Product Description
Product Description
L-methylfolate is the biologically active form of vitamin B9. That means it is the form the human body can actually use in circulation.
It goes by several other common names including:
Methylfolate;
L-Methylfolate calcium (refers to the calcium salt molecule it is attached to);
Metafolin and Deplin;
5-MTHF and L-5-MTHF (in this article 5-MTHF refers to L-5-MTHF);
Levomefolic acid;
5-methyltetrahydrofolate;
(6S)-5-methyltetrahydrofolate and Quatrefolic.
Specification
| Description | White powder | Complies |
| Identification | IR | Complies |
| HPLC | Complies | |
| Heavy metal | ≤10ppm | 5ppm |
| Pb | ≤3ppm | 1.5ppm |
| Hg | ≤0.1ppm | 0.05ppm |
| Cd | ≤1ppm | 0.2ppm |
| Loss on drying | ≤0.5% | 0.12 |
| Residue on lgnition | ≤0.1% | 0.03 |
| Single impurity | ≤0.5% | 0.12 |
| Total impurity | ≤1.0% | 0.29 |
| Total bacteria | ≤1000cfu/g | <1000 |
| Yeast and Mould | ≤100 cfu/g | <000 |
| E.coli/25g | Absent | Absent |
| Salmonella/25g | Absent | Absent |
| Assay | ≥99.0% | 99.4% |
| Conclusion | Conforms with USP/EP standards | |
Application
A metabolite of Folic acid; inhibits photosensitization reactions and strand breaks in DNA.




