Gallic acid is an amoebic acerbic begin in foods such as blueberries, apples, flaxseeds, tea leaves, oak bark, walnuts and watercress. Its supplements are accessible as capsules, ointments and aqueous extracts, and accept been acclimated commonly to amusement a array of ailments. The anatomy and dosage depend on the age of the accommodating and action getting treated. Gallic acid supplements are about safe to use, although they may baffle with assertive claret burden medications. It is important to argue a doctor afore application them to abstain accessible adverse acknowledgment and biologic interaction. A 2009 class abstraction appear in 'Pharmaceutical Research' showed that Gallic acid extracted from grape seeds induced the programmed afterlife of prostate blight cells. However, these after-effects accept not been accurate in absolute analytic cases and should not be acclimated after consulting a doctor. Fungi, abnormally Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, aftermath a adverse adulteration accepted as aflatoxin that can alloy foods such as nuts, peanuts, corn, aureate and cottonseed. However, Gallic acid has the adeptness to arrest the enzymes amenable for the assembly of aflatoxins by the fungi, says the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and may thereby, advice advance an environmentally affable way to accord with aflatoxins. But it is best to argue a physician afore application gallic acid.
