4 Sidea® B12 organic vegan chewable tablets contain 1.6 µg natural plant-linked vitamin B12. This corresponds with 64 % of the nutrient reference value for vitamin B12 as per the Food Information Regulation.

With its fruity, light sour flavour, Sidea^® B 12 organic vegan chewable tablets are an indigenous way to round out your diet with plant-based vitamin B12 and to compensate for a nutritional deficiency. This makes Sidea^® B12 organic vegan chewable tablets an ideal partner for vegetarians and vegans. At the same time, pregnant or breastfeeding women, users of the contraceptive pill and older people can cover their increased requirements with Sidea^® B12 organic vegan chewable tablets.

Up to now, no plant that creates vitamin B12 itself has been discovered, but plants can contain it. The vitamin is produced by bacteria in the ground that the plant lives in symbiosis with. The sea buckthorn berry which we have been using for a long time has recently lost its “colleagues”. This is because EU funding programmes for sea buckthorn production resulted in the plant being intensively fertilised to increase yields. This fertilising makes the symbiotic bacteria superfluous for the plants. As a result, the sea buckthorn berry had to forfeit its vitamin B12 content. For this reason, it has been impossible for Dr. Pandalis Naturprodukte to continue producing reliable dietary supplements based on plant-linked sea buckthorn berry vitamin B12 for about seven years now.

The research by Dr. Pandalis Naturprodukte led to the discovery of an unusually high active vitamin B12 in a certain variety of European couchgrass root (Sidea^® couchgrass). It is three times higher than the amount obtained from the erstwhile sea buckthorn berry harvests. It still contains the sea buckthorn berries, because the combination of both plants is optimal: the fruit acids from sea buckthorn berries can facilitate the separation of vitamin B12 from Sidea^® B12. In addition, Sidea^® B12 is also kept naturally fresh, thanks to the sea buckthorn berry’s vitamin C, and its valuable ingredients are protected from oxidation.

We take care to produce Sidea^® B12 without any exposure to light, so that the light-sensitive vitamin B12 from the couchgrass root is completely retained in the product in a biologically active form.