Together Health Folate

We’ve looked to nature’s most abundant plant-based source of folate, spinach, to offer our natural alternative to folic acid. In fact, the Latin word folate is derived from literally means ‘leaf’. This safe, gentle and highly absorbed folate is just as nature intended, including spinach’s bioactive co-nutrients. We use spinach leaves grown without herbicides or pesticides to ensure purity from farm to capsule.
You can often find the terms ‘folate,’ ‘folic acid,’ and ‘vitamin B9’ being used interchangeably, especially the first two; although these terms are related, there are key differences. Vitamin B9 and folate are umbrella terms used for all forms of this vitamin; different forms of a vitamin are referred to as vitamers. However, colloquially, folate refers to a group of vitamins that exist naturally in foods. Folic acid refers to a specific synthetic form that does not exist in nature.
Our advanced extraction process employs a natural digestive enzyme to convert folate into the most bioavailable form in the same way as the body. A hydrolysis step releases the folate from the food matrix, and stability tests guarantee that only the most stable forms remain, notably including L-Methylfolate (5-MTHF), which the body can directly use.