Men's sports capsule blend (ashwagandha, fenugreek, zinc, magnesium)

This is a finished dosage form rather than a raw material: a hard capsule carrying a dry-blended matrix of two standardised botanicals and four nutrient actives. The botanical side is root-only ashwagandha extract, Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal (Solanaceae), standardised to 2.5% or 5% total withanolides, together with fenugreek seed extract, Trigonella foenum-graecum L. (Fabaceae), standardised on total furostanolic saponins or, where the buyer prefers, on 4-hydroxyisoleucine. Insist on the assay method in writing for both: gravimetric and HPLC withanolide figures are not interchangeable, and a 5% gravimetric result and a 5% HPLC result describe materially different goods. Root-only material is specified deliberately, because leaf and root-plus-leaf extracts carry a different withanolide profile and meet different market acceptance. The nutrient side is where the defensible label copy comes from. Zinc is supplied as bisglycinate or citrate and magnesium the same, with vitamin B6 as pyridoxine hydrochloride and vitamin D3 as cholecalciferol (CAS 67-97-0, C27H44O, 384.65 g/mol, 1 IU = 0.025 microgram). Under EU Regulation 432/2012 zinc carries the authorised function claim 'contributes to the maintenance of normal testosterone levels in the blood' and vitamin B6 carries 'contributes to the regulation of hormonal activity', both conditional on the finished product being a significant source of the nutrient. Magnesium carries authorised claims on normal muscle function, normal protein synthesis and normal energy-yielding metabolism. No health claim is authorised in the EU for either botanical - botanical claims remain on hold - and India, the US and the Gulf states each handle this differently, so claim strategy is the brand owner's responsibility and has to be set market by market. Dose the magnesium against the tighter ceiling in your target market: the US tolerable upper intake level for supplemental magnesium is 350 mg/day, EFSA's is 250 mg/day. Two declarations decide whether this product can carry the label a buyer wants, and both are set at order, not afterwards. First, the capsule shell: HPMC as standard, which is vegan, vegetarian and free of bovine and porcine input, with a bovine gelatin shell available on request - a gelatin shell ends any vegan claim and brings a bovine origin declaration with it. Second, the vitamin D3: lanolin-derived cholecalciferol comes from sheep wool and is vegetarian but not vegan, while lichen-derived cholecalciferol is vegan and costs more. Beyond those, fenugreek must be declared plainly on downstream labels - it is a legume, and allergy to it is documented, including in people allergic to peanut or chickpea. There is no milk, egg, soy, fish, crustacean, gluten or tree nut input in the standard build.