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Acide férulique in food supplements

5 supplements declared in France contain Acide férulique as a substance or active ingredient.

Compl'Alim declarations. Compl'Alim, food supplement declarations (France), retrieved 23 October 2026.

What we know about this ingredient

Manufacturing

  • Ferulic acid is easily prepared in large quantities from rice bran pitch, a blackish brown waste oil with high viscosity, discharged in the process of the rice bran oil production.

  • Prepared by the interaction of vanillin, malonic acid and piperidine in pyridine for 3 weeks, then precipitating with HCl

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · PMID:10625954 Taniguchi H et al; Anticancer Res 19 (5A): 3757-61(1999); O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 692.

Licence.

Use classification

  • Cosmetics -> Antimicrobial

PubChem : NORMAN Suspect List Exchange · 2026-10-29 · S13 | EUCOSMETICS | Combined Inventory of Ingredients Employed in Cosmetic Products (2000) and Revised Inventory (2006) | DOI:10.5281/zenodo.2624118.

Licence.

Uses

  • /Ferulic acid was one of several compounds identified in/ ... a survey of 624 commercially available supplements targeted towards bodybuilding athletes...

  • Food preservative

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · PMID:8446827 Grunewald KK, Bailey RS; Sports Med 15 (2): 90-103 (1993) .; O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 692.

Licence.

In plain words

À quoi il sert, selon les fabricants

Objectifs les plus souvent annoncés pour les compléments qui en contiennent (Acide férulique) : concentration (1 produit), cycles féminins (1 produit).

Ce sont les objectifs déclarés par les fabricants à l'administration, pas des effets démontrés. Sur l'emballage, seules les allégations de santé autorisées par l'Union peuvent être écrites.

Compl'Alim, food supplement declarations (France), retrieved 23 October 2026.

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