Chromium (as chromium picolinate)
The only ingredient on the panel with its own number. Seven micrograms is 20% of the Daily Value. Chromium works in the body's handling of blood sugar, and steady blood sugar is part of steady attention.
Cognizil Ingredients: The Whole Panel, Read Off the Bottle
Twenty-two ingredients. One published amount. Here is the full list, what each group is studied for, and the honest gap between this label and the research.
Quick answer
Cognizil declares chromium as chromium picolinate at 7 mcg, which is 20% of the Daily Value, and a 15.47 mg proprietary blend holding 21 further ingredients. The blend mixes herb extracts such as maca, ginseng, eleuthero, green tea and astragalus with free amino acids such as L-tyrosine, GABA and L-tryptophan. Individual amounts inside the blend are not published, which is legal and which does mean the dose cannot be checked.
The eight Cognizil ingredients worth knowing about
Every name below is printed on the panel. Where the amount is hidden inside the blend, the card says so instead of guessing.
Panax ginseng root extract
The most studied name on this label for mental work. Trials have looked at ginseng and attention, though results move around from study to study.
Eleuthero root extract
Often sold as Siberian ginseng and grouped with the adaptogens. Human results for tiredness and concentration are mixed, and one controlled study found no added benefit.
Maca root extract
A Peruvian root studied mostly for mood and energy scores rather than memory. The trials that showed anything used three grams a day of extract.
Green tea leaf extract
Green tea carries both caffeine and L-theanine. That pairing is the part of this label with the clearest short-term attention evidence.
L-tyrosine
An amino acid the body uses to build dopamine and noradrenaline. Reviews suggest it helps most when a person is already stressed, tired, or cold.
GABA
A calming messenger in the brain. Whether swallowed GABA reaches the brain in people is still an open question in the research.
L-tryptophan
The building block the body turns into serotonin and then melatonin. It sits on the calm side of this formula rather than the alert side.
See the full Supplement Facts panel for every line on the label.
The full Cognizil ingredient list, in label order
A proprietary blend must list its ingredients in order of weight, heaviest first, so maca is the largest single component and L-carnitine HCl the smallest. The caret marks on the panel tell you the extract strength.
| Ingredient | Amount | Extract strength |
|---|---|---|
| Chromium (as chromium picolinate) | 7 mcg | 20% of the Daily Value |
| 1. Maca (Lepidium meyenii) Root Extract | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | 20:1 extract |
| 2. African Mango (Irvingia Gabonesis) Seed Extract | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | 10:1 extract |
| 3. Grape (Vitis vinifera) Seed Extract | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | 20:1 extract |
| 4. Guarana (Paullinia Cupana) Seed Extract | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | 20:1 extract |
| 5. Eleuthero (Eleutherococcus senticosus) Root Extract | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | 20:1 extract |
| 6. Astragalus Membranaceus Root Extract | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | 20:1 extract |
| 7. Green Tea Leaf Extract | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | 20:1 extract |
| 8. Gymnema Sylvestre Leaf Extract | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | 20:1 extract |
| 9. Forskohlii (Coleus forskohlii) Root Extract | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | 20:1 extract |
| 10. Cayenne Pepper (Capsicum annuum) Fruit Extract | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | 20:1 extract |
| 11. Grapefruit (Citrus Paradisi) Seed | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | 20:1 extract |
| 12. Ginseng (Panax Ginseng) Root Extract | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | Not a concentrate |
| 13. Raspberry Ketones | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | Not a concentrate |
| 14. L-glutamine | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | Not a concentrate |
| 15. L-Tyrosine | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | Not a concentrate |
| 16. L-Arginine | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | Not a concentrate |
| 17. Beta Alanine | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | Not a concentrate |
| 18. Monoammonium Glycyrrhizinate | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | Not a concentrate |
| 19. GABA (Gamma Aminobutyric Acid) | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | Not a concentrate |
| 20. L-Tryptophan | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | Not a concentrate |
| 21. L-Carnitine HCl | Inside the 15.47 mg blend | Not a concentrate |
Other ingredients
Water, Natural flavors, Potassium Sorbate, Stevia, Xylitol, Citrus Extract.
Panel footnotes
- Not a significant source of saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, dietary fiber, total sugars, added sugars, protein, Vitamin D, calcium, iron, or potassium.
- * Percent Daily Value (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
- † Daily Value (DV) not established.
- ^ Sourced from a concentrate with a 20:1 extract equivalent.
- “ Sourced from a concentrate with a 10:1 extract equivalent.
What a proprietary blend actually hides
Under 21 CFR 101.36, the federal rule for supplement labels, a manufacturer may group ingredients into a proprietary blend and print one total weight. The ingredients must be listed in descending order by weight. Their individual amounts do not have to be printed.
That is the rule Cognizil uses. The blend weighs 15.47 mg. Twenty-one ingredients share it. The order tells you maca weighs more than African mango, which weighs more than grape seed, and so on down to L-carnitine HCl. It does not tell you whether maca is half the blend or a twentieth of it.
