Quality of Curcumin Supplements From US Retailers Better Than You May Have Feared | Plus: High Price ≠ High Quality
Curcumin has become increasingly popular over the past years. No wonder in view of the ever-extending list of potential health benefits - "potential" is, as T. Tsuda highlights , yet a keyword in this context. No, you don't have to email me asking for the brand names of the 87 products Skiba et al. bought and analyzed (32 of them) for their latest study in Molecular Nutrition and Food Science ( Skiba 2018 ) ... honestly, bros: I would have told you the names if I knew them. Unfortunately, the scientists from the University of Arizona, Tucson , follow the example of so many colleagues before them and tell us only the criteria they used to narrow down the 228 surveyed items to a list of 87, of which they later sent 32 to the HLPC analysis. After excluding identical products available at multiple retailers (n = 99) or containing different capsule counts (n = 42), Skiba et al. recorded the exact type, amount, and recommended daily dosage of turmeric; whether or not a...
