Seagreens® Food Capsules
Enhance your daily nutritional intake with these easy to take vegan capsules.
Take two capsules per day to maintain and build the foundation of your health, or more to tackle specific health conditions or undertake a detoxification programme.
This unique blend of three sustainably-harvested shallow water seaweeds (Ascophyllum nodosum, Pelvetia canaliculata, and Fucus spiralis) has been specifically combined to provide an exceptionally broad nutritional profile.
Seagreens® Food Capsules contain all the micronutrients which we need even in tiny amounts, to feed the foundation of health on a permanent daily basis.
They provide a rich nutrient source of vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and trace elements in a natural, synergistic combination which your body recognises as food and can therefore absorb completely.
Seagreens® adds missing nutrients to your diet, helps you absorb more nutrients from other foods you eat and have a gentle detoxifying action helping you expel toxins, including heavy metals from the body.
Seagreens® Food Capsules can be taken by everybody, including during pregnancy. They are suitable for babies, children and elderly people and do not interfere with any other medicines or supplements taken.
What's in it
Food Capsules contain a unique wholefood blend of finely milled Seagreens® native wild Wrack seaweeds Ascophyllum, Fucus and Pelvetia whose composition and health benefits Seagreens has studied and documented for over two decades. Vegetable capsules. Nothing added or extracted. Non-allergenic.
What it does
Widely used for comprehensive dietary completeness every day, and at higher levels in nutritional therapy. Contributes to healthy digestion, metabolism, circulation and cognition subject to research since 2008 with many published scientific papers.
How to use
2 capsules (1 gram) each morning, preferably with first food or drink, contributes a balance of micronutrients to a normal daily diet. In older age and to address health conditions and nutrition deficiencies, professional advice may be helpful before using higher daily amounts.
For children use half the amount, or Seagreens Iodine Lite+ are rcommended. Safe in permanent daily use for any age and health condition.
Provenance
British Isles and Nordic region. The best seaweed species are found in different locations. Seagreens® has developed 5 food certified remote harvesting locations and production facilities in England, Iceland, Ireland, Norway and Scotland.
Further Information
The Benefits of Seagreens®
Seagreens® and Mercury Amalgam Detoxification
Recommended Daily Intake
Normally 2 x 500mg capsules; less for children, more in pregnancy, physical training or recuperation. Take under professional guidance in detoxing, chronic health conditions and during treatment. Best taken early every day with food.
For balanced nutritional input in the general population, recommended daily intake is 2 Food Capsules each morning or split morning and midday or evening with food, on a permanent basis, except where the subject has regular physical exertion, is pregnant or breastfeeding, recuperating from illness, or where health or immunity is exceptionally compromised, or where specific treatment is being given, when up to 4 Food Capsules or 2 grams (half teaspoon) Food Granules may be deemed appropriate for relatively short periods (eg. the duration of pregnancy).
For heavy metals and radiation detoxification up to 6 Food Capsules or 3 grams (three quarter teaspoon) Food Granules daily (e.g. Preferably split over 2 or 3 meals) for at least 8 weeks, and thereafter 2 Food Capsules or 1 gram (quarter teaspoon) Food Granules daily for up to 24 months. The dosage in pre-and post-operative dental amalgam extraction was agreed with Dr J. Levenson of the British Society for Mercury-Free Dentistry.
Where the diet is varied, contains other good quality vegetables, and the general health of the subject is good, 2 Food Capsules or 1 gram (quarter teaspoon) Food Granules daily is an adequate maintenance intake especially with the occasional use in food of Seagreens® CulinaryIngredient. In all cases, experience shows that although debility may be addressed within weeks, genuine change and improvement accrues from long term use, and usually becomes very apparent to the subject from between 6 and 12 months. Prolonged daily use rather than higher intake is the key to efficacy.
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Nutritional Profile/Ingredients - Seagreens® Food Capsules
Such a comprehensive balance of nutrients is found in no other natural food but seaweed.
From the primordial ocean to the vegetation and animals which remain our food today, our own bodily composition has its origins in the earliest organisms and the chemistry of life itself.
