A fragment of a food supplement label with following information: INGREDIENTS / ZUTATEN / INGREDIENTI / INGREDIENTES / INGREDIENTS EN Magnesium Bisglycinate Powder 250mg, (Providing 50mg of Magnesium) (13% NRV), Magnesium Citrate 161mg (Providing 50mg of magnesium) (13.33% NRV), Microcrystalline Cellulose PH/BD102, Magnesium stearate, HPMC Capsule.

Have you ever heard about electrides - ionic compounds in which an electron serves the role of the anion?

Do you know that you can simply buy an organometallic electride in form of a food supplement?

What, you don't trust me? Let me show with this stuff!

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A fragment of Mg bisglycinate food supplement for horses. Looks like its quality is much better then quality of human food supplement.

(I am speaking absolutely seriously)
I am browsing Mg supplements, most of the are rubbish, and suddenly found one with correct information. Looks like they actually did an analysis.

It is a food supplement for HORSES.
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This is the source of a new mineral in may collection - brucite, Mg(OH)₂. There is Mg bisglycinate dihydrate inside too, but nobody perfect.

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A fragment of the magnesium supplement label: Amount per serving Magnesium as magnesium chelate as magnesium citrate as magnesium malate as magnesium aspartate as magnesium taurate as magnesium lactate as magnesium glycinate

Can you spot what it wrong here?

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A bottle of a "Chelated Magnesium" food supplement on a few bricks.

Wow, I found brutally honest advertisement of a food supplement. Because to achieve 21% of Mg in magnesium biglycinate one indeed need to add few bricks (often contains MgO). (Theoretical max is 14.1% for anhydrous, really 11.7% for dihydrate)

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And we are back to the game, I got the parcel!

You have time till the evening to make guesses.

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So, your "High Absorption Magnesium" food supplement is not soluble in the mixture of concentrated nitric, sulphuric and hydrofluoric acid. I have two questions:

1. What exactly you added in it?
2. How I suppose to make ICP analysis?

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Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets on what I’ll find in these bottles.

Do not have a slightest idea for the moment, but I expect a lot of fun for less than 30 euros. Answers will come somewhere in two days. 5 test objects in total.

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