It has the exact same amount of iodine as the previous version. The only ingredients are glycerine, water, and iodine. Water was added to the product as glycerine by itself will not stay in the dropper. It will immediately flow out due to the lower adhesive properties when compared to water. The tart taste is a result of manufacturing process needed to get sufficient iodine into the glycerine base. The formation of what's known as a conjugate acid-base pair was intentionally produced with the iodine lending a tart taste to the product. Other methods were experimented with, but this was deemed the most palatable. As a nutritional supplement the bioavailability is at least the same as the previous version, if not superior, as the iodine doesn't have to be broken down to iodide, which is th.
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