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.
The formula is genuinely complex because there are two bottles doing two different jobs. AM is the activator bottle — B vitamins, vitamin A, vitamin C, polyphenols, choline, inositol. PM is the recovery and mineral bottle — fat-soluble vitamins, the bulk minerals, antioxidants. The VM114NC SKU you might be looking at is the no-copper version; the standard one has copper.
Active Ingredients
The actives across both bottles, in plain language:
- AM bottle — the B vitamins in their active forms (the kind your body can use without conversion), plus vitamin A, vitamin C, choline and inositol, decaf green-tea polyphenols, quercetin
- PM bottle — vitamin D3, mixed-tocopherol vitamin E, vitamin K2 (two forms, MK-4 and MK-7), calcium, magnesium, zinc, the trace minerals (selenium, chromium, manganese, molybdenum, boron), alpha-lipoic acid, CoQ10, the eye-supporting carotenoids
- What's not in it: no iron, no titanium dioxide colorant, no shellac, no magnesium stearate filler — Thorne keeps the inactive ingredients short on purpose
- VM114NC version: no copper; regular version: has copper bisglycinate
- B-vitamin doses are physiologic, not the megadoses that some MTHFR-targeted products use — that matters if you've reacted to high-dose methylated B vitamins before
Other Ingredients (Excipients)
The inactive ingredients list is short: hypromellose for the capsule shell, microcrystalline cellulose, leucine, and silicon dioxide. No titanium dioxide, no magnesium stearate, no synthetic dyes, no shellac glaze. Whether that matters to you depends on how strict you are about excipients; Thorne keeps its inactive lists shorter than most multivitamin brands.
Allergens and Sensitivities
No gluten, no dairy, no soy. The capsule is plant-based (hypromellose). The green-tea extract is decaffeinated, but if you're caffeine-sensitive at very low doses you might still notice the residual handful of milligrams. Vegetarians are fine; vegans should double-check the current vitamin D3 source with Thorne since they switch between lanolin-derived and lichen-derived D3 across their catalog over time. NSF Certified for Sport means it's tested for athletic-banned substances if that matters for your work or sport.
Sourcing and Quality Notes
Thorne is based in Summerville, South Carolina, and they manufacture their own product. They publish source-country information for major raw materials on their website, which most mass-market brands don't. The TGA registration (an Australian pharmaceutical regulator) and NSF Certified for Sport status both mean third-party testing — independent labs confirming what's on the label matches what's in the bottle. That's a meaningful step above the US-only cGMP baseline that any compliant supplement brand meets. The full the full Thorne Multi-Vitamin Elite review covers the supply-chain question in more detail. A practitioner's evaluation of Thorne's sourcing standards is included in this the full Thorne Multi-Vitamin Elite review.
How Ingredients Compare to Similar Products
Where Multi-Vitamin Elite sits in the practitioner-multivitamin landscape: similar quality to Pure Encapsulations O.N.E. Multivitamin and Designs for Health Twice Daily Multi, with different design philosophy. O.N.E. is once-daily simplicity in a single pill. Twice Daily Multi is methylation-aware in a smaller two-capsule daily dose. Multi-Vitamin Elite's distinguishing thing is the AM/PM chronobiological split — a fuller mineral and antioxidant load than competitors, but at the cost of six capsules a day across two doses. Cheaper option: Klean Athlete Klean Multivitamin (NSF Certified, simpler, less polyphenol load). Higher-touch option: Metagenics PhytoMulti for heavy polyphenol emphasis.
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