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expiredjinxxxx posted Mar 25, 2022 01:31 PM
Qunol Turmeric Curcumin 100mg 120-Count Capsules + Drink Sachets Extra Strength Supplement $13 at Amazon
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This has no black pepper and has much less curcumin, but apparently has a new water soluable formula that they claim is superior to their other products including the one at Costco.
This has no black pepper and has much less curcumin, but apparently has a new water soluable formula that they claim is superior to their other products including the one at Costco.
These from this deal have roughly 100mg of [curcumin extract -- the active ingredient -- per capsule . They shamelessly play the false advertising '1000 mg' game on the front label (as many brands do), big and bold, directly over '120 vegetarian capsules' to confuse you. In reality it's 2 caps per serving, so it should say 60 servings or 500mg on the front. Someday, someone will sue idiocy like this to get it out of the marketplace.
Back to the active ingredient, you get 120 caps, each with only about 100mg curcumin, and, as you noted, no black pepper. By contract, my standard is the Jarrow 120*500mg that today one can pick up on Amazon S&S (with 5 items) for $23.53, plus there's a 15% coupon showing for me on Amazon today, so this post helped me think about checking to find that! Though the Jarrow also lacks black pepper, BioPerine is a cheap add.
The beauty in the Jarrow is they are 95% circumnoids, so you get over 4x the active ingredient capsule-for-capsule. In this context, Jarrow's still 2x better a deal even at this Qunol sale price. Of course I'm not taking the drink sachets any value, but I wouldn't be drinking that stuff. Great in Indian food but man, it's not something I want to drink!
Sorry to sound shilly for the Jarrow, but I've been bit so many times by so many Amazon clones of this stuff where the amount of curcumin is of dubious merit, that it's become a bit too much of a pet peave.To be fair, at least this Qunol has more than an insignificant amount of curcumin, but there are other brands of better value; you just have to actually look at the label and see past their marketing schemes.
These from this deal have roughly 100mg of [curcumin extract -- the active ingredient -- per capsule . They shamelessly play the false advertising '1000 mg' game on the front label (as many brands do), big and bold, directly over '120 vegetarian capsules' to confuse you. In reality it's 2 caps per serving, so it should say 60 servings or 500mg on the front. Someday, someone will sue idiocy like this to get it out of the marketplace.
Back to the active ingredient, you get 120 caps, each with only about 100mg curcumin, and, as you noted, no black pepper. By contract, my standard is the Jarrow 120*500mg that today one can pick up on Amazon S&S (with 5 items) for $23.53, plus there's a 15% coupon showing for me on Amazon today, so this post helped me think about checking to find that! Though the Jarrow also lacks black pepper, BioPerine is a cheap add.
The beauty in the Jarrow is they are 95% circumnoids, so you get over 4x the active ingredient capsule-for-capsule. In this context, Jarrow's still 2x better a deal even at this Qunol sale price. Of course I'm not taking the drink sachets any value, but I wouldn't be drinking that stuff. Great in Indian food but man, it's not something I want to drink!
Sorry to sound shilly for the Jarrow, but I've been bit so many times by so many Amazon clones of this stuff where the amount of curcumin is of dubious merit, that it's become a bit too much of a pet peave.To be fair, at least this Qunol has more than an insignificant amount of curcumin, but there are other brands of better value; you just have to actually look at the label and see past their marketing schemes.
What makes this deal interesting is the hydro-soluble technology(clealy a buzz word, but still) and how it may change bioavailability. It doesn't matter how much curcumin you have per capsule if it's not absorbed well. In case of quercetine, the bioavailabilty can make a 50X difference! So 20 mg of highly absorbably quercetine is equal to a 1000mg capsule of normal formulation.
I guess Qunol is claiming that this new hydrosoluble formulation is even more bioavailable than the bioperine. Kinda like making Vitamin C fat-soluble (liposomal).
Taking your mention of indian food, it does make sense that curcumine would need fats to become more bioavailable(hence the sauteing in ghee). So if Qunol has been able to make it more absorbale in water, that's potentially a big deal. There might be some data about it out there but I haven't looked.
What makes this deal interesting is the hydro-soluble technology(clealy a buzz word, but still) and how it may change bioavailability. It doesn't matter how much curcumin you have per capsule if it's not absorbed well. In case of quercetine, the bioavailabilty can make a 50X difference! So 20 mg of highly absorbably quercetine is equal to a 1000mg capsule of normal formulation.
I guess Qunol is claiming that this new hydrosoluble formulation is even more bioavailable than the bioperine. Kinda like making Vitamin C fat-soluble (liposomal).
Taking your mention of indian food, it does make sense that curcumine would need fats to become more bioavailable(hence the sauteing in ghee). So if Qunol has been able to make it more absorbale in water, that's potentially a big deal. There might be some data about it out there but I haven't looked.
Jarrow is one of the few brands I also get.
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