Comment · Fri, October 9, 2020 · ND Owner
🔬 Curowhite and the Color of Curcumin 🔬
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MisterYouAreSoDumb · 62 points
We have been getting a lot of confusion and questions on the color of Curowhite on our Facebook page, so I figured I would make a post here to address it. I am sure some people here are curious as well. To start, one of the major questions we have been getting is whether Curowhite is bleached to get rid of the color. I think many people are unaware of just how color works, which is why many people immediately jump to what they have experienced before. Many people have seen how chlorine bleach gets rid of color, so they fall back to that. I'll go through the details to clear things up.
What is color? Well color is simply our eyes interpreting the wavelengths of light being reflected back to us from an object. If an object is white, that means that the entire spectrum of visible light is being reflected back to our eyes. If we were to take out part of that spectrum before it reflected back to our eyes, we would see it as a specific color. In curcumin's case, we take out the blue hues, which means our eyes see the curcumin as orange. If we remove all wavelengths, we see black. It's all just our eyes interpreting the wavelengths of light being reflected back to us by objects.
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cristobaldelicia · 4 points
As a "layman", I came to learn the vast majority of pure substances, when they can be made into powders at room temperature, are white. This is after hearing many, many lame jokes about how my supplements look like cocaine and I better be careful bringing it anyplace where bringing illegal substances would be suspect. Actually there's a great deal of truth to that, which is what makes them funny in the first place, I guess. I'm trying to get my mom to try curowhite because her joint pain is greatly diminished by curcumin supplements, but her stomach is too sensitive for piperine.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Yeah, many pure powders are white. It gets even more complicated with crystal structure, though. I didn't touch on that in the post above. The crystal structure of the powder can affect its color as well, without having a conjugated pi system.