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CogniMary Ingredients: The Full List, Sorted by What You Can Check
By the CogniMary Editorial Desk · Medically reviewed by Dr. Harald Hampel, MD, PhD · Review date · Published · Last updated
CogniMary ingredients are fifteen actives in each 2-capsule serving. Four come with a printed amount: folate, vitamin B12, magnesium and chromium. The other eleven, cinnamon, ginkgo, bilberry, bacopa, green tea extract, berberine, L-theanine, alpha lipoic acid, GPC choline, lutein and zeaxanthin, share one 635 mg blend with no individual amounts. Read the four amounts as exact and the blend only as a total.
Key facts
- Fifteen actives: four with amounts, eleven inside the WMG-NVT Exclusive Blend.
- The blend weighs 635 mg in total. No single amount inside it is published.
- Two standardizations are printed: bacopa NLT 20% bacosides and green tea NLT 50% EGCG.
- Non-active items: a BSE-free gelatin shell, rice flour, silicon dioxide and magnesium stearate.
- The label shows no caffeine. An allergen statement is not published.
- The capsule is gelatin, so it is not vegetarian or vegan.
What is on the CogniMary ingredients list?
Open the Supplement Facts panel and you see a short top half and a crowded bottom half. The top half has four nutrients with numbers. The bottom half is one blend line with a single weight and eleven names under it.
Counting both halves gives fifteen active items. After them comes a short line of other ingredients that hold the capsule together.
In this guide we sort the list by one question: can you check it? That is more useful than reading names in order, because a name tells you little without an amount.
Which CogniMary ingredients have a printed amount?
Four do. These are the only ones you can set against published intake levels.
| Ingredient | Amount and form | Reference point |
|---|---|---|
| Folate | 600 mcg DFE, from 320 mcg folic acid (150% DV) | RDA 400 mcg DFE. Upper limit for folic acid 1,000 mcg a day. |
| Vitamin B12 | 240 mcg as cyanocobalamin (10,000% DV) | RDA 2.4 mcg. No upper limit set. |
| Magnesium | 250 mg as magnesium oxide (60% DV) | RDA 310 to 420 mg. Oxide is the least bioavailable common form, says NIH. |
| Chromium | 120 mcg as chromium picolinate (343% DV) | Adequate Intake 20 to 35 mcg. No upper limit set. |
Two notes make the table easier to read. First, the folate is folic acid, the synthetic form, not methylfolate. Second, a big percent Daily Value for B12 sounds dramatic, but it only compares 240 mcg with a tiny daily need of 2.4 mcg.
Which ingredients are hidden inside the 635 mg blend?
Eleven. The label lists them from the heaviest to the lightest. It prints no amount for any of them. The right-hand column shows the dose range that research papers have used, where the facts we hold give one.
| Order | Ingredient as printed | Published research dose |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cinnamon (Cinnamomum spp. bark extract) | Not supplied |
| 2 | Ginkgo biloba (leaf extract) | 120 to 240 mg a day |
| 3 | Bilberry (Vaccinium cyanococcus fruit extract) | Not supplied |
| 4 | Bacopa monnieri (whole plant extract, NLT 20% bacosides) | About 300 mg a day, 8 to 12 weeks |
| 5 | Green tea (leaf extract, NLT 50% EGCG) | Not supplied |
| 6 | Berberine HCl | About 500 mg, two or three times a day |
| 7 | L-theanine | 100 to 200 mg |
| 8 | Alpha lipoic acid (ALA) | 300 to 600 mg a day |
| 9 | GPC choline (alpha-glycerophosphorylcholine) | 400 to 1,200 mg a day |
| 10 | Lutein (marigold flower extract) | Not supplied |
| 11 | Zeaxanthin (marigold flower extract) | Not supplied |
Run your eye down the right-hand column and compare it with 635 mg. Ginkgo, bacopa and GPC choline at their lowest studied figures come to roughly 820 mg. Eleven ingredients cannot all sit at research doses inside 635 mg. The amount of each one in CogniMary is not published.
What do the two standardizations on the label tell you?
Two plant extracts carry a printed grade. Bacopa is listed as not less than 20% bacosides. Green tea extract is listed as not less than 50% epigallocatechin gallate, which is usually written EGCG.
A grade is useful. It says what share of the extract is the active compound the studies talk about. It does not say how much extract is in the capsule. A high grade of a tiny amount is still a tiny amount.
