Guides
In the Scheunengut guide, we explain vitamins, minerals, plant compounds and dietary supplements clearly and with a solid scientific grounding – from correct intake to the right product for you. Use the search or the topic filters to quickly find what you need.
Alpha-GPC: Choline Source, Benefits, and How to Take It
Alpha-GPC is showing up more and more often in nootropic formulas, pre-workout products, and choline supplements — and many people wonder what's actually behind the unwieldy name. The compound is...
Acerola: Natural Vitamin C and How to Use It
Few fruits are mentioned in the same breath as vitamin C as often as acerola. This small, bright red cherry from the tropics is one of the richest known food...
Buying Nattokinase: FU Activity & What to Look For
Nattokinase has become a sought-after topic among dietary supplements in recent years. The enzyme comes from the traditional Japanese food natto and is now offered in capsule form. Anyone looking...
Buying Chasteberry: Vitex Extract & What to Look For
Chasteberry (Vitex agnus-castus) is one of the most traditional plants in the context of women's health and is offered today in many dietary supplements — as an extract capsule, as...
Vitamin C & OPC Combined: The Antioxidant Duo
Anyone who looks into antioxidants sooner or later comes across two names that turn up together strikingly often: vitamin C and OPC. One is a classic, well-researched vitamin, the other...
Buying Milk Thistle: Silymarin Content & What to Look For
Milk thistle is one of the best-known plants on the dietary supplement shelf, and that's precisely why the choice can feel so confusing. Between a cheap powder and a highly...
Buying L-Carnitine: Forms & What to Look For
If you're looking to buy L-carnitine, you'll quickly run into a confusing range of choices: powders and capsules, different forms like tartrate or acetyl-L-carnitine, plus wide price differences and brand...
Combining Turmeric and Omega-3: What Actually Matters
Turmeric and omega-3 tend to show up together in guides, forums, and on store shelves. If you're looking into a balanced diet and sensible supplementation, you'll run into both fairly...
Buying Garlic Extract: Black Garlic & What to Look For
Garlic is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the kitchen – and in concentrated form as a capsule, powder, or fermented product, it's now a popular food supplement. If...
Buying Pomegranate Extract: Ellagic Acid & What to Look For
Pomegranate extract is one of those supplements where the label claims vary wildly from brand to brand. One manufacturer advertises an extract ratio of 45:1, the next states an ellagic...
Buying Ginseng: Ginsenosides, Origin & What to Look For
Ginseng is one of the oldest plants in traditional East Asian herbal medicine, and today it is available as capsules, powder, extract, or whole root. That very variety is what...
Buying Artichoke: Extract, Cynarin & What to Look For
The artichoke is one of the most traditional cultivated plants of the Mediterranean region and is now found as an extract in many dietary supplements. Anyone wanting to buy an...
Buying Alpha-Lipoic Acid: R-ALA & What to Look For
Anyone looking to buy alpha-lipoic acid quickly runs into a confusing range of choices: capsules, powders, different forms, and widely varying prices. Terms like R-ALA, racemic, or sodium R-ALA appear...
Buying Probiotics: Strains, CFU & What to Look For
The market for products containing live bacterial cultures has become difficult to navigate: capsules, powders, and drops advertise high numbers, exotic strain names, and plenty of promises. Anyone looking to...
Buying Potassium: Forms, Dosage & What to Look For
Potassium is one of the most important minerals in the body and is present in almost every cell. Anyone considering a potassium supplement quickly runs into plenty of questions: which...
Buying Vitamin E: Natural vs. Synthetic & What to Look For
Vitamin E is one of the best-known fat-soluble vitamins – and countless products sit side by side on the shelf, from the cheap capsule to the high-dose complex. But the...
Buying a Multivitamin: Worth It? Forms & What to Look For
The shelves are full of them, and the promises sound tempting: a single product that covers your complete vitamin needs. But before you buy a multivitamin, it's worth taking an...
Buying Glucosamine & Chondroitin: What to Look For
Glucosamine and chondroitin are among the best-known ingredients in the supplement world and often appear together in a single product – frequently rounded out with MSM or collagen. Anyone approaching...
Iron Bisglycinate or Iron Sulfate? Tolerability & Comparison
Anyone looking into iron supplements quickly runs into two names: iron sulfate and iron bisglycinate. One is the tried-and-tested, budget-friendly classic — the other a modern, more stomach-friendly alternative. But...
Buying Calcium: Forms, Dosage & What to Look For
Calcium is the mineral most people think of first when it comes to bones – and at the same time one of the most commonly mis-bought. That's because the number...
Buying Resveratrol: Trans-Resveratrol & What to Look For
Resveratrol is one of the best-known plant compounds in the supplement world – not least because it's such a hot topic in conversations about healthy ageing, or “longevity”. But if...
Buying Quercetin: Bioavailability & What to Look For
Quercetin is one of the best-known flavonoids and is found in onions, apples, capers and green tea. As a dietary supplement, it's usually sold at high doses – but the...
Buying Melatonin: Dosage, Forms & What to Look For
Melatonin is one of the most sought-after products when it comes to evening routines and falling asleep. In shops, you'll find it as tablets, spray, drops, capsules or gummies -...
Buying Hyaluronic Acid: Molecular Weight & What to Look For
Today, hyaluronic acid can be found as capsules, powder, or drinking ampoules in almost every drugstore and countless online shops – often with very different prices and specifications. That's exactly...
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