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Desiccated Beef Liver and Beef Organ Supplements: Nutrition & Safety
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Desiccated beef liver supplements contain beef liver that has been dried and ground into powder. The supplements provide the micronutrients found in fresh liver in a more concentrated form that, for some people, may be more palatable (Duizer, J Food Sci 2017). However, the nutrient content of desiccated beef liver supplements varies from product to product.
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Note that desiccated beef liver is not the same as beef liver extract, which had been used prior to the discovery of vitamin B-12 to treat a type of anemia caused by a lack of that vitamin (Girdwood, Edinb Med J 1950; Blackburn, Br Med J 1952).
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Lyudmyla19821
June 23, 2024It seems to me,that consuming 2 pills daily for a week increased my weight by 3 pounds
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cynthia18538
January 28, 2024I have used non-defatted desiccated liver powder almost every day for 50+ years, about a tablespoon. Unlike b-vitamin tablets, desiccated liver powder gives me energy and helps me to feel good. I have never had the slightest bad result from using it, and all my blood tests are normal.
jessica19250
April 10, 2024Which brand do you use?
Thank you!
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Faisal14000
September 26, 2023I have been taking the One Earth Health brand. It's cheaper than Ancestral Supplements and Heart & Soil but using the same New Zealand source and seeing wonderful results. More energy and better skin!
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Susana13990
September 16, 2020Did you perform an assay on the non-defatted desiccated beef liver products (Ancestral Supplements and, briefly mentioned, Vital Protein), consult a third-party, or is the list of nutrients provided by the manufacturers themselves? Just curious. Ancestral Supplements tends to promote the beef liver product above everything else in their product line, and routinely tells people that we DO tend to be deficient in (real) vitamin A (when customers raise concerns about hypervitaminosis).
(I use a few Ancestral Supplement products and the manufacturer sent me the grassfed beef liver for free. They reassured me that the vitamin A levels are not just safe but needed. I did not have any direct adverse side effects from using the product--just the one bottle--but I worried about loading up too much on vitamin A in particular. The bottle does not provide information on the vitamin, mineral, amino acid content.)
ConsumerLab.com
September 28, 2020The list of nutrients shown above is what is provided by the manufacturer on their website. We have provided links to these websites for each product discussed in the answer above. Briefly, the amount of vitamin A in a daily serving of the product you have been taking provides well over the amount of vitamin A that is typically recommended for people to get each day, but the amount is still below what is considered unsafe for most adults. However, the amount of vitamin A in these supplements may be a concern for certain people (see the Concerns and Cautions section of our Vitamin A Supplements Review for more information: https://www.consumerlab.com/reviews/vitamin-a-retinol-beta-carotene-cod-liver-oil/vitamin-a/#cautions).
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