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Energy, enhancement, vitality, and stress relief in CPG products
Adaptogens are only one part of a much larger functional ingredient landscape. Caffeine, L-theanine, creatine, saffron, glycine and niacinamide, at doses and in formats that hold up in a finished product.
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Adaptogens in consumer products: seven ingredient essays and formulation briefs
The word adaptogen is useful shorthand, but it is not a guarantee of either clinical efficacy or an approved product claim. Seven ingredients, what the human evidence carries, and what a formulation can honestly say.
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