Zinc questions
9 questions about zinc, each answered from the 26 products we track, priced per 15 mg elemental zinc 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 zinc product.
How much does zinc cost per dose?
What 15 mg of elemental zinc costs across every zinc we price, cheapest to most expensive, with the salt each panel names. Before delivery.
What does chelated zinc mean on a label?
Chelated is mostly a shopping word. What the panels of the products sold under it actually name, which panels print the word, and the price per 15 mg.
What is the cheapest zinc per dose?
Every zinc we track, priced per 15 mg of elemental zinc instead of per capsule or per bottle, grouped by the salt its own panel names.
Which zinc brands are third-party tested?
Every zinc we track, grouped by whether a certifier lists the exact bottle sold, another size, or nothing we found. Absence is not a verdict.
Zinc picolinate vs gluconate: what is the difference?
What each form costs per 15 mg of elemental zinc, how many capsules that takes, and what the Supplement Facts panels name. Absorption is not compared.
Is BulkSupplements zinc NSF certified?
Which BulkSupplements zinc products NSF Certified for Sport names at the exact package sold, which it does not, and the listing IDs behind each.
Is Thorne zinc NSF certified?
Thorne zinc picolinate and bisglycinate checked bottle by bottle in NSF’s Certified for Sport database, including the bottle sold with the mark on it.
What is the cheapest NSF certified zinc?
Every zinc we track whose exact bottle NSF names in its Certified for Sport database, ranked by cost per 15 mg of elemental zinc, before delivery.
Zinc bisglycinate vs picolinate: what is the difference?
What each form costs per 15 mg of elemental zinc, how many capsules that takes, and what each Supplement Facts panel names. Absorption is not compared.
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.
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 · Magnesium · Vitamin D3 · Omega-3 · Whey Protein · Plant Protein · Collagen Peptides · Vitamin B12. 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.