Removing it from sunlight is the easiest solution. I mean what do you guys live in, a glass house? And I think the reason supplements tend not to come in clear bottles has more to do with the legibility of print and the unsightliness of capsules. The labels tend to match the color scheme on the bottles
The body is pretty good at recycling and conserving riboflavin. If you start having problems, make a minor change in your diet and no more problems
Hello GamesGuru. I have seen your posts and they are usually well informed so I am at a loss why you are making incorrect statements here.
My last delivery of BCAA tablets came in a clear plastic bottle container and the supplier seems set to extend the use of clear bottles, so I doubt this is just a marketing or cosmetic consideration. Amber lightproof bottles are widely used by pharmacists in medicine and have been for well over a century to prevent UV light degradation. I am questioning the sufficiency of green bottles which when used as beer bottles are known to be highly deficient and permit quick spoilage.
Riboflavin is notorious for light degradation and texts discussing industrial use of vitamins sometimes devote a chapter to overcoming the problem. I have given links here to a study which quantifies this and have quoted from it.
The notion that dietary Riboflavin is sufficient to overcome a mitochondrial disease, which I have, is so incorrect that I feel you might want to check into the source of your repeated advice to see where the misunderstanding has occurred. In normals riboflavin deficiency is considered rare but that is not what this whole forum is about and not what I am using riboflavin for.
By the way do you have any proof for the statement that the body is good at conserving riboflavin? Riboflavin is converted to other flavins and maybe you are referring to them instead. However even those flavins are not recycled for a very long time.
Edited by Kabb, 31 March 2017 - 11:29 AM.