Chromium Polynicotinate
Chromium Polynicotinate is a tier 2 form of Chromium, used in 1,222 on-market products .
1,222
on-market products
tier 2
quality tier
n/a
elemental fraction
Basis: Proprietary Cr-nicotinic-acid complex, no single public molecular formula; supplier spec sheets cite ~12% Cr (a spec figure, not a verified calculation)
Why this tier: Picolinate produced higher urinary Cr than two nicotinate supplements and than chloride in the comparative study; its abstract does not rank nicotinate against chloride, and the branded polynicotinate complex was not necessarily one of the products tested.
Source: DiSilvestro RA, Dy E. 2007, PMID 17499152 (form-class evidence, not this specific branded complex)