 3 times the price for Vitacost, but a much more quality product. I am not familiar with Piping Rock, but it would pay to check out their supp label again too.

Shelbelle · ‎03-09-2010

I just checked out the label for Piping Rock and it says it has a 10 to 1 ratio of curcumins, that would be very similar to the Puritans formula, the Vitacost is 855 out of 900 mg, see the difference now?

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

@Shelbelle wrote:
I just checked out the label for Piping Rock and it says it has a 10 to 1 ratio of curcumins, that would be very similar to the Puritans formula, the Vitacost is 855 out of 900 mg, see the difference now?

I take the a standardized version. I'm not understanding what the point is here. Standardized means it's based on a percentage of the total, not how many mg are in a cap.

Shelbelle · ‎03-09-2010

The brands mentioned are not standadized to the full 900 mg, read your labels. Any brand offering a very low price such as Puritans and Piping Rock are not standardized to 95% curcumins to the full mg of the capsule. I did not realize it either until a poster here a few years ago made it clearer to me too. I pay $67 for 240 caps from Vitacost Synergy, the others are much lower in price. That is a red flag that the quality is not the same. the Puritans label says 900 mg but standardized only for 100 mg.

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

I watched a video about ground turmeric vs whole turmeric.

He references this article below...basically saying there are

high levels of lead in ground turmeric...even in organic.
If purchasing ground turmeric, make sure it has been tested

by a 3rd Party. The whole root is the best for safe consumption.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

@Shelbelle wrote:
The brands mentioned are not standadized to the full 900 mg, read your labels. Any brand offering a very low price such as Puritans and Piping Rock are not standardized to 95% curcumins to the full mg of the capsule. I did not realize it either until a poster here a few years ago made it clearer to me too. I pay $67 for 240 caps from Vitacost, the others are much lower in price. That is a red flag that the quality is not the same. the Puritans label says 900 mg but standardized only for 100 mg.

I think I understand what you are saying here. This is what is on my PR label for for the turmeric blend. There are three components of the blend...root, root+extract and extract given as 95% of that as curcurmin content. In other words, only one part of their 'blend' is 95% standardized which means what you get in a capsule is not that but something less...which in this case is unknown because each component has no mg given for it.

"Turmeric Curcumin Complex Proprietary Blend:

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) (root), Turmeric (Curcuma longa) (root) (from 10:1 extract),

Turmeric Extract (Curcuma longa) (root) (Standardized to contain 95% Curcuminoids)"