Comment · Mon, June 27, 2022 · ND Owner
Lab Testing Results: Dried Parsley
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MisterYouAreSoDumb · 88 points
So about a month ago there was a discussion about dried parsley and how it was a superior apigenin supplement.
You can see that some studies were linked talking about how much apigenin was in dried parsley. Some of the higher numbers seemed unlikely to me, but I figure the only way to really know would be to test it ourselves in the lab. My lab director went to Fry's Food And Drug here in town, and we purchased Kroger brand dried parsley. The hunt for apigenin was on!
Here is the product in question: https://imgur.com/a/CD7Gc1e
I want to preface this by saying I am making no qualitative claims to the efficacy of Kroger's dried parsley flakes. I know some people may have had good results from consuming an entire can of these flakes, and I don't want to discount their experiences. Neither Fry's Food nor the Kroger corporation participated in this research. I've had these results for a few weeks, but I have held off on releasing…
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LetsGetGon · 3 points
It would be interesting to try fresh parsley or a higher quality source of dried. What was the concentration of the baicalin? Thanks for doing this, I was part of that discussion!
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
I bet we will see a lot of variability from batch to batch with fresh and dried parsley. Nobody is standardizing these things, so there is no process to control it. They are selling it as a spice, so they don't care what the concentration of apigenin is.
We didn't calculate the other flavones, because that would require preparing and injecting standard, then doing all the math. My lab team really is stretched thin right now, so I don't want to pull them away from things we need done simply for curiosity.