Equicure Boswellia doses

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I am about to start feeding equicure boswellia: https://www.equicure.co.uk/product-page/boswellia-serrata-concentrate


It has 85% Boswellic acid which is the best I can find, but the dose is just 4g a day. Does anyone else feed this/know what the equivalent would be? It just seems so low compared to the recommended doses on most products with 65% Boswellic acid that I'm wondering if it's enough.
 
quiteniceforacob said:
I am about to start feeding equicure boswellia: https://www.equicure.co.uk/product-page/boswellia-serrata-concentrate


It has 85% Boswellic acid which is the best I can find, but the dose is just 4g a day. Does anyone else feed this/know what the equivalent would be? It just seems so low compared to the recommended doses on most products with 65% Boswellic acid that I'm wondering if it's enough.
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I had a quick look and struggling to find comparisons.

Some Boswellia is 10-12% or you have the concentrated which is 65% or 85%>. So far I've found some that doesn't say the concentration but tells you how many grams; some that tell you the concentration but only scoops so you don't know the weight and some that tell you the concentration and the weight of a scoop but contain other things so you don't know how much is Boswellia
 
Is this any help? I feed Riaflex 65% Boswellia, which I buy on special offer. This is the Riaflex 65% blurb for comparison, which is still fed in much smaller volumes than other suppliers who bulk their Boswellia out with fillers.

I didn’t know that 85% was available anywhere.

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Please feel free to correct me as I'm not great at maths, but this looks like a very expensive way of feeding boswellia? If you look at Rowan Barbury 65% boswellia it's £38.16 per kilo. The Equicure 85% boswellia is £109.95 for 750 grams which works out at £146.60 per kilo (£109.95 / 750 x 1000). If you increased the amount of Rowan Barbury boswellia fed to make it the equivalent of 85% it would work out at £49.90 per kilo (£38.16 / 65 x 85)? The individual companies own recommended levels of feeding are a bit of a red herring when comparing costs? Please correct me if I've got this wrapped around my neck as I think the Rowan Barbury boswellia is the cheapest I can find but would love to find something cheaper!

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Ellibelli said:
Please feel free to correct me as I'm not great at maths, but this looks like a very expensive way of feeding boswellia? If you look at Rowan Barbury 65% boswellia it's £38.16 per kilo. The Equicure 85% boswellia is £109.95 for 750 grams which works out at £146.60 per kilo (£109.95 / 750 x 1000). If you increased the amount of Rowan Barbury boswellia fed to make it the equivalent of 85% it would work out at £49.90 per kilo (£38.16 / 65 x 85)? The individual companies own recommended levels of feeding are a bit of a red herring when comparing costs? Please correct me if I've got this wrapped around my neck as I think the Rowan Barbury boswellia is the cheapest I can find but would love to find something cheaper!

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What is the cost per recommended serving though?
 
Dontforgetaboutme said:
What is the cost per recommended serving though?
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Equicure (85%) recommends 4 grams a day for a standard horse, which works out at 58 pence a day for their Boswellia.
Rowan Barbury (65%) recommends up to 30 grams a day which works out at £1.14 per day for their Boswellia
The Riaflex example that Tiddlypom has quoted above (65%) recommends 12 grams a day which works out at £1.17 per day for their Boswellia

But surely it's all the same stuff if you correct the % levels, and I find it hard to believe that 4 grams of the Equicure product would be effective as it's so out of whack with other companies recommendations. 4 grams of 85% boswellia is the equivalent of 5.2 grams of 65% boswellia?

Is there a scientist and/or mathematician out there that can put me right on this please?
 
I feed it to the recommendation and it seems to make as much as non conc stuff does. Arguably I don't think there's an official recommended amount anywhere anyway so have assumed they are all somewhat made up anyway. I've always fed rahiiq previously
 
Thank you all - I enquired and feeding 4g gives you 3.4g of boswellic acid. So I will dose up! But that was super helpful above as the question I actually wanted to know was how much boswellic acid was in each dose. But I wasn't sure how to ask!
 
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