Black Walnut Hull 500mg | 60 capsules | Swanson

Swanson Black Walnut Hull

Black walnut is not an everyday culinary nut. Black walnut comes from the North American tree Juglans nigra, and it is actually the green outer hulls that are in this capsule, not the nut itself. Black walnut hull has a long history in North America. Swanson makes a simple capsule out of it, with 500 mg of finely ground hull per capsule.

Where the hull comes from

The black walnut tree grows mainly in the eastern United States and can grow dozens of meters tall. Around the nut is a thick, green husk. That husk, or hull, is the part that is used here. It is harvested while it is still green, then dried and finely ground into a powder. So it is a different part of the plant than the hard nut you crack in the kitchen. The hull is known in the herbal world for its deep, almost inky color, which can seriously discolor your fingers if you touch fresh specimens.

What Full Spectrum means

Many herbal products isolate a few substances and leave out the rest of the plant. With a Full Spectrum product, that is precisely not the case. You get the complete, ground hull of the black walnut, with everything that naturally occurs in it, in the ratio the plant itself produces. So it is not a highly concentrated extract, but the whole herb in powder form. For many people, that feels like a fair, recognizable way of working: the plant as it is, without parts disappearing along the way.

The substances in the hull

The black walnut hull naturally contains juglone, a naphthoquinone compound that is responsible for the typical dark color. In addition, it contains astringent substances (tannins) and polyphenols. Astringent substances are the astringent substances you also taste in strong tea or unripe fruit. These are the plant-specific compounds that make the hull so characteristic. They are naturally present in the plant material and are not added separately in a Full Spectrum powder, but are also not removed. What the plant itself contains is preserved.

The capsule and the dosage

Each capsule contains 500 mg of ground hull. The recommended amount is one capsule per day, with food and a glass of water. A bottle contains sixty capsules, enough for about two months. Good to know: the capsule itself is made of gelatin, an animal protein, so this product is not plant-based. The contents, the ground hull, are. Because it is a walnut product, it contains tree nuts, something to pay attention to with a nut allergy.

In short, this is a straightforward herbal capsule: the whole hull of the black walnut, 500 mg per capsule, in a bottle of sixty. Simple, complete, and without frills.