As life forms became increasingly diverse, they adapted to more specific diets. To survive on a narrower range of nutrients and protect themselves against toxicity, each evolved different mechanisms of selectivity and defence.
That is why we need a wide variety of land based foods, since each has a little of what we need. But nutrient loss in agricultural soils and manufactured and denatured food makes nutritional balance, especially of all the micronutrients, harder to achieve.
Almost as old as the ocean, seaweed is an outstanding whole food which complements and fills the gaps in all land food and special diets.
Food Capsules per gram (2 x 500mg capsules) provides:
Amino acids:
Alanine 0.85 mg, Arginine 0.44 mg, Asparagine 0.5 mg, Aspartic acid 1.73 mg, Cystine and Cysteine* 0.2 mg, Cystathionine 0.5 mg, Glutamic acid 1.72 mg,, Glutamine 0.5 mg, Glycine 0.78 mg, Histidine 0.25 mg, Homocysteine 0.5 mg, Hydroxyproline 0.5 mg, Isoleucine 0.57 mg, Leucine 0.97 mg, Lysine 0.71 mg, Methionine 0.2 mg, 1- Methylhistidine 0.5 mg, 3-Methylhistidine 0.5mg, Ornithine 0.5 mg, Phenylalanine 0.78 mg, Phosphoserene 0.66 mg, Proline 0.21 mg, Sarcosine 0.5 mg, Serine 0.71 mg, Taurine 0.5 mg, Threonine 0.8 mg, Tryptophan 0.17 mg, Tyrosine 0.6mg, Valine 0.74 mg. *Cysteine is a non-essential methionine amino acid derivative formed in collaboration with vitamins B6 and B12 whereas cystine, a compound formed when two amino acids form a disulfide bond, is a more stable semi-essential amino acid. Both are important in protein synthesis, detoxification and metabolism and cystine is a substrate for the cystine-glutamate cell transport by which it is readily broken down to cysteine in the cell. Normal human hair and skin contains 10-14% cystine.
Antioxidant capacity - principal antioxidant nutrients:
Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) 1685 µg, Calcium 12,600 µg, Copper 0.97 µg, Magnesium 7,907µg, Manganese (part of the antioxidant enzyme Superoxide dismutase) 95.16 µg, Polyphenols (gallic acid equivalent) 23,415.96 µg, Polyphenols (tannins) 30,358.46 µg, Potassium 22,316 µg, Selenium 0.11 µg, Superoxide dismutase 60.82 units, Vitamin A (carotenoids) 12.27 µg, Vitamin C 161.69 µg, Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) 98.21 µg, Zinc 24.45 µg.
Betaines:
Glycine Betaine trace, Gamma Amino Butyric Acid Betaine trace, Delta Amino Valeric Acid Betaine trace, TML (Laminine) trace, L-Carnitine trace, Trigonelline trace.
Carbohydrates:
546.29 mg of which total dietary fibre is 471.21 mg including non-starch polysaccharides Algin, Fucose, Fucoidan, Mannitol, Methylpentosans, Laminarin, Mannuronic acid and Chlorophyll (antioxidant). Soluble fibre is approximately 20% of total dietary fibre, insoluble 80%.
Enzymes:
Carbohydrase 26.87 units, Lipase 19.76 units, Protease 414.87 units, Superoxide dismutase 60.82 units, Uronic acid 17.35 units.
Essential fatty acids:
Alpha amino-n-butyric acid 5.33 µg, Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) (antioxidant) 1,685 µg, Beta aminoisobutyric acid 5.33 µg, Docosadienoic acid 3.33 µg, Docosapentaenoic (DPA) 13.28 µg, Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) 13.91 µg, Eicosapentenoic acid (EPA) 1,830.94 µg, EPA and DHA Omega-3 1,844.85 µg, Gamma amino-n-butyric acid 5.33 µg, Oleic acid 3,255.81 µg, Omega-3 4,520.05 µg, Omega-6 12,859.51 µg*, Omega 9 18,668.74 µg, Monounsaturated fatty acids 16,643.23 µg, Polyunsaturated fatty acids 13,163.22 µg, Saturated fatty acids 7,986.58 µg, Trans fatty acids (mono- and poly-unsaturates) 0.44 µg. *Omega 3:6 ratio 35%.
