What is the cheapest NSF certified zinc?
Our picks, by labeled strength, with a link to buy them: see where to buy. A strength with nothing certified at it has no pick, and is not listed there.
BulkSupplements.com Zinc Picolinate Softgels 11 mg (240 count) is the cheapest per 15mg, at $0.125 before delivery, at $21.97 a container.
3 of the 26 zinc products we track have their exact package named in NSF's Certified for Sport database. That is a stricter test than “the brand is NSF certified”, and it is deliberately so: NSF lists package sizes against each certificate, and a size it does not name is not one it has stood behind. Each price is delivered where the retailer publishes a delivery rate and before delivery where it does not, and each row says which. This page counts NSF's Certified for Sport database only, because its listings name the package size, which lets us check the exact package on sale. Informed Sport and Informed Choice certify tested batches instead, a different way of answering the question rather than a lesser one.
Zinc Picolinate: 3 products
| Product | Per 15mg | Container | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| BulkSupplements.com Zinc Picolinate Softgels 11 mg (240 count) buy | $0.125 before delivery | $21.97 | not published |
| Thorne Zinc Picolinate 30 mg, NSF Certified for Sport (60 capsules) buy | $0.192 delivered | $23.00 | free |
| Momentous Zinc (60 capsules) buy | $0.333 before delivery | $19.99 | not published |
Listed, but at another package
NSF lists these products, and the listing names a package other than the one we price. Very likely the same formula; not a package NSF has put its name to.
- Thorne Zinc Picolinate 30 mg (180 capsules) ($0.114 per 15mg, delivered)
Cheapest among the 3 certified zinc packages we have checked, not the cheapest that exists. NSF certifies zinc from more brands than we carry, and our catalog is extended brand by brand, so a certified product we have not added yet cannot appear here however cheap it is.
Every brand in this category, by program: Which zinc brands are third-party tested? What is the cheapest zinc per dose? Zinc picolinate vs gluconate: what is the difference? Is BulkSupplements zinc NSF certified? Is Thorne zinc NSF certified?
Where to buy: the pick for each type
The pick is the cheapest certified product, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no adverse finding on record, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving; per delivered dose where the retailer publishes a delivery rate. Where none does, it is the cheapest such product before delivery, and it says how far the order is from free delivery. It is the same pick the category page shows.
How these lines are chosen
Among 1 product and 1 retailer listing we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below. No product here publishes a delivery rate below its free-delivery threshold, so the pick is priced before delivery.
How these lines are chosen
Among 2 products and 2 retailer listings we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below. No product here publishes a delivery rate below its free-delivery threshold, so the pick is priced before delivery.
How these lines are chosen
Among 6 products and 6 retailer listings we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below.
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, and carry no recall or failed test. Nothing we track here is yet. Each of these misses at least one bar, and says which:
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, and carry no recall or failed test. Nothing we track here is yet. Each of these misses at least one bar, and says which:
How these lines are chosen
Among 1 product and 1 retailer listing we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below.
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, and carry no recall or failed test. Nothing we track here is yet. Each of these misses at least one bar, and says which:
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, and carry no recall or failed test. Nothing we track here is yet. Each of these misses at least one bar, and says which:
Full comparison of every product in this category: Zinc. Every question we answer: the question index.
What this rests on: prices we last recorded at the retailer named on each product page, which go stale, and each page says when it was checked; the products we track, not every product sold, and Amazon and Walmart are not among the stores; listings and labels read at the source, each linked from the page. Found an error? Tell us. The full method: How we compare.