Most Ephedra Diet Pills Do Not Contain Ephedrine – How Can You Tell?
Ephedra Diet Pills: What is on the Label? Look very carefully at how the key ingredient from a popular ephedra diet pill product appears on the supplement facts label: Ephedra extract (25 mg) This has become a common way for this ingredient to be listed ever since the FDA got involved in regulating the availability of ephedrine. However, this ingredient does not tell you whether it contains ephedrine. Otherwise it would clearly state how much the product actually contains in milligrams. In fact, an ingredient listed this way almost certainly contains no ephedrine at all. The ephedra extract is probably from a species that does not contain actual ephedrine. The main reason that this is so misleading is that ephedra is a botanical name for about 40 different species of plants. They naturally produce a specific class of natural products called alkaloids. Most of them contain very low levels of alkaloids and little or no ephedrine. This includes all American species. How to Tell Whether a
