Vitamin E is a fat-soluble essential vitamin with powerful antioxidant properties that can support the healthy functions of your heart, skin, bones, eyes and digestive system. Although vitamin E was first discovered by Herbert McLean Evans in 1922, it was only in the late 1950s that scientists realized that what they knew as vitamin E actually consisted of two major subgroups, namely, tocotrienols and tocopherols. Each of these subgroups contain four chemically and structurally diverse molecules (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, delta-), totaling eight different compounds that offer their own individual benefits.
Tocotrienols are the more potent and effective of the two subgroups, providing up to 60x greater antioxidant potential than tocopherols. Taking it a step further, the most potent forms of vitamin E are delta- and gamma-tocotrienols. As a powerful antioxidant, vitamin E helps protect your body from oxidative stress and supports good overall health. The most efficient vitamin E supplements contain only tocotrienols and zero tocopherols, since the latter is known to interfere with the benefits of the former.
This is why we specially formulated Chief Originals® Annatto Vitamin E Delta/Gamma Tocotrienols to contain 125 mg of delta- and gamma-tocotrienols in the ideal ratio (90% delta-tocotrienols and 10% gamma-tocotrienols).