There are fakes in calcium tablets？ Go and see if your medicine cabinet is available!

At present, there are many kinds of calcium tablets on the market, but the quality is mixed. Some unscrupulous merchants even produce and sell counterfeit calcium tablets for profit. The brands of regular manufacturers are printed on the surface of these calcium tablets, but the actual calcium content is seriously insufficient.

If we buy fake calcium tablets, we will not only spend a lot of money, but also fail to achieve the effect of supplementing calcium. Therefore, how to choose calcium is very important.

Today, let’s talk about calcium tablets and teach you how to quickly distinguish between "likui jy" and "Gui Li" in calcium tablets.

Types of calcium tablets

If you want to learn to distinguish between true and false calcium tablets, you must first know calcium tablets and understand their classification.

At present, calcium tablets sold in the market are mainly divided into inorganic calcium and organic calcium.

Inorganic acid calcium: high calcium content, but low solubility, which is irritating to the stomach. People with weak gastrointestinal function may have symptoms such as gastrointestinal discomfort after taking it, resulting in low calcium absorption rate, which in turn affects the effect of calcium supplementation.

Calcium organic acid: Different from calcium inorganic acid, calcium organic acid has low calcium content, but good water solubility and is easily absorbed by human stomach.

In recent years, the third generation of organic calcium tablets has appeared, and the common products are amino acid chelated calcium, calcium glycinate, calcium L- threonate and so on. Amino acid chelated calcium not only has the advantage of high calcium content, but also does not depend on the dissociation of gastric acid and has high absorption rate, so it is an ideal calcium tablet at present [1].

How to distinguish true and false calcium tablets

Then, in the face of a dazzling array of calcium tablets, how should we identify their authenticity?

Generally speaking, you can use the following three tricks.

Check the approval number

First of all, when we buy calcium tablets, we must pay attention to the approval number on its outer packaging. Regular drug packaging will clearly show: Chinese medicine quasi-word H (or Z, S, J, B)+8 digits.

If there is no logo printed on the outer packaging, it must be a fake and shoddy product, and you can report it to the industrial and commercial bureau or the consumer association in time.

Online inquiry and verification

If you still feel uneasy after purchasing the calcium tablets approved by National Medicine, you can log in to the National Medical Products Administration database for inquiry. Enter the letters and 8 digits of the drug name or the Chinese medicine standard, and you can check whether its manufacturer, specifications and packaging information are consistent with the purchased calcium tablets.

If the purchased calcium tablets are inconsistent with the results found on the Internet or the relevant information cannot be found, it means that the purchased calcium tablets are counterfeit products.

Small experiment to distinguish true from false

In addition to the above two methods, if you buy calcium tablets with calcium carbonate as the main calcium source, you can put a few calcium tablets into an empty cup, and then add some vinegar to it to see if it can produce a lot of bubbles.

If there are few bubbles in the cup, or there are no bubbles at all, it can be concluded that it is a fake calcium tablet made of starch.

Small coup of scientific calcium supplement in daily life

Calcium tablets are good, but don’t blindly supplement calcium. Because different people have different requirements for the dosage form and quantity of calcium, and the absorption and utilization ability of calcium is also different.

For example, for pregnant women, perimenopausal period and other special groups, it is necessary to increase calcium intake scientifically and reasonably under the guidance of doctors. If you blindly supplement calcium, it may cause excessive calcium supplementation and cause harm to your body.

In addition to taking calcium supplements, you can also supplement calcium through diet and exercise in daily life. Specifically, we can start from the following five aspects.

Food tonic is better than medicine tonic.

Usually, you can eat more calcium-rich foods such as milk, cheese, soybeans, tofu, eggs, shrimp, fish, crab, kelp, seaweed, fungus, sesame and hawthorn.

Pay attention to calcium supplementation time

It is most appropriate to take calcium tablets within 1 ~ 2 hours after meals. It is not advisable to drink strong tea, coffee and alcohol before and after taking calcium tablets, otherwise it will accelerate the loss of calcium. In addition, calcium supplementation before going to bed at night is also beneficial to calcium absorption.

Avoid high-fat diet.

High-fat foods easily react with calcium to produce insoluble calcium soap, which affects the absorption of calcium.

Eat less vegetables with high oxalic acid content

Water bamboo, bamboo shoots, spinach and amaranth can form insoluble calcium oxalate with calcium, thus affecting the absorption of calcium. Therefore, people with calcium deficiency should try to avoid eating the above vegetables when supplementing calcium.

Appropriate participation in outdoor activities

Proper outdoor activities can make people get enough sunlight, so that 7- deoxycholesterol in the skin can be activated by ultraviolet rays and then converted into vitamin D3, which promotes the absorption and utilization of calcium.

In daily life, we should not only have the ability of discerning calcium tablets and distinguishing "likui jy" and "Gui Li" in calcium, but also have the knowledge of scientific calcium supplementation, so as to supplement calcium effectively and reasonably and make our bodies healthier.

Source: Health China

Editor: Zhang Yueyang

Editor: lin li and Zhang Yueyang