PROPER STORAGE OF SUPPLEMENTS
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Do you know that because supplements to maintain their effectiveness over time you need to follow some basic rules of conservation?
Store supplements rules:
1) in a dry and dry, at a temperature not exceeding 30 °, away from heat sources
2) in the original packaging
3) tightly closed
4) not later than the expiration date
Suffice it to one week of storage in a humid environment to lose nutritional supplements and vitamins all their power. Word of Lisa Maure, a researcher at Purdue University. Even the bottles with lids tightly closed are saved by the process that disperses nutrients, called deliquescence.
"Opening and closing a package in a humid environment modifies the micro-climate inside," says Maure in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. One tablet of vitamin C thereby risk losing within 7 days its full potential if stored in dry environments. The signs to recognize the deterioration are crystals, brown spots and traces of liquid in the bottom of the cans.
Do not worry, though: "detuned supplements are not bad for your health - says Purdue - but why take them if they do not work?"