“Looks like the tablets are inexpensive: $0.04 ea in the 600 tablet container”
Two months supply, as 10 pills a day is the recommendation. Active ingredient in 10 tablets 240 mcg. take with food.
The powdered version is $8 more, 75 servings per container @ 1 teaspoon. 1 teaspoon gas 360 mcg of active ingredients. Doesn’t need to be taken with food, just water. Not as many Amazon reviews on the powder but a few claim this made them violently ill.
Yeah, I was wondering how many tablets constituted the recommended dose. I would always work my way up to a quantity like that and probably split the dose.
It’s always a good idea to read user reviews before purchasing a new supplement. But even that didn’t prepare me for my reaction to ashawaganda, which was of the “violently ill” category. In the case of phytoene, maybe I will go with a micro-dose — say two tablets daily — and hope that over a long period of time it will have a protective effect. Easier for me to do that than consistently eat the fruits and berries that would supply similar.
I think I will just continue to take Natrol JuiceFestiv and VeggieFestiv, superfood products in capsule form that would be expected to contain phytoene based on their constituents. And no chance of GI reactions.