Why do your supplements contain excipients? Are any of them harmful?
Unlike the excipients added to processed foods, those used in medicines and dietary supplements are needed:
- To facilitate delivery of the active principle to the body. If the dose of the active substance is very small, it’s necessary to bulk out the capsule or tablet with an excipient. For that, a further excipient that binds these two ingredients is often needed. Sometimes, it’s important for the active principle to be released only when it reaches its destination. This is the case with probiotics, for example, which need to withstand the acidity of the stomach in order to arrive in the gut live and intact. Enteric-coated capsules using excipients have thus been created so that they only dissolve once they reach the gut.
- To produce a form (capsule, gel, drops, liquid) suited to the relevant administration method (drinking, injecting, through the skin …).
- To improve the manufacturing process. Problems may occur during the manufacture of a supplement such as powders not flowing properly in matrices. Flowing agents are therefore added such as stearic acid or rice flour.
- To make a medicine more acceptable. It’s sometimes necessary to mask an unpalatable taste, especially for children. A number of excipients can flavour the supplement to increase treatment compliance. Other excipients are used to develop liquid or effervescent forms that are easier to ingest.
- To ensure preservation or maximise bioavailability. As active principles are often fragile, it may be necessary to add antioxidant excipients, and even antimicrobial preservatives. In other cases, excipients will improve absorption of the active substance by the body.
The use of excipients is therefore key to producing an effective dietary supplement. But it would obviously be crazy to use toxic excipients in a product designed to improve human health! That’s why we guarantee that our supplements contain no ‘excipients with recognised harmful effects’ as defined by European regulations.
Although none of the following excipients have been identified as toxic by scientific studies, we have nonetheless decided to replace microcrystalline cellulose, silicon dioxide, magnesium stearate and all other synthetic excipients with natural ones: acacia gum, rice flour and rice bran. These do not appear on the European list of excipients with harmful effects: they are considered safe for human health. Thus it’s primarily for ecological and ethical reasons that we have taken this step, as well as to satisfy those customers keen to see more totally natural excipients in our products (‘Clean Label’).
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Easy to order
Easy to order, good and fast delivery to Finland, the box was intact and the content exactly what I ordered. I am satisfied. Product prices are on moderate level. Thank you Supersmart!
VIITANEN Esa
6 Days
Fine quality service
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Fatma Coltu
7 Days
efficient easy to use
efficient eqsy to use
Mr G Birtles
13 Days
Quick processing orders…
You are so quick in processing orders and prompt in shipping too. Very easy to do business with you. Thanks a lot for your great service.
JOAQUIN Epifanio
19 Days
I am merely judging the delivery system
I am merely judging the delivery system, which was flawless. It wouldn't make any sense to comment on the efficacy of the supplements, since that is only possible on a statistical basis. Even if something doesn't improve, that doesn't have to mean that the supplement doesn't work, since one doesn't know how it might have worsened without the supplement and the opposite might also apply, since many symptoms are psychosomatic and the supplement might provide a placebo effect.
Roger De Backer
27 Days
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patrick
29 Days
Magnesium and Zinc Orotate are top…
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Kristjan
39 Days
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43 Days
Possibility to enjoy a variety of high…
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45 Days
Efficient ordering and delivery
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Gill Lee
45 Days
Happy customer.
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49 Days
Prompt and reliable.
Prompt and reliable.
MIFSUD Joseph
55 Days
great? / OK
I don't use the word great; everything was OK; it is maybe too early to expect an effect of the supplements
STAEHLI C
62 Days
Well,It was yesterday I started using…
Well,It was yesterday I started using it but I can tell the supplement is working perfect,will definitely still give best comments once I'm done using it ...
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63 Days
Great products
Great products, fast delivery.
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