Choose Gingko Biloba Products Carefully !!!

Ginkgo Biloba is well known for its benefits for brain functioning. Ginkgo Biloba is main constituent in many food supplements. But, questions have been raised regarding the authenticity of many supplements sold as Ginkgo biloba. A study published in Canada states that your Ginkgo biloba supplement may not really be what you think it is.

There are number of food supplements available in market which are mislabeled and mislead the customers about Gingko biloba and consumers may not be obtaining the products and benefits which they believe they are getting when they buy supplements. DNA bar coding was used to check the actual authenticity of popular supplements and also testing was done for the authenticity of Ginkgo biloba supplements with DNA bar coding.

Study found supplements ware mislabeled and Gingko biloba used for making supplements didn’t passed bar coding testing. Gingko biloba was adultered with inferior substitutes. Primary considerations for the mislabelling of products include the supplier incorrectly identified the plant materials or because another generally less expensive material was substituted.

This study has been published in the journal ‘Genome’ Herbal dietary supplements which are prepared from Ginkgo biloba leaves are consumed to improve cognitive capacity via improved mitochondrial function and blood perfusion. Study found via DNA barcoding that 83.8 percent of ginkgo supplements contained ginkgo.

In the supplements in which he found no evidence of ginkgo Scientist wasn't certain if that is because the DNA was destroyed perhaps by drying at very high temperatures or if the samples simply didn't contain any ginkgo at all. Hopefully the DNA barcoding method to test for authenticity of Ginkgo biloba will eventually be used by supplement manufacturers in order to ensure that their supplements actually contain Ginkgo biloba.