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Since 2019 not a year has gone by without a food safety agency ruling on turmeric supplements. Italy made a warning on the label compulsory, the French agency set a maximum dose, the UK toxicity committee published a dedicated assessment, Canada imposed mandatory warning text and, in April 2026, th..

A vitamin D supplement can say "2,000 % NRV" on the label without containing twenty times what you need. What it means is that the reference value used by European labelling is 5 micrograms, that EFSA — the European Food Safety Authority, the scientific body that advises the European Union on food ..

The bottle says «supports digestion» and contains twelve enzymes with names ending in -ase. The intuition is flawless: if digestion is hard work, adding enzymes should help. The problem is that digestion almost never fails for lack of enzymes, and a good part of this market rests on that intuition r..

Cortisol has become the culprit for everything: the belly, the puffy face, the five o'clock slump and the broken nights. And with the culprit came the remedy: ashwagandha, the ayurvedic root that now takes up half a shelf of supplements in any shop in Europe and turns up in almost every wellness vid..

Every September the same thing happens. School starts again, the office air conditioning comes back on, and the "immunity" shelf fills up with tubs of zinc and vitamin C. This year the question arrived earlier than usual, because the health press has spent days comparing the two nutrients as though ..

It is the question we get asked most at the counter this past year: how much protein do I need a day? Right behind it comes the second one, which already has its answer built in: which tub should I take? The official European figure, the one used as a reference for the whole adult population, is low..

Pick up a bottle of omega 3 and read the front: "1,000 mg". Turn it around and find the small print: "EPA 180 mg, DHA 120 mg". Both numbers are true, but only one of them matters, and it isn't the one on the lid. That gap explains why two bottles that look identical can cost the same and give you th..

There are eight jars of magnesium on the shelf and none of them explains the difference. Bisglycinate, citrate, threonate, carbonate, oxide. Prices run from eight to fifty-five euros and every label promises the same three things: energy, rest, muscle. The difference is real, but it isn't where the..