Minerals:
Calcium (antioxidant) 12.6 mg, Magnesium (antioxidant) 7.9 mg, Nitrogen 7.6 mg, Phosphorus 4.6 mg, Potassium (antioxidant) 22.3 mg, Sodium 30.5 mg, Sulphur 33.6 mg.
Polyphenols:
23,416 µg (gallic acid equivalent)
Protein:
48.52 mg
Sugars:
Fructose trace, Glucose trace, Maltose trace, Sucrose trace, Galactose trace.
Trace elements:
Antimony 0.21 µg, Barium 9.47 µg, Beryllium trace, Bismuth trace, Boron 106.81 µg, Bromine 372.66 µg, Cerium 0.43 µg, Caesium 0.02 µg, Chromium 0.41 µg, Cobalt 0.38 µg, Copper 0.97 µg, Dysprosium 0.02 µg, Erbium 0.01 µg, Europium 7.01 µg, Flouride (acid soluble) 4.02 µg, Gadolinium 0.03 µg, Gallium 0.06 µg, Germanium 0.06 µg, Gold 0.09 µg, Hafnium trace, Holmium trace, Iodine 390 µg*, Iridium 0.01 µg, Iron 370.51 µg, Lanthanum 0.21 µg, Lithium 0.6 µg, Lutetium trace, Manganese 95.16 µg, Molybdenum 0.69 µg, Neodymium 0.17 µg, Nickel 1.4 µg, Niobium trace, Osmium trace, Palladium 0.01 µg, Platinum 0.26 µg, Praeseodymium 0.05 µg, Rhenium 0.07 µg, Rubidium 7.19 µg, Ruthenium trace, Samarium 0.03 µg, Scandium 0.05 µg, Selenium 0.11 µg, Silicon** 227.63 µg, Silver 0.05 µg, Strontium 665.34 µg, Tantalum trace, Tellurium 0.05 µg, Terbium trace, Thallium trace, Thorium 0.01 µg, Thuliam 0.08 µg, Tin 0.02 µg, Titanium trace, Tungsten trace, Uranium 0.26 µg, Vanadium 2.11 µg, Ytterbium 0.01 µg, Yttrium 0.16 µg, Zinc 24.45 µg, Zirconium 0.17 µg. *For more iodine information and comparison of iodine levels in different Seagreens products see below 'Iodine levels in Seagreens® nutrition products'. **Silicon and silica are different chemical species, the key difference being that silicon is an element whereas silica is a compound. Higher levels in seaweed may indicate the coincidental collection of sand during harvesting and is indicative of low grade seaweed unlikely to have been produced to standards for human nutrition.
Vitamins:
A (carotenoids) 12.27 µg, B1 (thiamin) 0.46 µg, B2 (riboflavin) 0.21 µg, B3 (niacin or vitamin PP) 54.69 µg, B5 (pantothenic acid and calcium pantothenate) 1.64 µg, B6 (pyridoxine) 0.55 µg, B9 (folate) 0.97 µg, B12 (cobalamin) trace, C 161.69 µg, D2 (ergocalciferol) trace, D3 (cholecalciferol) trace, E (alpha-tocopherol) with all the isomers of wheat germ 98.21 µg, H (biotin or vitamin B8) 0.06 µg, K (K3 phytomenadione, K1 phylloquinone, K2 menaquinone 4 and menaquinone 7) 1.28 µg.
Iodine levels in Seagreens® nutrition products
Uptake of iodine in the body has been shown to be approximately 1/3rd of intake. Figures are average iodine levels in micrograms over two decades harvesting Seagreens®. Iodine levels fluctuate according to natural variances in species and individual uptake.
Iodine levels in Seagreens® nutrition products Product name | Intake (daily use or portion) | Uptake |
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Food Capsules x 2 (1 gram) | 390µg | 129µg |
Note: 1g (gram) = 1000mg (milligram) = 1,000,000µg (microgram)
Nutritional data reproduced by permission of the Copyright holder, Seagreens Ltd, Great Britain.