花了冤枉钱--Walmart,Walgreens,Target and GNC卖的营养补充剂里到底含有什么？

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What’s in Those Supplements?

Target's “Up and Up” brand of St. Johns Wort and Valerian root contained none of those ingredients.
Credit Yana Paskova for The New York Times

The New York State attorney general’s office accused four national retailers on Monday of selling dietary supplements that were fraudulent and in many cases contaminated with unlisted ingredients.

The authorities said they had run tests on popular store brands of herbal supplements at the retailers — Walmart, Walgreens, Target and GNC — which showed that roughly four out of five of the products contained none of the herbs listed on their labels. In many cases, the authorities said, the supplements contained little more than cheap fillers like rice and house plants, or substances that could be hazardous to people with food allergies.（官方表示：多数情况下这些补充剂里除了填塞了些诸如大米以及常见室内植物之类的廉价成分之外，并没有太多真材实料。有些甚至还含有对食物过敏者可能有害的物质。）

At GNC, for example, the agency found that five out of six samples from the company’s signature “Herbal Plus” brand of supplements “were either unrecognizable or a substance other than what they claimed to be.” In pills labeled ginkgo biloba, the agency found only rice, asparagus and spruce, an ornamental plant commonly used for Christmas decorations.

At Target, the agency tested six herbal products from its popular “Up and Up” store brand of supplements. Three out of six – including ginkgo biloba, St. John’s wort and valerian root, a sleep aid – tested negative for the herbs listed on their labels. But the agency did find that the pills contained powdered rice, beans, peas and wild carrots.

Here are the products that were analyzed by the attorney general, along with the test results that were described in cease-and-desist letters that the agency sent to the four retailers.

From GNC, Herbal Plus brand:

Gingko Biloba（银杏叶）

No gingko biloba found （未发现银杏叶）
Did detect allium (garlic), rice, spruce and asparagus（检测到大蒜、大米、云杉和芦笋等成分）

St. John’s Wort （圣约翰草）

No St. John’s Wort found（未发现圣约翰草）
Did detect allium (garlic), rice and dracaena (a tropical houseplant)（检测到大蒜、大米和龙血树属植物（一种热带室内植物））

Ginseng（人参）

No ginseng found（未发现人参）
Did detect rice, dracaena, pine, wheat/grass and citrus（检测到大米、龙血树属植物、松、小麦/草和柑橘）

Garlic（大蒜）

Contained garlic（含有大蒜）

Echinacea（紫锥菊）

No echinacea found（未发现紫锥菊）
Did detect rice in some samples（在一些样品中检测到大米）

Saw Palmetto（锯棕榈）

One sample contained the clear presence of palmetto（一份样品中明确含有锯棕榈）
Other samples contained a variety of ingredients, including asparagus, rice and primrose（其它样品含有多种成分、包括芦笋、大米和月见草）

From Target, Up & Up brand

Gingko Biloba