There are real reasons a company does this. A formula is expensive to develop and a full breakdown hands it to a competitor. There is also an unhelpful reason, which is that a small amount of an expensive ingredient looks the same on a blend label as a large one.
We cannot tell you which reason applies here, because nobody outside the company can. What we can tell you is what the total means in practice.
What the 20:1 marks on the Cognizil label mean
Most of the extracts carry a caret, which the panel defines as a 20:1 extract equivalent. African mango carries a different mark for 10:1. This changes the arithmetic, and it is the part most critics of blend labels skip.
| Mark on the panel | What it means | Effect on the dose |
|---|---|---|
| ^ (most extracts) | Sourced from a concentrate with a 20:1 extract equivalent | 1 mg of extract stands in for roughly 20 mg of the raw plant |
| “ (African mango) | Sourced from a concentrate with a 10:1 extract equivalent | 1 mg stands in for roughly 10 mg of raw seed |
| No mark (amino acids, ginseng) | The ingredient itself, not a concentrate | 1 mg is 1 mg |
Run that across the whole blend and 15.47 mg of mostly 20:1 material is in the region of 300 mg of raw plant equivalent, shared between 21 ingredients. That is more than the raw number suggests and still well under the single-herb doses used in the studies we read. Both halves of that sentence are true and we are not going to print only one of them.
The three groups inside the Cognizil formula
Read as groups, the list makes more sense than it does as twenty-two separate names.
Adaptogens
Maca, Panax ginseng, eleuthero, astragalus and forskohlii. Plants studied in the context of stress, tiredness and mental workload. Results across trials are mixed, and one controlled study of eleuthero found no added benefit for concentration.
Amino acids
L-tyrosine, GABA, L-tryptophan, L-glutamine, L-arginine, beta alanine and L-carnitine HCl. Building blocks the body uses for messengers such as dopamine, noradrenaline and serotonin.
Metabolic support
Chromium, gymnema sylvestre, green tea, guarana, grapefruit seed, cayenne, raspberry ketones and African mango. A group that shows up more often in metabolism formulas than in memory ones, which is worth noticing.
The ingredients that look out of place, and why
Read the list end to end and a few names stand out. Raspberry ketones, African mango seed, cayenne pepper, forskohlii and gymnema sylvestre are all more familiar from weight and metabolism formulas than from memory ones.
There is a defensible story for that. Blood sugar that swings makes attention worse, and several of those ingredients are studied in blood sugar handling. Chromium sits in the same territory. Read charitably, the formula is aiming at steady energy underneath memory rather than at memory directly.
There is also a less flattering reading, which is that a single blend has been used across more than one product. We have no evidence either way, and it would be unfair of us to claim one.
Monoammonium glycyrrhizinate is the other name worth flagging. It comes from licorice and is used partly for taste. In large amounts over long periods licorice compounds can affect blood pressure and potassium. In a 15.47 mg blend the amount is very small, and if you already monitor your blood pressure it is still a fair thing to mention to your doctor.
What is not in Cognizil
No wheat, barley or rye ingredient appears on the panel, which is what the gluten-free seal reflects. No milk-derived ingredient appears, which is what the dairy-free seal reflects. No animal-derived ingredient appears, which is what the vegetarian seal reflects. No third-party certificate for any of those was supplied to us, so treat them as label claims rather than as audited results.
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What exactly is in Cognizil?
Chromium as chromium picolinate at 7 mcg, which is 20% of the Daily Value, plus a 15.47 mg proprietary blend of 21 herb extracts and amino acids. The other ingredients are water, natural flavors, potassium sorbate, stevia, xylitol and citrus extract.
Why does the label not show how much of each ingredient there is?
Because it uses a proprietary blend. Under 21 CFR 101.36 a blend may print one total weight, here 15.47 mg, with the ingredients listed in order of weight but without individual amounts. It is legal, and it does mean you cannot check the dose.
Is 15.47 mg a small amount?
Yes, measured against published research. Most of the extracts are 20:1 concentrates, so the raw plant equivalent is roughly twenty times larger, but single-herb trials on this list used hundreds of milligrams to several grams a day. We say so in full on the dosage page.
Does Cognizil contain caffeine?
Green tea leaf extract and guarana seed extract both naturally carry caffeine, so the answer is yes in principle. The amount is not published and the whole blend weighs 15.47 mg, so it is small. If you are sensitive to caffeine, it is still worth knowing it is there.
Does it contain alcohol?
No alcohol appears in the other-ingredients line. The base is water. An exact alcohol content was not published to us.
What does it taste like?
Not published. The panel shows natural flavors, citrus extract, stevia and xylitol, so it is sweetened and flavored, but no flavor name was supplied to us.
Is the xylitol a problem?
Not for people at this amount. It is toxic to dogs, so store the bottle where a pet cannot get to it. The label already asks you to keep it out of reach of children.
Ready to try Cognizil?
Two bottles covers the four to eight week window buyers describe. Six bottles is $1.63 a day and the 180-day guarantee covers the whole supply.
Add To CartSee pricingRegular price: not published. We only print prices we can see. · Shipping cost shown at checkout · No subscription