05/23/2026
Here's the math no one shows you.
A teaspoon of turmeric powder contains roughly 100 mg of curcuminoids. A clinical capsule of standardized curcumin contains 500. That's already a 15-tablespoon gap before absorption enters the picture.
Then absorption enters the picture. Without piperine and a lipid carrier, curcumin from food is roughly 1% absorbed. With both, the standardized extract sits closer to 20%.
Run the math both ways — dose plus bioavailability — and a single 500 mg capsule of properly formulated curcumin is the absorbed equivalent of about 30 tablespoons of raw turmeric powder a day.
This is why we don't include curcumin alone. We include curcumin with piperine, formulated for delivery.
The reason is the math.
— Fabio