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High-dosage food supplements are more expensive than low-dosage preparations, because they contain considerably larger quantities of vitamins and minerals, and are often more complete in their composition. Relatively speaking, a high dosage preparation is often cheaper. If you wish to take a high-dosed vitamin B complex, supplemented with optimum quantities of magnesium, selenium and zinc, the cheapest option is the Plantina Multi. Included in the price you also receive important nutrients such as vitamin D and manganese.
If you have plans to become pregnant and wish to take the daily dose of 400 microgram of folic acid as recommended by the Health Council, to reduce as far as possible the risk of a baby with spina bifida, and you wish to combine that intake with for example zinc which is known to promote the quality of the uterine wall, then the Plantina Multi is an attractive option. Also because it includes free of charge the complete B complex. There are no grounds for the fears of taking too much vitamin A. The quantity of vitamin A in the Plantina Multi is 2500 IE or 750 microgram. This is absolutely a safe dosage during pregnancy. The same applies for the other vitamins and minerals in the Plantina Multi product.
Another example is Plantina Coenzyme Q10 forte (150 mg). The high dosage per capsule makes this a relatively cheap product. The principle also applies for Plantina Trimare fish oil, the food supplement with the highest concentration of omega 3-fatty acids per 1000 mg (300 mg EPA and 200 mg DHA).
Plantina does not make its products tastier, more attractive or more expensive than necessary. On that basis, for example, our product range does not include products with the title ‘time-release’ (TR) or ‘slow-release’ (SR). Time-release means that once a tablet has been taken it slowly disintegrates in the gastrointestinal tract, so the vitamins and minerals are released in stages from the tablet. In this way, it is suggested, a constant level of vitamins and minerals is delivered to the blood over a long period of time – preferably throughout the entire day and night.
The principle sounds very appealing and convincing. However, it is technically extremely difficult if not impossible to produce a TR preparation of a multivitamin tablet in which the release of essential nutrients can be checked let alone controlled. The question is whether the tablet does disintegrate in the intended time period, or whether it is fact leaves the intestinal tract intact. In addition, all the individual vitamins and minerals are absorbed in specific ways and at specific locations in our stomach. And not only the location of absorption differs; in certain cases, other substances are vital to make absorption of a particular nutrient possible. For example for the take-up of vitamin B12, the ‘intrinsic factor’ must first be formed in the stomach. If the vitamin B12 has not been released in the stomach or at the start of the intestine, then this vitamin is not absorbed at all. Against that background, a TR preparation for a multivitamin tablet is not a sensible option.
The higher price often paid for a TR preparation is in fact a waste of money. The same applies for effervescent tablets. Effervescent tablets may be handy but they make the preparation unnecessarily expensive. These too do not appear in the Plantina range. Examples perhaps of Dutch down-to-earthness.
