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Lysine in food supplements

771 supplements declared in France contain Lysine 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

Uses

  • BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES: Antialkalotic; antiherpetic; essential; hypoarginanemic

  • Biochemical and nutritional research, pharmaceuticals, culture media, fortification of foods and feed (wheat flour), nutrient and dietary supplement, animal feed additive

  • Enrichment of cereals and feeds.

  • Medical use: treatment of hypochloremia, alkalosis /lysine hydrochloride/

  • Reported uses

  • Table: Reported uses (ppm): (Flavor and Extract Manufacturers' Association) [Table#3864]

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · USDA; Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. Plants with a chosen chemical. Lysine. Washington, DC: US Dept Agric, Agric Res Service. Available from, as of August 17, 2010: https://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/; Lewis, R.J. Sr.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 15th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY 2007., p. 773; O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 977; Gerhartz, W. (exec ed.). Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. 5th ed.Vol A1: Deerfield Beach, FL: VCH Publishers, 1985 to Present., p. VA2: 86 (1985); Burdock, G.A. (ed.). Fenaroli's Handbook of Flavor Ingredients. 6th ed.Boca Raton, FL 2010, p. 1110.

Licence.

Use classification

  • Cosmetics -> Skin conditioning; Hair conditioning; Antistatic

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.

A molecule found naturally in plants or organisms; in a supplement it may be extracted from them, made by fermentation or synthesised: the declaration does not say which.

Basis: one CosIngThe European Commission's database of cosmetic ingredients. CAS and natural occurrence recorded in Wikidata (LOTUS database).

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Natural occurrence recorded in Wikidata (LOTUS database): 119 taxa; examples: Morchella angusticeps, Morchella crassipes, Citrus grandis, Citrus medica, Pinus densiflora.

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Manufacturing

  • A process combining chemical and microbiological techniques for the production of L-lysine was introduced by Toray Industries; /in this process/, alpha-amino-e-caprolactam (ACL) is formed from cyclohexanol... this intermediate is then hydrolyzed with L-ACL-hydrolase to yield L-lysine

  • Extraction of natural proteins, synthetically by fermentation of glucose or other carbohydrates and by synthesis from caprolactum

  • Isolation from acid-hydrolyzed proteins (casein, fibrin or blood corpuscle paste)

  • The usual raw material for the fermentation production of L-lysine is molasses...high performance microbes belong to the species Corynebacterium glutamicum or Brevibactrium lactofermentum

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Gerhartz, W. (exec ed.). Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. 5th ed.Vol A1: Deerfield Beach, FL: VCH Publishers, 1985 to Present., p. VA2: 71 (1985); Lewis, R.J. Sr.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 15th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY 2007., p. 773; Budavari, S. (ed.). The Merck Index - Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs and Biologicals. Rahway, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 1989., p. 887.

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Appearance

  • Colorless crystals

  • Needles from water, hexagonal plates from dilute alcohol

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Lewis, R.J. Sr.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 15th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY 2007., p. 773; O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 977.

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Taste described

  • Sweet/bitter

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Gerhartz, W. (exec ed.). Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. 5th ed.Vol A1: Deerfield Beach, FL: VCH Publishers, 1985 to Present., p. VA2: 79 (1985).

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Associated research

ClinicalTrials.gov · A trial is not proof: it tests a hypothesis.

2026-11-01

Other names: L-lysine (French), L-lysine (English).

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Same substance in cosmetics: LYSINE.

In plain words

À quoi il sert, selon les fabricants

Objectifs les plus souvent annoncés pour les compléments qui en contiennent (Lysine) : sport (252 produits), cheveux et ongles (110 produits), peau (54 produits), articulations (42 produits), immunité (42 produits).

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.

What the registers say, country by country

Each line repeats what an official register says on the date it was consulted. Not being in a register means neither allowed nor banned.

Health claims register (European Union): 0 authorised and 8 refused claim(s) for this substance.

EU Register of nutrition and health claims, retrieved 21 October 2026.

Compl'Alim ingredient list (France): listed.

Compl'Alim, reference list of ingredients, retrieved 21 October 2026.

Canada, licensed natural health products (LNHPD): 953 products.

Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD), Health Canada: licensed products, ingredients, doses, uses and risks, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Health Canada, LNHPD)

Licence du gouvernement ouvert – Canada 2.0 (OGL-Canada 2.0)

United States, supplement labels (DSLD; supplements need no prior approval): 1330 products.

Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD), US National Institutes of Health: current and off-market labels, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Source: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Dietary Supplement Label Database (CC0); US market labels.

Declared daily quantities

Declared daily quantities: Lysine
UnitProductsMedianMinimumMaximum
mg1334800.0097,400

Calculated from Compl'Alim declarations that provide a quantity. These are quantities declared by manufacturers, not measurements, and preparation is not distinguished (powder, extract of varying concentration): differences between products can be very large.

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