Comment · Tue, March 10, 2026 · ND Owner
how legitimate is a 22 percent Eurycomanones in a tongkat ali supplement?
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kusomisoyaranaika · 12 points
I have been a loyal Nootropics Depot customer (especially their Tongkat Ali) for close to a decade and I know how most suppliers of tongkat ali supplements have negligible eurycomanone content. Refer to: https://nootropicsdepot.com/articles/what-you-need-to-know-about-tongkat-ali-extracts/
Therefore, when a supplement company from my side of the world (Southeast Asia where Tongkat Ali is produced) is claiming to have a standardised 22 percent eurycomanone product at 20 USD per bottle, I am a little skeptical. I am just wondering whether do you think the logistics/price point checks out? Is this a legitimate brand? Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Total and complete horseshit. 100:1 is a lie. Anyone using it is committing consumer fraud. Do not trust anyone in the market claiming to sell 100:1 or 200:1 Tongkat. It's all lies. You should immediately write off every product from any brand that makes that claim.
Could you make a 22% eurycomanone extract? In theory, maybe. However, in practice absolutely not. Eurycomanone is a bioactive marker compound. It's the most prevalent quassinoid in Tongkat, but it is not the only one. Our 10% eurycomanone extract has around 20% total quassinoids when you add them all up. A 22% extract would have around 50% quassinoids. You could do that in theory, but you would likely need to use column chromatography to do it. It would also be ungodly expensive. No bottle would be sold for $20. It would seriously be like a $150 bottle.
If you get us a bottle, we can run it through the labs to see the concentration. My money is on less than 0.5% eurycomanone.