Gall Pharma Beta-Carotene 5 mg Capsules, 60 ST

Gall Pharma Beta-Carotene Capsules are a food supplement with 5 mg beta-carotene per capsule. Maintains normal vision, protects cells from free radicals, promotes skin tanning and protects against premature skin ageing.

Beta-carotene is probably the best known and most important carotene for humans and belongs to the carotenoid group. These are compounds which, as natural pigments, give many plants and some animals their typical orange, yellow or red colour. Carotenes occur naturally in large quantities in carrots, spinach, cabbage, tomatoes, apricots and papayas. As beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, is only produced in plants, it must be supplied with food. Depending on requirements, beta-carotene can be converted into vitamin A in the body or its antioxidant properties can be utilised.

This precursor of vitamin A has the following functions:

• Eye and skin health: Vitamin A can be produced from beta-carotene as required. Vitamin A contributes to the maintenance of normal vision and normal skin and mucous membranes.
• Free radical scavenger: Beta-carotene also protects cells from free radicals. Exposure to stress, alcohol and nicotine, illness, UV radiation and other environmental influences lead to an excess of free radicals in the human body. They damage the cells and are therefore involved in the development of many diseases. Beta-carotene can render free radicals harmless.
• Skin tanning: As natural pigments, carotenoids give many plants (such as carrots) their characteristic orange-red colour. Beta-carotene can promote skin tanning.

Vitamin A also contributes

• to a normal iron metabolism
• to a normal function of the immune system and has a function in cell specialisation.

With excessive sun exposure, a daily intake of beta-carotene is useful to protect sensitive skin from premature ageing and to promote skin tanning. Supplementation with beta-carotene has also been shown to protect the eye from damage caused by (sun)light.

Dosage form

capsules

Directions

• Adults: Take 1 x 1 capsule daily with liquid.
• Notes: Caution during pregnancy!

Ingredients

• Composition: bulking agent: mannitol (may have a laxative effect if consumed in excess); capsule shell: gelatine; colouring agent in the capsule shell: titanium dioxide; beta-carotene (modified starch, maltodextrin, beta-carotene, polysorbate 80, DL-alpha-tocopherol, sodium ascorbate); anti-caking agent: magnesium salts of fatty acids.
• Nutritional values per daily dose: 1 capsule contains 5 mg beta-carotene (corresponding to 104 % NRV* of vitamin A) *NRV = per cent of the recommended daily intake