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. 2022 Aug 25;14(17):3500. doi: 10.3390/nu14173500

Table 3.

Folic acid (FA) content determined and declared in the tested dietary supplements.

Product No. Determined FA Content Declared FA Content (DV 1) Difference with
the Declared FA Content
One-ingredient supplements
(µg per tablet, capsule)
[%]
1 296.52 ± 8.4 400 25.9
2 374.6 ± 9.3 400 6.4
3 374.5 ± 10.8 400 6.4
4 290.4 ± 22.7 400 27.4
5 292.5 ± 20.5 400 26.9
6 361.1 ± 2.9 400 9.7
7 320.2 ± 26.6 400 20.0
8 304.0 ± 14.7 400 24.0
Multi-ingredients supplements
(µg per tablet, capsule)
[%]
9 3.8 ± 0.3 400 99.1
10 339.2 ± 13.5 400 15.2
11 327.2 ± 20.4 400 18.2
12 3.6 ± 0.2 400 99.1
13 193.9 ± 9.1 600 67.7
14 314.7 ± 28.1 400 21.3
15 371.6 ± 48.4 600 38.1
16 209.9 ± 8.57 400 47.5
17 258.2 ± 1.79 400 35.5
18 250.4 ± 6.8 300 16.5
19 195.2 ± 8.94 200 2.4
20 167.3 ± 2.56 200 16.4
Multi-ingredients liquid supplements
(µg per portion mL)
[%]
21 204.1 ± 7.7 200 +2.0
22 10.7 ± 0.7 30 64.4
23 87.8 ± 3.4 180 51.2
24 173.4 ± 4.1 200 13.3
25 80.6 ± 3.1 100 19.4
26 65.1 ± 0.9 147 55.7
27 1.2 ± 0.1 50 97.5
28 184.1 ± 17.9 200 8.0
29 1.2 ± 0.1 169 99.3
30 57.9 ± 1.0 290 80.0

1 DV: Folic acid content declared by manufacturers or declared value. Results are presented as the mean of three replicates ± standard deviation.