ConsumerLab.com
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Thirteen of 18 soy and red clover dietary supplements contain amount of isoflavones listed on labeling, online testing firm reports Aug. 15. Remaining five products contain 50%-80% of declared amount. Discrepancy likely due to isoflavones' natural tendency to bind to sugar molecules, ConsumerLab says, asserting as much as 40%-50% of claimed isoflavones in failed products "may really be sugar." Passing products include McNeil's Healthy Woman Soy Menopause Supplement, Pharmavite's Nature Made Soy 50, Novogen's Promensil Non-GMO
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