EVENING PRIMROSE OIL 1000mg

• Evening primrose oil.
• Cold filtered natural oil.
• 10% Gamma-Linolenic acid GLA.
• Source of polyunsaturated Omega 6 fatty acids.
• With vitamin E.

What is Evening Primrose Oil 1000mg?

Evening Primrose Oil 1000mg by EssentialSeries is a food supplement in softgel pearls, made from lipid extract of seeds of the Oenothera BiennisL. plant and D-Alpha-tocopherol, a natural form of vitamin E.

Oenothera Biennis L., better known as Common Evening Primrose, is an indigenous European plant, naturalised in North America, that has attracted a lot of interest in the scientific community for its nutritional composition, particularly the oil contained in its seeds (WHO, 2002).

Why take Evening Primrose Oil 1000mg?

Evening primrose oil contains natural mono- and polyunsaturated lipids.

A review of the chemical constituents of evening primrose oil by the World Health Organization shows that:

The main constituents are linoleic acid (cis-linoleic acid, omega-6) (65-80%), gamma-linolenic acid (cis-γ-linolenic acids) (8-14%), oleic acid (6-11%), palmitic acid (7-10%) and stearic acid (1.5-3.5%). Other constituents include sterols and triterpenic (Several sources cited in WHO, 2002).

Applications of Evening Primrose

Evening primrose is a classic botanical compound of traditional medicine native to the places it has been cultivated and harvested for centuries, which is why it holds a prominent place in the pharmacopoeias of several European and non-European countries.

Evening primrose fatty acids

The standard fatty acid composition of Evening primrose seeds has been previously determined based on indications in the World Health Organization's plant monographs.

Our evening primrose oil 1000mg is a preparation standardised in gamma-linolenic acid, a fatty acid that has been well determined by the European Food Safety Authority (2011) and characterised as:

'GLA is a n-6 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid which is present in small amounts in a variety of foods of both plant and animal origin and which can also be synthesised in the human body from its precursor linoleic acid (LA)' (EFSA NDA, 2011).

Evening primrose contains this fatty acid in its composition (WHO, 2002).

Source of vitamin E

2mg of vitamin E per pearl have been used, meaning it's a product with a high content of the vitamin.

Why Buy Evening Primrose Oil from HSN?

Top quality oil

Our evening primrose oil product only contains oil from this plant in its composition.

Other products on the market have been developed with alternative sources of polyunsaturated fatty acids in their composition, usually by supplementing the product with other vegetable oils.

A raw material of excellent quality to obtain the best oil contained in your seeds.

Standardised to 10% GLA

The content of gamma-linolenic acid, one of the fatty acids that constitute the main chemical compounds present in evening primrose oil according to the WHO, has been standardised to 10%.

Standardising the content of the product implies a strict quality control of the product development process, which involves a stage of determination of the bioactives by chromatographic quantification techniques

100mg of gamma-linolenic acid guaranteed for every evening primrose oil 1000mg capsule!

With Vitamin E

Vitamin E has been added to the product, to add to its well-established biological effects (EFSA NDA, 2010)

Because its chemical profile as an antioxidant it contributes to the prevention of lipid degradation due to oxidative stress generated by external aggressions (such as heat or oxygen).

The addition of vitamin E to an oil predominantly composed of polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are more susceptible to peroxidisation, protects the product and its composition by preserving it for longer without becoming rancid.

How do you take Evening Primrose Oil 1000mg?

Take one veg capsule, twice a day, with meals.

What products can you combine with Evening Primrose Oil 1000mg?

This product goes great with HSN products like:

• Ultra Omega-3 1000mg.
• Astaxanthin 8mg.
• Inositol 500mg.
• Hemp seed oil 500mg.

Bibliographic references

• World Health Organization WHO. (2002). WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants. Génova, Italia: World Health Organisation.
• EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, N. and A. (NDA). (2010). Scientific Opinion on the substantiation of health claims related to vitamin E pursuant to Article 13(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. EFSA Journal, 8(10), 1816.
• EFSA Panel on Dietetic Products, N. and A. (NDA). (2011). Scientific Opinion on the substantiation of health claims related to gamma linolenic acid (GLA) pursuant to Article 13(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006. EFSA Journal, 9(4), 2059.