{"product_id":"garcinia-cambogia-multi-90-vegan-capsules","title":"Garcinia Cambogia Multi","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith Chromium \u0026amp; Green Coffee Bean · 90 Capsules\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEach capsule provides\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eChromium\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e100μg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e250%\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*NRV = Nutrient Reference Value\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAlso provides\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGarcinia Cambogia\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e260mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGreen Coffee**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1500mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCinnamon**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e399mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWhite Kidney Bean**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e200mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBamboo**\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e200mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGlucomannan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e100mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eConjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12mg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e** = Equivalent weight from extract\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe bottle, in your hand\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLooking for garcinia cambogia? Here is ours: Garcinia Cambogia Multi (With Chromium \u0026amp; Green Coffee Bean, 90 Capsules), made in the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA clean cream pot with the green band of our label. Ninety vegan capsules — about a month and a half at the recommended one-to-four-a-day. The dose is taken thirty minutes before meals, which is the traditional time for a souring agent in any cuisine that uses one — before the meal, not during, because the function is appetite-orienting rather than mid-meal flavouring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA note up front: this product \u003cstrong\u003econtains caffeine\u003c\/strong\u003e (about 1.5mg per capsule, which is small but real, from the green coffee extract). It is \u003cstrong\u003enot recommended for children or pregnant women\u003c\/strong\u003e. If you're sensitive to coffee, take it earlier in the day rather than late.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eGarcinia cambogia — the kokum tree\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe garcinia tree (\u003cem\u003eGarcinia gummi-gutta\u003c\/em\u003e in modern Latin) is a small evergreen with dark glossy leaves, growing up to twelve metres tall, native to the Western Ghats of India and parts of Southeast Asia. The fruit is the size of a small orange and looks, when ripe, like a yellow-green pumpkin in miniature — five or six longitudinal lobes running from stem to base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Konkani-speaking coastal Karnataka the dried rind is called \u003cem\u003eaamsul\u003c\/em\u003e. In Marathi, \u003cem\u003ekokum\u003c\/em\u003e. Down the Malabar coast in Kerala, it's \u003cem\u003ekudampuli\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003efish tamarind\u003c\/em\u003e. In Sri Lanka, \u003cem\u003egoraka\u003c\/em\u003e. The ingredient changes name every two hundred kilometres of coastline, but the function stays the same: a souring agent for fish, for prawns, for lentil curries, for the smoked-fish dish \u003cem\u003emeen vevichathu\u003c\/em\u003e that defines a Keralan home kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou dry the rind in the sun, sometimes smoked, until it darkens and stiffens. To use it, you tear off a piece and drop it whole into the simmering pot. After half an hour the curry has acquired the soft, fruity sourness that is unmistakably garcinia — different from lemon (sharper), different from tamarind (more puckery), different from vinegar (more aromatic).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe compound that gives the rind its sour bite is \u003cstrong\u003ehydroxycitric acid\u003c\/strong\u003e — an organic acid related to the citric acid in citrus fruit. We use 260mg of garcinia whole-fruit powder per capsule. We are not making any specific claims about what this does. We are saying it is a long-traditioned culinary plant and we have included it in this formula at a meaningful dose, exactly as you would find it in the right curry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eGreen coffee — the bean before it was roasted\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoffee, before it is roasted, is green. The green bean carries a much higher concentration of a compound called \u003cstrong\u003echlorogenic acid\u003c\/strong\u003e than the roasted bean does — heat breaks chlorogenic acid down. So \u003cem\u003egreen\u003c\/em\u003e coffee extract isn't a different plant; it's the same plant, taken at a different point in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe use a substantial dose: \u003cstrong\u003e1,500mg equivalent weight\u003c\/strong\u003e of green coffee bean from concentrated extract per capsule. Coffee, of course, has its own long history — from the Ethiopian highlands where the legend of the goat-herd Kaldi places its discovery, through Yemeni Sufi monasteries where it became a religious aid against drowsiness, through Ottoman coffeehouses, through the European Enlightenment, into the morning kitchen of nearly every household on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe chlorogenic acid in green coffee belongs to the polyphenol family — the same broad family of plant compounds you'd find in dark berries, in red wine grape skins, in green tea leaves. The caffeine content of a single capsule is about 1.5mg — for context, an espresso has roughly a hundred milligrams. Not enough to keep you awake. Enough that we mention it on the label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCinnamon — the spice that earned an empire\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCinnamon (\u003cem\u003eCinnamomum cassia\u003c\/em\u003e, in this formula) is the inner bark of a small evergreen tree, peeled and dried into the curls you'd recognise from any spice rack. We use 399mg of cinnamon per capsule, equivalent weight from extract.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe history of cinnamon is the history of the spice trade itself. Ancient Egyptians used it in embalming and as a perfume. Mediaeval Arab merchants, who controlled the supply, told European buyers elaborate stories about giant birds carrying it from the nests of distant cliffs — anything to keep the source secret. When Portuguese ships reached Sri Lanka in the 1500s, they discovered the truth: cinnamon was the bark of a small tree, and the people who had been growing it for two thousand years had simply chosen not to share where.