The other plant extracts, such as ginkgo and bilberry, carry no printed grade on this label.
What does the order of the list tell you?
US rules ask that ingredients inside a blend are listed in descending order by weight. So cinnamon weighs at least as much as ginkgo, ginkgo at least as much as bilberry, and so on down to zeaxanthin.
That is real information. It also has a limit. The order shows rank, not the size of the gaps. Cinnamon could be most of the blend or only a little more than the next item, and the label would look the same either way.
A simple habit helps. Treat the first few names as the ones the blend leans on, and the last few as small. Ginkgo is second on this list. Zeaxanthin is last.
What are the other ingredients, and is CogniMary caffeine free?
Four non-active items finish the list: BSE-free gelatin for the shell, rice flour, silicon dioxide and magnesium stearate. They help the powder fill the capsule and flow through the machine.
The gelatin comes from animals, so the capsule is not vegetarian and not vegan. No plant-based version is listed.
There is no caffeine on the label. The green tea extract is listed by its EGCG grade. Whether the product is free of gluten, soy or dairy is not published. The label carries no allergen statement beyond the ingredient list, so if you have an allergy, ask your clinician and the order desk before you buy.
Which ingredients need a safety check first?
A few names on the list deserve a pause if you take medicine. These cautions are not printed on the bottle, but they appear in the sources this site cites.
- Ginkgo: NCCIH says it may raise bleeding risk for people on anticoagulants such as warfarin.
- Green tea extract has been linked to rare liver injury, most often with capsule extracts, according to NCCIH. People with the HLA-B*35:01 gene variant appear more susceptible.
- Berberine, chromium, cinnamon and alpha lipoic acid can each affect blood glucose.
- Folic acid in high amounts can hide the blood signs of a B12 shortage, says NIH. This formula carries B12 as well.
The label itself says not to use CogniMary if you are pregnant or nursing, and to consult your healthcare provider before use.
Sources named on this page
- Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health. Folate - Health Professional Fact Sheet. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Folate-HealthProfessional/
- Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health. Vitamin B12 - Health Professional Fact Sheet. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminB12-HealthProfessional/
- Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health. Magnesium - Health Professional Fact Sheet. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Magnesium-HealthProfessional/
- Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health. Chromium - Health Professional Fact Sheet. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Chromium-HealthProfessional/
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Ginkgo. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/ginkgo
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Green Tea. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/green-tea
None of these sources tested CogniMary itself. They describe the named nutrients and plants, which is a different thing from testing this finished formula.
Frequently asked questions
What are the ingredients in CogniMary?
Four declared nutrients, folate, vitamin B12, magnesium and chromium, plus eleven items in a 635 mg blend: cinnamon, ginkgo, bilberry, bacopa, green tea extract, berberine, L-theanine, alpha lipoic acid, GPC choline, lutein and zeaxanthin.
How much bacopa is in CogniMary?
Not published. Bacopa sits inside the 635 mg blend, and the label gives no amount for it. It is listed fourth in the blend and is standardized to not less than 20% bacosides.
Does CogniMary contain caffeine?
No caffeine is shown on the label. The green tea extract is graded by its EGCG content.
Is CogniMary free of gluten, soy and dairy?
Not published. The label has no allergen statement beyond the ingredient list.
Is the magnesium in CogniMary a good form?
It is magnesium oxide, 250 mg. NIH says other forms, such as citrate, are absorbed more completely than oxide.
Which memory supplement ingredients have printed amounts?
Only folate, vitamin B12, magnesium and chromium. The memory-related botanicals share the blend, so their amounts are not published.
Our view
Read as a list of names, CogniMary looks rich. Read as a list of amounts, it is a four-nutrient capsule with a mystery blend attached. We think the second reading is the fair one.
That is not an attack on the product. Many formulas in this category use blends. It is a reason to match your expectations to the numbers you can see: a folate and B12 top-up, a sensible amount of magnesium in a less absorbed form, and chromium whose benefit the FDA calls highly uncertain.
If you need exact bacopa or alpha-GPC doses, choose a label that prints them. If you are happy with the blend as a bonus, the ingredient list is a fair match for a once-a-day capsule.
Last updated . Written by the CogniMary Editorial Desk and medically reviewed by Dr. Harald Hampel, MD, PhD. The review checks this page for accuracy. It is not an endorsement of the product and it is not personal medical advice.