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Sage capsules with 4:1 extract from the leaves
You probably know sage as a kitchen herb or as tea. Vitalplant’s sage capsules provide the leaves in concentrated form as a 4:1 extract, without brewing and without the strong natural taste.
What a 4:1 sage extract means
An extract ratio of 4:1 describes how concentrated the plant is. Four parts of dried sage leaves are used to produce one part extract. The daily serving therefore corresponds to around 1,400 mg of leaf material. In contrast, the composition of loose dried leaves varies depending on harvest, location, and storage time.
What’s in the leaves. Sage leaves naturally contain essential oils, rosmarinic acid, flavonoids, and tannins and bitter compounds. The typical aroma comes mainly from the essential oils, which sit in tiny glandular hairs on the leaf surface.
Capsules instead of an infusion. If you have previously drunk sage as tea, the capsules give you a fixed amount per serving rather than an infusion whose strength depends on steeping time and the amount of leaves used.
Salvia officinalis: plant and origin
Common sage belongs to the mint family and grows as an evergreen semi-shrub reaching 30 to 50 centimeters in height. It has gray-green, finely hairy leaves and violet flowers. Only the leaves are used. The plant originally comes from the Mediterranean region and prefers sunny, calcareous soils.
One of Europe’s oldest cultivated plants. In the Capitulare de villis, a Carolingian ordinance for the administration of estates around the year 800, sage is listed by name as a plant to be cultivated. Through monastery gardens, it spread throughout Central Europe. For beekeepers, sage remains a valued nectar source to this day.
Sage capsules: composition and quality
The formula consists of exactly two ingredients: sage extract and the capsule shell made of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose. No fillers, no anti-caking agents, no colorants. The product is vegan, gluten-free, and sugar-free, filled in amber glass. A plant extract is only as good as its raw material, which is why every batch is tested for heavy metals by an independent laboratory.
Behind Vitalplant is Christian Lazar, a licensed pharmacist with over 35 years of professional experience at Stern Pharmacy.
Three essentials for heart and blood vessels
Heart Vital brings together three products from our heart and blood vessel range: a comprehensive heart complex, vegan omega-3 fatty acids, and a complex featuring red vine leaf, rutin, and pine bark. Save compared to ordering each product individually.
What’s in the bundle
Heart Complex Capsules. The formula combines coenzyme Q10, OPC from grape seeds, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin B1, and other carefully selected ingredients in one capsule.
Vegan Omega 3 Capsules. The DHA and EPA come from microalgae oil, the original source of both fatty acids, and are complemented by vitamin D3.
Vein Complex Capsules. Red vine leaf, rutin, pine bark, and grape seed extract, complemented by acerola as a natural source of vitamin C and quercetin.
What the nutrients do
A daily intake of 250 mg of DHA and EPA contributes to normal heart function. Thiamin contributes to normal heart function. Vitamin C helps protect cells from oxidative stress and contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels. These claims are listed in the EU Register of authorised health claims.
Ingredients and quality
All three products come unchanged from our range: vegan, with no unnecessary additives, bottled in amber glass, and independently laboratory-tested for every batch. Find details on the product pages.
Vitalplant is backed by Christian Lazar, a licensed pharmacist with over 35 years of professional experience at Stern Apotheke.
Nine ingredients with vitamin C, zinc, and selenium
Vitalplant's Immun Complex combines two mushroom extracts, beta-glucans from brewer's yeast, two plant extracts, and three micronutrients. The daily dose is three capsules.
What’s in the daily dose
600 mg turkey tail mushroom extract, standardized to 30 percent polysaccharides. Trametes versicolor is a tree fungus whose concentrically colored fruiting bodies resemble a turkey tail, hence the English name Turkey Tail.
400 mg Yestimun®, a raw material from brewer's yeast with 80 percent beta-glucans. This yields 320 mg beta-glucans. These polysaccharides are found in yeasts, mushrooms, and grains.
300 mg reishi extract, also standardized to 30 percent polysaccharides. Plus 200 mg andrographis extract with 30 percent andrographolide and 200 mg echinacea extract.
The three micronutrients. 160 mg vitamin C from PureWay-C®, 30 mg zinc from bisglycinate, and 80 µg selenium from selenomethionine. Supplemented with 10 mg black pepper extract.
What vitamin C, zinc, and selenium do
Vitamin C, zinc, and selenium all help protect cells from oxidative stress. Vitamin C also helps reduce tiredness and fatigue.
Zinc contributes to normal DNA synthesis and plays a role in cell division. Selenium contributes to normal thyroid function. All stated claims are listed in the EU Register of authorised health claims.
There are no authorised claims for the mushroom and plant extracts. For these, we state the amount and standardization.
Immun Complex capsules: composition and quality
Nine ingredients in one formula, without fillers, anti-caking agents, or colourants. The capsule shell is made of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose. The product is vegan and gluten-free, filled in amber glass. Each batch is tested for heavy metals by an independent laboratory.
