Lemon Bottle Lipolysis Solution

Lemon Bottle is a multi-component solution combining riboflavin, bromelain and L-carnitine. It is supplied as a laboratory reference preparation; the three components are chemically unrelated and are studied individually in quite separate literatures.

• Riboflavin (vitamin B₂) — precursor to the flavin cofactors FMN and FAD, and strongly light-sensitive, which is the main handling constraint on the preparation.
• Bromelain — a proteolytic enzyme complex derived from pineapple stem. Being an enzyme rather than a small molecule, its characterisation is by activity as well as by mass.
• L-carnitine — a quaternary ammonium compound involved in mitochondrial fatty-acid transport; listed separately with a research reference page.

The presence of a proteolytic enzyme is the analytically distinctive feature. Enzyme activity is not established by an HPLC purity figure, and it degrades on a different timetable from the small molecules alongside it.

Multi-component preparations are analytically different from single compounds: there is no single molecular weight, no single CAS number, and a purity figure has to be read per component rather than as one number for the vial. That is worth understanding before comparing blends between suppliers — what HPLC purity actually means covers why a single headline percentage carries less information here than it does for a single-compound product.

Presentation

Aqueous solution, SKU Lemon-Bottle. A 10 ml presentation is listed separately.

Documentation

A Certificate of Analysis is produced per batch and is available on request against the lot number printed on the vial. For a multi-component preparation the report states the component breakdown as well as the analysis of the finished solution. If you have not worked with this kind of report before, how to read a Certificate of Analysis walks through each section, and identity vs purity explains why the two headline numbers answer different questions.

Handling

Protect from light — riboflavin photodegrades readily, and a visible colour change in the solution is the usual first sign of it. Keep the container closed between uses; see bacteriostatic water on why repeated entry into a container is a contamination question in its own right.

Research use only. Supplied for in-vitro research and laboratory use. Not for human or veterinary use, not a medicine, and not for food or cosmetic application. See the compliance page for the framework NMChem operates under.