Calcium plays a documented role in connection with normal muscle function. Footnotes sums up exactly what the EU has authorized on this, word for word.
View FootnotesA muscle fiber doesn't move on its own initiative. Only once a signal arrives does a short chain of events set off, and calcium shows up at exactly one specific point in that chain. Rubelliteon devotes Footnotes to this narrow but well-studied stretch, and quotes the EU-authorized sentence on calcium in full.
Calcium takes on more than one job in the body, and most of that falls outside the topic of this page: here, the focus is solely on the share needed within the muscle fiber itself.
Two sections further down place exactly where this ion acts, before the authorized sentence appears in full at the end.
A voltage-sensitive protein sits at the fiber's outer membrane, known in the scientific literature as the dihydropyridine receptor. It reacts to the electrical charge shift of an incoming nerve signal, but without releasing any substance of its own: a short protein bridge connects it directly to a channel in the wall of the inner calcium store, the ryanodine receptor, and pulls it open mechanically by a small amount when it reacts — a relay that runs this directly in only a handful of cell types.
Once the ryanodine receptor is open, stored calcium leaves the store along a steep concentration gradient. A calcium ATPase in the same store wall handles the return to the starting state, actively pumping the ion back inside. Both directions — out and back in — belong to one and the same feedback loop.
Dihydropyridine receptor, ryanodine receptor, and calcium ATPase are technical terms from the physiological literature. The official wording of the claim leaves all of them out entirely and only records the reviewed outcome in a short line.
Within the muscle fiber, calcium takes on a job narrow enough to be summed up in a single official sentence:
“Calcium contributes to normal muscle function”
EU-authorized wording · Regulation (EU) No 432/2012$49.00 USD
Footnotes takes the mechanism outlined here further, with source references, a food table, and the complete regulation text — available for good after purchase.
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