Fraud Warnings!

If you have been researching Ellagic Acid online, chances are you have come across websites with the following information:

1. "Ellagic Acid does not exist naturally in any plants."

WRONG!

According to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center of the United States Department of Agriculture, free ellagic acid has been isolated in 46 plants, including strawberries, walnuts, guava, grapes, pomegranates and raspberries. While ellagic acid was first prepared in 1905 by hydrolysis of tannins from walnuts (J. Chem. Society, 87,1412,(1905)), it was isolated from eucalyptus as free ellagic acid as early as 1958 (Aust. J. Chem.,11.372,(1958)).

2. "But above all, beware of the claims of percentage of Ellagic Acid content. It is only the Ellagitannin content that is relevant."

WRONG!

Sellers of "ellagitannin" (seed powder) say they are quoting Dr. Nixon's study to authenticate their viewe that it is only the "ellagitannin" content that is relevant.

Click here for a direct link to the study copied below from PubMed/MEDLINE:

The term "ellagitannin" does not even appear in this study; however, "ellagic acid" is mentioned 5 times!

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Why make these claims?
Why try to confuse the consumer?
Why defraud those consumers?
Why lie about the issue?

Simple ... to sell a product and make money!

The initial research into Ellagic Acid was done with a red raspberry puree, not the seeds, and once the initial results were published, the red raspberry producers were ecstatic, as it was a potential goldmine in extra fruit sales for them.

The producers of real Ellagic Acid products purchase the available red raspberry concentrates (expensive), or they purchase the Pomegranate and/or Terminalia Chebula extracts (very expensive) for use in their products.

Others not interested in providing top ingredients in their products found out that the one component of the red raspberry that was considered waste material, the seeds, was available for less than 5% of the cost of the actual Ellagic Acid extracts.

Their solution was to purchase the seeds, grind them, add binders, and sell them as a tablet with their "story" of ellagitannins.

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We paid to have this product independently tested:

Independent laboratory testing of this product showed an ellagic acid content of 0.46mg per 1,000mg tablet, and no quantifiable ellagic acid content.

Testing of random samples of sawdust obtained from plants known to contain ellagic acid produced a slightly higher ellagic acid content than this product.

Their product retails at $39.00 per bottle for 60 x 1,000mg tablets, which provides the consumer with 27.6mg of Ellagic Acid per bottle.

If you are looking for a real Ellagic Acid product, click here. This company has produced a product that contains 140mg of Ellagic Acid per capsule, with 180 capsules per bottle. That totals to 25,200mg of Ellagic Acid per bottle!

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So, are the red raspberry seeds totally useless?
No, they are a great source of dietary fiber.

One company has produced a phenomenal dietary fiber product that contains not only the Meeker Red Raspberry seeds (around 150,000mg per bottle), it also has fiber from many other sources.

Fiber-Klenz PLUS is a unique, all natural blend of Meeker Red Raspberry (seed and fiber), Muscadine Grape (seed and fiber), Cranberry (fiber), Blueberry (fiber), Inulin, Apple Pectin, Psyllium Husks, Oat Bran and Bentonite Clay.

The natural plant based ingredients in the Fiber-Klenz PLUS not only provide fiber, they also provide a wide range of other nutrients, including OPCs, Ellagic Acid and Ellagitannins.