PlainVitamins

A form of chromium

Chromium polynicotinate supplements

1,590 chromium products in the NIH label database list chromium as chromium polynicotinate (19% of the 8,169 chromium products); their median is 120 mcg of chromium per serving, against 100 mcg across all chromium products; the 33 whose only supplement ingredient is chromium list a median of 200 mcg (DSLD version 9.4.0, January 2026).

How does chromium polynicotinate 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
1,5901,162 on the market
Median chromium per serving
120 mcgall chromium products: 100 mcg
Share of chromium products
19%1,590 of 8,169

Is the amount the chromium or the whole chromium polynicotinate?

A Supplement Facts row normally states the chromium itself (a row like "Chromium (as chromium polynicotinate)"); a row named as the compound (a row like "Chromium polynicotinate") 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 1,590 products here, 1,579 give the chromium in its own row (20 of them an amount far outside what other labels list, or one their own %DV disagrees with); 1 gives only a row named as the compound, left out of the medians and counts on this site; 10 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 B669% 15 mg6 mg
Niacin69% 25 mg20 mg
Zinc67% 15 mg11 mg
Vitamin B1266% 100 mcg36 mcg
Vitamin C66% 220 mg100 mg
Magnesium64% 100 mg86 mg
Thiamin64% 15 mg5 mg
Folate63% 400 mcg400 mcg
Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5)63% 25 mg12 mg
Selenium63% 70 mcg55 mcg

Which products are they?

60 of the 1,590 (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?

Douglas Laboratories (86), Rainbow Light (43), Pure Encapsulations (43), Nature's Plus (42), ProCaps Laboratories (40), MegaFood (36), Source Naturals (31), Detoxify (21), CytoSport (19), Vital Nutrients (18).

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