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English Ivy Leaf Extract
English ivy leaf extract is a cough-remedy herb with no human evidence for pre-workout performance.
How it counts: Not part of the score
We show it on the label and count it as disclosed, but it never affects Dose, any sub-score or the grade. The basis below explains why.
- Clinical dose
- No established clinical dose
- Safety ceiling
- —
- Evidence
- weak
- Category
- Other
Evidence summary
Research confidence: medium
No pre-workout reference dose. EMA assesses Hedera helix leaf preparations as expectorants for productive cough, not for exercise performance, energy, pump or focus. Hederacoside C is a pharmacopoeial marker for ivy leaf extract, but no human trial establishes a useful acute pre-workout dose. The printed 100 mg is the mass of the extract standardized to 10% hederacosides, so it is retained as 100 mg rather than converted to 10 mg.
Research sources
- Final assessment report on Hedera helix L., folium — Revision 2 (EMA HMPC 2018)(opens in new window)
- Hederae helicis folium — herbal medicinal product (European Medicines Agency)(opens in new window)
Identifies Hedera helix leaf as ivy leaf and places its assessed medicinal use in cough and cold; the assessment does not establish an exercise-performance or pre-workout use.