1 x Pouch (30 x 18g Sachets) 1 Month's Supply (1 Sachet Daily)
Get a Free Shaker when purchasing your first Bari-complete Pouch Pack (1 Shaker per customer)
New improved taste with the same tried and trusted formulae. Dieticians advise on taking one sachet per day. Suggestion: Dissolve one sachet in your free shaker and sip on this during the course of the day.
Why Calcium citrate?
Nutritional information per sachet
Elemental value per 6 g
%NRV*
Calcium (as citrate) (mg)
500
38
Magnesium (mg)
50
12
Vitamin C (mg
333
33
Iron (mg)
20
111
Zinc (mg)
7
64
Vitamin B3 (mg)
6
38
Vitamin E (mg)
5
37
Vitamin B5 (mg)
3
60
Vitamin B1 (mg)
1
83
Copper (mg)
0.7
78
Manganese (mg)
0.7
30
Vitamin B6 (mg)
0.446
26
Vitamin B2 (mg)
0.6
46
Vitamin A (µg)
233
26
Folic acid (µg)
133
33
Vitamin B12 (µg)
100
4167
Iodine (µg)
50
33
Vitamin K2 (µg)
26
22
Vitamin D3 (µg)
25
167
Biotin (µg)
20
67
Selenium (µg)
18
33
Chromium (µg)
15
43
Molybdenum (µg)
10
22
Calcium is a very difficult mineral to absorb and it has been shown that we can generally only absorb a maximum of 500 - 600 mg calcium at any one time and this is for a person whose stomach has not been reduced. For the post-bariatric surgery patient, this is even more problematic as the amount of acid their stomachs produce is greatly diminished, and calcium requires acid to be absorbed. Calcium citrate is the calcium salt of citric acid and therefore is in itself acidic promoting the absorption of the calcium. The cheaper carbonate and gluconate forms of calcium are alkaline and therefore without sufficient stomach acids, very little absorption takes place and are therefore not recommended by bariatric surgeons or the various international bariatric societies.
Even without surgery, no-one can absorb more than 500 - 600 mg calcium at any one time. This means that even if you take sufficient calcium daily, if you take it all at once, you will only be absorbing about 500 mg of the total amount and this means that firstly you are wasting your money and you will become osteoporotic over time. Osteoporosis is a silent disease, which means when you suffer your first break, it is far too late and the damage has already been done, so taking enough calcium every day to prevent this is critical. Hence dieticians recommend you take the dosage over the course of a day
