PlainVitamins

A form of chromium

Chromium chloride supplements

663 chromium products in the NIH label database list chromium as chromium chloride (8% of the 8,169 chromium products); their median is 60 mcg of chromium per serving, against 100 mcg across all chromium products (DSLD version 9.4.0, January 2026).

How does chromium chloride compare with the other forms?

The median amount of chromium per serving in products naming each form; the count in brackets. The amount is the chromium the label gives, as printed (the Supplement Facts row normally states the element; a row named as the compound usually gives the compound's weight and is left out of these figures).

Median chromium per serving by form

Chromium by formChromium picolinate120 mcg (2,056)Chromium polynicotinate120 mcg (1,590)Chromium nicotinate glycinate100 mcg (858)Chromium chloride60 mcg (663)
Chromium by formChromium picolinate120 mcg (2,056)Chromium polynicotinate120 mcg (1,590)Chromium nicotinate glycinate100 mcg (858)Chromium chloride60 mcg (663)
Chromium by formChromium picolinate120 mcg (2,056)Chromium polynicotinate120 mcg (1,590)Chromium nicotinate glycinate100 mcg (858)Chromium chloride60 mcg (663)
Chromium by formChromium picolinate120 mcg (2,056)Chromium polynicotinate120 mcg (1,590)Chromium nicotinate glycinate100 mcg (858)Chromium chloride60 mcg (663)
Chromium by formChromium picolinate120 mcg (2,056)Chromium polynicotinate120 mcg (1,590)Chromium nicotinate glycinate100 mcg (858)Chromium chloride60 mcg (663)

Source: Supplement Facts rows and their forms, NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database version 9.4.0, current labels.

Products
663527 on the market
Median chromium per serving
60 mcgall chromium products: 100 mcg
Share of chromium products
8%663 of 8,169

Is the amount the chromium or the whole chromium chloride?

A Supplement Facts row normally states the chromium itself (a row like "Chromium (as chromium chloride)"); a row named as the compound (a row like "Chromium chloride") usually states the compound's weight, which includes what the chromium is bound to and is larger than the chromium it supplies. The front of a bottle may print either. Of the 663 products here, 662 give the chromium in its own row (10 of them an amount far outside what other labels list, or one their own %DV disagrees with); 1 give no amount of their own or one in another unit.

Source: Supplement Facts rows of each product's current label, NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database version 9.4.0 (what counts as plausible).

What else do these products contain?

Ingredients most often listed alongside it, with the median amount in these products and in all products
IngredientShare of these productsMedian hereMedian, all products
Vitamin B689% 3 mg6 mg
Vitamin B1288% 10 mcg36 mcg
Niacin87% 20 mg20 mg
Vitamin C86% 80 mg100 mg
Riboflavin85% 1.7 mg4 mg
Zinc85% 15 mg11 mg
Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5)85% 10 mg12 mg
Folate84% 400 mcg400 mcg
Thiamin82% 1.5 mg5 mg
Vitamin D81% 15 mcg15 mcg

Which products are they?

60 of the 663 (on-market products first, the newest label first), ordered by the amount of chromium per serving, largest first; an amount that looks like a slip or a compound's weight comes last, marked.

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database version 9.4.0; the form each label names for its row. Daily Values: the FDA's Daily Value page.

Which brands make them?

New Chapter (46), Arbonne (31), Nature Made (25), GNC Mega Men (18), GNC Women's Ultra Mega (18), GNC Women's (18), 21st Century (16), VitaCeutical Labs (12), CytoSport (12), Naturade (12).

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