Multi-Vitamin Elite Ingredients

A line-by-line look at what's inside Thorne Multi-Vitamin Elite A.M. & P.M. (VM114NC), including active components and excipients.

Multi-Vitamin Elite uses bioavailable forms throughout — vitamins in their active circulating forms, minerals in chelated forms closer to how nutrients appear in food. The polyphenols are direct plant extracts. The excipients are minimal.

Active Ingredients

Active constituents from a whole-foods-form perspective:

• B vitamins in food-equivalent active forms — methylcobalamin (not synthetic cyanocobalamin), L-5-MTHF (not synthetic folic acid), P-5-P (not pyridoxine), R-5-P (not riboflavin); these are the same molecules the body produces from food-derived precursors
• Mineral chelates close to food form — calcium citrate-malate, magnesium citrate-malate, zinc bisglycinate; better absorbed than oxide and carbonate forms; closer to how minerals show up in food chemistry
• Vitamin A as mixed carotenoid plus retinyl palmitate — the carotenoid component mirrors plant-source provitamin A; the retinyl component mirrors animal-source preformed A; the balance avoids both pure-carotenoid limitations and high-dose retinyl-only concerns
• Vitamin K2 in both MK-4 (animal-form) and MK-7 (fermentation-derived) — covers the differential tissue distribution between the two menaquinones
• Polyphenols as direct plant extract — decaffeinated green-tea catechins, quercetin — not synthetic analogs
• VM114NC SKU — copper omitted (standard SKU includes copper bisglycinate)
• No iron — food-source iron from red meat, organ meats, legumes is generally a better strategy when iron is needed

Other Ingredients (Excipients)

The inactive ingredient list reflects whole-foods-aligned preferences: hypromellose capsule shell (plant-derived), microcrystalline cellulose, leucine, silicon dioxide. Absent: magnesium stearate (frequently flagged in holistic circles), titanium dioxide (recently restricted in EU food applications), shellac glazes, synthetic colorants. The shorter excipient list reduces the surface area for inactive-ingredient sensitivities.

Allergens and Sensitivities

Multi-Vitamin Elite is gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, and the capsule is plant-derived. Vegetarian users are clear; vegan users should confirm the current vitamin D3 source (lanolin-derived versus lichen-derived) per lot. The green-tea extract is decaffeinated. NSF Certified for Sport adds athletic-banned-substance testing per batch. Patients with documented salicylate sensitivity occasionally react to quercetin.

Sourcing and Quality Notes

Thorne's in-house manufacturing in Summerville, South Carolina includes TGA-registered facility status and NSF Certified for Sport batch testing. The company publishes raw-material source countries on its product pages — a transparency level above mass-market brands but below small-batch wild-harvested boutiques. Multi-Vitamin Elite has been a stable catalog SKU with infrequent disclosed reformulations. The the holistic practitioner's Multi-Vitamin Elite review covers the supply-chain transparency in clinical detail. A practitioner's evaluation of Thorne's sourcing standards is included in this the holistic practitioner's Multi-Vitamin Elite review.

How Ingredients Compare to Similar Products

From a whole-foods-aligned formulary perspective, Multi-Vitamin Elite competes with Pure Encapsulations O.N.E. (cleaner excipient profile, less mineral coverage, single-pill simplicity), Designs for Health Twice Daily Multi (methylation-aware, smaller daily dose, no chronobiological split), MegaFood Multi for Men or Multi for Women (food-cultured multivitamin, lower potency, closer to true food-form supplementation), and Garden of Life Mykind Organics Multivitamin (organic, whole-food-cultured, lower potency). Multi-Vitamin Elite sits between high-potency concentrated practitioner formulas and true food-cultured low-potency formulas — closer to the practitioner-formula end of that spectrum.

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