Learn more about the Zeaxanthin dietary gap.

Zeaxanthin Dietary Gap

The average daily diet is scarce in Zeaxanthin with most diets falling 1-6mg short of the amount of Zeaxanthin associated with reduced risk for age-related macular degeneration. What’s more, healthy macular pigment comprises Zeaxanthin and Lutein, but Zeaxanthin is really difficult through diet.

Zeaxanthin: Scarce in Daily Diet

As you can see from the chart below, most fruits and vegetables simply don’t contain enough Zeaxanthin to maintain or rebuild macular pigment. In fact, it would take about 20 ears of corn to equal one serving of an EyePromise Restore softgel.

Zeaxanthin Derived from All-Natural Paprika

EyePromise features Zeaxanthin that is derived from a special strain of paprika peppers that have a 37-fold increase over the next leading source of dietary Zeaxanthin – an orange pepper.

Zeaxanthin and Lutein in the Diet, Blood, and Macula

The chart below shows how much more prevalent Lutein is in the diet and in the blood stream. However, in the center of the macula, specifically in the fovea, Zeaxanthin is naturally accumulated at a 2:1 ratio. So, while Zeaxanthin is difficult to get in the average daily diet, it is highly bio-available, which means it’s consumed, it does make it’s way into the blood stream, and into the eye.

If you are like most Americans, and have a diet that is below the 8-10 servings of fruit and vegetables that we should all be eating, consider EyePromise Restore (or EyePromise Zeaxanthin - contains only Zeaxanthin) to replenish what your eyes need most: Zeaxanthin, Lutein, and in Restore, a host of other vitamins and nutrients essential for a healthy macula.