Behind Vitalplant is Christian Lazar, a licensed pharmacist with over 35 years of professional experience at Stern Pharmacy.
Acerola extract with 25 percent natural vitamin C
Vitamin C can be produced synthetically or obtained from plants. Vitalplant's acerola capsules take the second route: the vitamin C comes entirely from acerola cherry extract.
What’s in a capsule
500 mg acerola extract. The extract is standardized to a vitamin C content of 25 percent. 500 mg of extract provides 125 mg of vitamin C per capsule, which corresponds to 156 percent of the nutrient reference value.
The acerola cherry. Malpighia glabra is a shrub from Central America and the Caribbean. The fruits look like cherries, but botanically they are not related. They spoil quickly and are therefore processed soon after harvesting.
Only two ingredients. Besides the extract, the capsule contains only the shell made of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose. No added ascorbic acid powder, no fillers.
What vitamin C does
Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue and to normal energy-yielding metabolism. It also contributes to normal function of the nervous system and normal psychological function.
Vitamin C helps protect cells from oxidative stress and supports normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin, bones, cartilage, and blood vessels. Vitamin C also increases iron absorption.
All statements listed are included in the EU Register of authorized health claims.
Acerola capsules: composition and quality
The formula consists of two components: acerola extract and the capsule shell. No fillers, no anti-caking agents, no colorants. The product is vegan and gluten-free, filled in amber glass. Each batch is tested for heavy metals by an independent laboratory.
Behind Vitalplant is Christian Lazar, a licensed pharmacist with over 35 years of professional experience at Stern Pharmacy.
Organic flower pollen with 20 g protein per 100 g
Flower pollen is not a bee product in the sense of honey, but collected plant material. Bees carry it in as food for their brood, and beekeepers harvest a small portion of it.
How flower pollen is harvested
On their foraging flights, bees brush off pollen and shape it with their hind legs into small pellets, the pollen baskets. At the hive entrance, a pollen trap removes part of it.
The color reveals the plant. Flower pollen is never monochrome. Yellow often comes from rapeseed, orange from dandelion, and gray to black from poppy. A bag therefore always contains a mosaic of colors.
After harvesting, the pollen is gently dried and cleaned. Our pollen comes from EU agriculture and certified organic beekeeping, certified according to the EU organic regulation, inspection body number DE-ÖKO-039.
Nutritional values and use
Per 100 g, flower pollen contains 19.8 g protein, 62.4 g carbohydrates and 9.29 g fat. The energy value is 1.405 kJ, or 333 kcal.
That means around 24 percent of the energy value comes from protein. The EU threshold for claiming a high protein content is 20 percent.
Depending on the source plant, flower pollen tastes floral to slightly bitter. A teaspoon over yogurt, porridge or in a smoothie is common. If you find the taste unfamiliar at first, start with small amounts.
Organic flower pollen: origin and quality
One ingredient only: organic flower pollen, dried. No additives, no added sugar. Packed in a resealable stand-up pouch. Every batch is tested for heavy metals by an independent laboratory.
Behind Vitalplant is Christian Lazar, a licensed pharmacist with over 35 years of professional experience at the Stern Apotheke.
The only one of our medicinal mushrooms that people also eat
Organic Shiitake capsules from Vitalplant contain extract from Lentinula edodes. Reishi is too bitter, Chaga too hard, Cordyceps too rare. Shiitake, by contrast, is found in every well-stocked supermarket.
From the tree that gave it its name
The name comes from Japanese and is meant literally: Shii refers to the Pasania tree, an East Asian relative of the oak, while take simply means mushroom. So it is the shii mushroom, named after the wood on which it was traditionally grown.
To this day, part of the harvest grows on inoculated hardwood logs outdoors, a method that has been practiced in China and Japan for centuries. Worldwide, Shiitake ranks second in cultivation volume, behind button mushrooms.
In cooking, it is valued for its pronounced umami flavor, which comes from guanylate and even intensifies when dried.
Edible mushroom and extract are two different things
The fact that a mushroom is familiar as a food does not change the rules for the extract. No health claim is permitted in the EU for mushroom extracts.
We therefore do not use culinary familiarity as a back door for claims we would otherwise not be allowed to make. What is stated here is the type, the amount of extract, and the origin.
Dosage compared and quality
At 500 mg per capsule and two capsules a day, Shiitake is the highest-dosed single mushroom in our range. For comparison: Reishi is at 300 mg per capsule, Hericium and Cordyceps at 400 mg.
The extract powder comes from certified organic cultivation, inspection body number DE-ÖKO-039, origin non-EU agriculture. The capsule contains only extract and the vegan shell made of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, no anti-caking agent, no filler. Amber glass largely blocks UV light.
Behind Vitalplant is Christian Lazar, a licensed pharmacist with over 35 years of professional experience at Stern Apotheke.
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