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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Nutr. 2009 Apr 9;102(6):825–834. doi: 10.1017/S0007114509311757

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Percentage increase in excretion of urinary Si over the 6 h period following the ingestion of: an orthosilicic acid (OSA) solution containing 21·4 mg Si (n 5); alcohol-free beer containing 22·9 mg Si (n 5); cooked green beans containing 6·1 mg Si (n 5); ripe, peeled bananas containing 13·6 mg Si (n 5); colloidal silica containing 780 mg Si (n 3); magnesium trisilicate British Pharmacopoeia (BP) containing 200 mg Si (n 8); choline-stabilised orthosilicic acid (ChOSA) containing 20 mg Si (n 8); monomethyl silanetriol (MMST) containing 6·9 mg Si (n 14). Results are means, with standard errors represented by vertical bars. Si-containing supplements and products were ingested at the maximum dose recommended.