Green Coffee Bean Capsules

Green Coffee Bean Capsules are the encapsulated finished form of unroasted coffee seed extract. The bean is Coffea canephora Pierre ex A.Froehner, with Coffea arabica L. available where a buyer specifies it, taken green so that the chlorogenic acids survive - roasting degrades them, which is the entire reason this ingredient exists as an article separate from coffee. Each capsule carries a measured fill standardised to 45-50% total chlorogenic acids by HPLC. The reference marker is 5-caffeoylquinic acid, C16H18O9, MW 354.31, CAS 327-97-9, but 'total chlorogenic acids' is a family figure covering the caffeoylquinic, feruloylquinic and dicaffeoylquinic isomers together, and a specification that quotes one where it means the other is a specification that will fail incoming inspection. Two numbers decide whether a green coffee capsule is honest. The first is the assay basis. A UV reading runs materially higher than HPLC on the same material, and the two must never be quoted interchangeably or converted between with a rule of thumb. Thovek states HPLC figures on the certificate and quotes UV separately and only when a buyer asks for it. The second is caffeine. Green coffee extract carries caffeine from the bean, the amount moves with the extraction, and several markets either cap it or require a warning above a threshold - so caffeine is measured on the finished capsule and declared per capsule and per labelled daily portion rather than inferred from the extract specification. Low-caffeine and decaffeinated fills are produced where the destination market or the brand's own positioning requires them. The default shell is hypromellose, giving a vegan, vegetarian article with no bovine or porcine input; a bovine gelatin shell is available and is neither. Excipients are microcrystalline cellulose, maize maltodextrin, colloidal silicon dioxide and vegetable-source magnesium stearate, with no milk, egg, soy, fish, crustacean, nut, peanut, sesame or gluten input anywhere in the formula. Standard strengths are 400 mg and 500 mg of extract per capsule in size 0 or size 00 shells. Because the raw material is a green agricultural seed and coffee is a commodity susceptible to it, ochratoxin A is tested on every lot alongside heavy metals, pesticide residues and full microbiology. No weight or metabolic claim is made here; the composition and the analytical package are what is being sold.