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Consumers need to know that the marketplace is full of imitations, offshoots and derivatives of scientifically proven and patented natural products. Those who are looking for a product that will produce the proven results and not just the "claimed" or "implied" results, want the authentic product that was used in the actual scientific research. This is especially important when you buy a product labeled as "grape seed extract" or "pine bark extract." "OPC" and "Proanthocyanidins"
are When reading product labels, magazine articles and many popular books, the terms "OPC" and "proanthocyanidins" should be considered as generic words and not scientific whatsoever. In most cases, the terms are used as equivalent to "grape seed extract" or "pine bark extract" for commercial interests—or by mistake—and their differences have truly lost all scientific meaning. For example, independent testing found no active OPCs (oligomeric proanthocyanidins) in a leading American brand of grape seed extract—even though it's aggressively marketed and branded as an OPC product.
Unfortunately, many companies have used Dr. Jack Masquelier’s name and research in unauthorized ways to promote illegitimate extracts. There are many, many suppliers of grape seed and pine bark extracts who use various and unproven manufacturing processes, which leads to widespread differences in products labeled at "grape seed extract" or "pine bark extract" in the marketplace. Together with widespread confusion and misunderstanding as to the differences between vague "extracts" and their active principles, it's practically impossible for retailers and consumers to distinguish inferior products from quality ones. Flavay® is the Name You Can Trust
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| The International Nutrition Company
Special Report, "Pine vs. Pine Comparative Analysis between Masquelier's
Original Pine Bark OPCs and another leading brand pine bark extract,"
Oc. 1998. PhytoChem Technologies, Inc., Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Ju. 1998. The International Nutrition Company Special Report,"Masquelier's Original OPCs and ten grape seed extracts; an independent, reproducible state-of-the-art comparative analysis," No. 1997. Masquelier, J. Plant extract with a proanthocyanidins content as a therapeutic agent having radical scavenging effect and use thereof. U.S. Patent No. 4,698,360, 1987. Masquelier, J. A lifetime devoted to OPC and pycnogenol. Alfa Omega Editrice, Pub., 1996. Schwitters, B., Masquelier, J. OPC in practice. Alfa Omega Editrice, Publishers, 1995. |
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