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn supplement form cinnamon has earned its place because of the polyphenol profile in the bark — the same broad family of compounds we keep returning to in this formula.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhite kidney bean — the lectin and the legume\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhite kidney bean (\u003cem\u003ePhaseolus vulgaris\u003c\/em\u003e) at 200mg per capsule. The white kidney bean is the bean of a thousand European peasant kitchens — the \u003cem\u003ecannellini\u003c\/em\u003e of Tuscany, the \u003cem\u003eharicot blanc\u003c\/em\u003e of France, the bean in a slow-cooked Boston baked dish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reason it appears in supplement form rather than as a soup is that the bean contains a specific protein, \u003cstrong\u003ephaseolamin\u003c\/strong\u003e, which has been studied for decades as a digestive interactor with starches. We don't make claims about what it does. We do say: the bean is a long-traditioned food, the protein is well-known, and a 200mg extract dose is a sensible inclusion in a formula like this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBamboo — the silica plant\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e200mg of bamboo extract (\u003cem\u003eBambusa vulgaris\u003c\/em\u003e) per capsule. Bamboo earns its place for one specific reason: it is one of the highest natural sources of plant silica on the planet. Silica is the trace mineral that contributes to connective tissue — the framework that holds skin, hair, nails and the linings of joints together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe don't make EFSA claims about silica. We include the bamboo because it is the cleanest plant-derived silica source and because, in a formula about plants and balance, a quiet trace mineral background earns a seat at the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eGlucomannan — the konjac root\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e100mg of glucomannan per capsule, from the konjac plant (\u003cem\u003eAmorphophallus konjac\u003c\/em\u003e) — a soft, fibrous root that has been a Japanese kitchen ingredient for fifteen hundred years. In Japan it becomes \u003cem\u003ekonnyaku\u003c\/em\u003e, a slightly translucent jelly that is one of the basic ingredients of \u003cem\u003eoden\u003c\/em\u003e hot-pot. The shirataki noodles in your last bowl of ramen — the slightly bouncy near-translucent ones — are made from konjac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGlucomannan is a soluble fibre. In the gut it absorbs many times its own weight in water. The texture of \u003cem\u003ekonnyaku\u003c\/em\u003e is exactly that absorption working in the bowl. As a fibre, it has a long traditional association with the digestive sense of fullness that comes from a bowl of well-cooked vegetables.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(One small \u003cstrong\u003esafety note\u003c\/strong\u003e — anyone using glucomannan-containing capsules should drink plenty of water with them. The fibre absorbs water; without enough water, that's not a happy combination. The label warns about choking risk for people with swallowing difficulties.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCLA — conjugated linoleic acid, the dairy fat\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12mg of conjugated linoleic acid per capsule. CLA is a particular kind of fatty acid found mostly in the milk and meat of grass-fed cattle and sheep — which is why traditional dairy-eating cultures (Alpine, Scottish Highland, Anatolian, Indian) get more of it than modern grain-fed-beef-and-margarine ones do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote for vegans: this product \u003cstrong\u003econtains milk-derived CLA\u003c\/strong\u003e. The label flags this in its allergy advice. Suitable for vegetarians, not for strict vegans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eChromium — the trace mineral\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e100µg of chromium per capsule (250% of the UK Nutrient Reference Value) — the only ingredient in this formula on which we can speak with the precision of an authorised nutrition statement. Chromium is a trace mineral that \u003cstrong\u003econtributes to the maintenance of normal blood glucose levels\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003econtributes to normal macronutrient metabolism\u003c\/strong\u003e. Those are EFSA-authorised wordings — the careful, label-accurate way of saying that chromium plays a role in how the body processes the carbohydrates and fats in a meal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow to use it\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne capsule, two to four times per day, taken thirty minutes before meals. Drink water alongside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you're new to caffeine sensitivity, start with one capsule before breakfast and skip the late-evening dose — the small amount of caffeine adds up across four capsules.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDon't take it pregnant or breastfeeding. Not for children. If you're on prescription medication — particularly anything affecting blood sugar — speak to your GP first, especially given the chromium content. Anyone with swallowing difficulties should not take glucomannan-containing capsules.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHonest caveats\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a food supplement — it complements a varied diet, it doesn't replace one, and it certainly doesn't replace home cooking, time on your feet, or sleep. Contains caffeine (1.5mg per capsule). Contains milk (CLA). Halal-approved, Kosher-approved, vegetarian-friendly, not strict-vegan-friendly because of the dairy CLA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've read this far, thank you. We've tried to write the kind of page we'd want to read about a fruit that has been heavily oversold to us by other people for years. The truth is simpler and, we think, more interesting: kokum is a real coastal-Indian souring spice, green coffee is a beautiful unroasted bean, cinnamon was once worth more than gold, and chromium plays a quiet role in how a meal becomes you. Eight ingredients, one capsule, taken before meals, the way a proper bitter or sour was always taken before meals — to wake the system up, gently, before you eat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Vitadefence\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vitadefence®","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57112213422460,"sku":"sku-51714938798346","price":16.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/9317\/8236\/files\/Garcinia_Cambogia_v6_SN006_3pp_-_1_panel_FP200ML_front.png?v=1782463508","url":"https:\/\/leanandhealthy.myshopify.com\/products\/garcinia-cambogia-multi-90-vegan-capsules","provider":"Lean \u0026 Healthy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}