Identify Mystery Powder, Ordered Pyritinol from Cerebral Health, got something different. Options

[kagaos]

Alright, well I ordered bulk Pyritinol from CH and got it in today.
I was excited to try it out so I measured out 400mg and downed it.

Now, I found something stating that pyritinol is supposed to taste nasty and be water soluble.
Surprisingly, the bulk powder I got fit neither of these criteria. It was tasteless, and highly hydrophobic.

My first thought was, OH SHIT what if it's huperzine a!? I called them and they assured me it wouldn't be. But they couldn't confirm for me that it was pyritinol. All he could say was that "it is what it is...we just got this new shipment in...it is what it is..."

Long story short I just want to know if cerebral health sells anything that is a hydrophobic, tasteless, off-white powder that could harm me in the dosage of 400mg?

[Kleuze]

Well it would be great if you could and want to do it. I'm very curious about the results.

Unfortunately, I have only basic knowledge about (bio)chemistry, neither do I have the equipment to do these kind of tests (note to self: probably a good idea to work on that when experimenting with nootropics)

Pretty much the only thing I could test it in was the Dutch household article "Wasbenzine" (I'm not sure whether that's non-polar or polar-aprotic, I only know it's a mix of different sized alkanes). It got rather turbid when I mixed this "Pyritinol" in it, so it didn't seem very soluble. Maybe I've saturated it too much (eventhough I've put only about 200mg in a full glass of it), but by short-term observation (lumps persistently falling to the bottom, refusing to "solve" without crushing them) I'd say it's not soluble in that either, but I could be wrong. Chemistry class was a long time ago

I get the same observations when I mix it with oil (don't know if that's useful information).

As for the purity, it says 99% on the label, but then again, it also says Pyritinol on the label, which it's unlikely that it is. I have not made any modifications to it whatsoever (I wouldn't even know how to crystallize it, I only know how to do that to hydrophilic substances)

About sending you some of it, I've never actually sent substrances through mail, especially not overseas. You think it's possible to send you a portion from The Netherlands to Canada? If so, is there anything special that comes to it?

Thanks alot by the way for all your help and information on the subject. I only just noticed you were already involved in this thread two years ago, haha

EDIT: About the claim that it's rice-based, do you happen to know anything about that? Does it sound plausible to you whatsoever? I couldn't find any search results with rice-based and pyritinol together, but maybe I'm just searching the wrong way, you never know..