Magnesium questions
18 questions about magnesium, each answered from the 75 products we track, priced per 200 mg elemental magnesium where a price is on record, and from the certifier listings behind them, recomputed on every build. Where the answer is “we do not know”, it says so. See every magnesium product.
How much does magnesium cost per dose?
What 200 mg of elemental magnesium costs across every magnesium we price, cheapest to most expensive, with the salt each panel names. Before delivery.
What is the cheapest magnesium per dose?
Every magnesium we track, priced per 200 mg of elemental magnesium, not per capsule or bottle, grouped by salt. The salt and the brand both move the price.
Magnesium glycinate vs citrate: what is the difference?
What each form costs per 200 mg of elemental magnesium, how many capsules that takes, and what the Supplement Facts panels say. Absorption is not compared.
Is magnesium glycinate actually all glycinate?
Some products sold as one magnesium salt name a second salt on their own Supplement Facts panel. What each panel we have read says, by product.
Is magnesium glycinate third party tested?
Which magnesium glycinate and bisglycinate products a certifier names at the exact package sold, which only at another size, and which not at all.
Which magnesium brands are third-party tested?
Every magnesium we track, grouped by whether a certifier names the exact package sold, only another size, or nothing we found. By salt.
Magnesium glycinate vs malate: what is the difference?
What each form costs per 200 mg of elemental magnesium, how many capsules that takes, and what the Supplement Facts panels name. Absorption is not compared.
Why is magnesium L-threonate so much more expensive?
L-threonate costs many times more per 200 mg of elemental magnesium than glycinate. Little of the compound is magnesium, and that is most of the gap.
Magnesium citrate vs oxide: what is the difference?
What oxide and citrate each cost per 200 mg of elemental magnesium, how many units a dose takes, and what each panel names.
Magnesium glycinate vs taurate: what is the difference?
Magnesium glycinate and taurate priced per 200 mg of elemental magnesium, with the capsules each takes and what the labels name. Absorption is not compared.
How many capsules of magnesium do you have to take?
How many capsules, softgels or scoops each magnesium product needs to reach 200 mg of elemental magnesium. The number varies widely across products.
Is Thorne magnesium NSF certified?
Thorne magnesium bisglycinate, glycinate capsules and citrate checked against NSF Certified for Sport: which package each listing names, with the listing IDs.
What is the cheapest NSF certified magnesium?
Every magnesium we track whose exact package NSF names in its Certified for Sport database, ranked by cost per 200 mg of elemental magnesium, by salt.
Is BulkSupplements magnesium NSF certified?
Every BulkSupplements magnesium we price, checked in NSF’s Certified for Sport database: which bags a listing names, which it does not, and the listing IDs.
Is Momentous magnesium NSF certified?
Momentous magnesium bisglycinate, L-threonate and malate checked against NSF Certified for Sport: which bottle each listing names, with the listing IDs.
How much elemental magnesium is in magnesium glycinate?
What the milligrams on a magnesium label mean: the compound weight a bottle names, the elemental magnesium its panel states, and how the two differ by form.
What is the cheapest magnesium glycinate?
Every magnesium glycinate package we price, ranked by what 200 mg of elemental magnesium costs, with the ones whose panel names another salt kept apart.
Is Nature Made magnesium USP Verified?
Nature Made magnesium glycinate, citrate and oxide checked against USP’s Verified directory and each label’s mark, package by package.
Questions that span every supplement
Do third-party tested supplements cost more?
The cheapest product we track in each category beside the cheapest one a certifier names at the exact package, where one exists, and the gap per dose.
Is BulkSupplements third party tested?
Every BulkSupplements product we track, by whether a certifier names the exact package sold, only another size, or nothing we found. With listing IDs.
Do supplement travel packs cost more per dose?
Every travel pack or single-serve packet we price, next to the same brand’s smallest tub or bottle of the same product, per comparison dose.
Is Thorne third party tested?
Every Thorne product we price, checked in NSF’s Certified for Sport database: which listing names the exact package sold, with the listing IDs.
Is Core Med Science third party tested?
Every Core Med Science product we price, checked in NSF’s Certified for Sport database: which listing names the exact package sold, and the IDs.
Is Optimum Nutrition third party tested?
Every Optimum Nutrition product we track, checked in the certifier databases: what each listing covers, package by package, with the listing IDs.
Is Momentous third party tested?
Every Momentous product we price, checked in NSF’s Certified for Sport database: where a listing names the exact package, and where it names another size.
Is BPN third party tested?
Every Bare Performance Nutrition product we price, checked in NSF’s Certified for Sport database: which package each listing names, and which it does not.
Which supplements are NSF Certified for Sport?
Every package we price that NSF names in its Certified for Sport database, by category, with the listing IDs and what each listing actually covers.
Do supplement prices actually change?
We re-read every price we can read automatically each day and keep every reading. Which prices have moved since we started, which have not, and by how much.
How many capsules is one serving?
How many pills the label calls one serving, across every capsule, tablet and softgel we price, and what that does to the count on the front of the bottle.
Is BUBS Naturals third party tested?
Every BUBS Naturals product we price, checked in NSF’s Certified for Sport database: which listing names the exact package sold, with the listing IDs.
Is Sports Research third party tested?
Every Sports Research product we track, checked in the certifier databases: which program lists each one, and which no database we searched lists.
Is Nature Made third party tested?
Every Nature Made product we price, checked against USP’s Verified Products directory and its own label: which packages carry both, product by product.
Questions about something else: Creatine Monohydrate · Vitamin D3 · Omega-3 · Whey Protein · Plant Protein · Collagen Peptides · Vitamin B12 · Zinc. Or every question on one page.
What this rests on: prices we last recorded at the retailer named on each product page, which go stale, and each page says when it was checked; the products we track, not every product sold, and Amazon and Walmart are not among the stores; listings and labels read at the source, each linked from the page. Found an error? Tell us. The full method: How we compare.