Replies to post #14051 on Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals Inc. (fka RCPIQ)

[Regis999]

"You couldn't eat enough vegetables and fruit to get the amount of nutrients to be equivalent to even one Anatabloc lozenge. What you need to be selling is JUICE!"

That is why the last sentence is ridiculous. Someone made the following calculation:

13.38 Pounds of Fried Green Tomatoes

I know. It sounds like a movie sequel. Well, here's this: I went through it thinking I needed it today. For all those times (like in the "reviews") when someone says "I'll just eat lots of vegetables".

With regard to people who eat considerable solanaceae vegetables not needing to supplement, this just does NOT compute.

YOU CAN'T ... NO WAY ... get a meaningful amount of anatabine from vegetables.

Here's why:

From the company's own scientific literature is this I have excerpted about how much anatabine occurs in non-tobacco vegetables.


The Sponsor conducted a survey of commercial food plants [meaning vegetables, not manufacturing facilities], finding the highest minor alkaloid levels in green tomatoes, at a concentration of ... 16.5 µg/100g for anatabine.



So let's find out how much green tomato one would have to eat a day to get the equivalent of ONE Anatabloc.

Each Anatabloc contains 1mg = 1000mcg of anatabine. From above, one gets 16.5mcg of anatabine from each 100g of green tomatoes.

I divide 1000 by 16.5 to see how many 100g servings of green tomatoes I need to eat to get "an Anatabloc" worth of anatabine.

1000/16.5 = 60.6

So to get one Anatabloc's worth of anatabine I must eat 60.6 100gm servings of green tomatoes. So I must eat 60.6 x 100g = 6060g of green tomatoes for one Anatabloc's worth of anatabine.



There are approx 28.3 grams in each ounce, so I divide 6060g by 28.3. 6060/28.3 = 214 ounces of green tomatoes I must eat to get "an Anatabloc". FOLKS, there are 16 oz per pound, so 214oz/16 = 13.38 POUNDS.

Yes, folks, if you want one Anatabloc per day from the HIGHEST vegetable source, you'll have to eat 13.38 POUNDS OF GREEN TOMATOES A DAY. And they will make you VERY sick ... unless you fry or pickle them all, and probably even then ('cause you can't eat 13+ pounds of anything in a day).