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Blood Builder.

Strong evidence, strong doseMegaFood, verified Oct 2026Formula verified. Independently reviewed.Independent review. Not commissioned by MegaFood.

Iron is the lead active here, studied most for oxygen delivery to working muscle. 17 human studies on Iron back this formula, each one cited. Each serving carries 680 mcg of Folate, inside the range the published research used. Who it fits: skews toward women, adults.

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5Active ingredientsWell studiedResearch base78Human studies
Blood BuilderVerified by IngredientMD
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The verdict
Strong evidence, strong dose
For Skews toward women, adults.
How we verify

The brand submits the formula. We read the supplement facts panel and weigh dose, form and synergy against the clinical evidence. Labs test. IngredientMD verifies. The fee pays for review time, never for the outcome.

The formula
Vitamin C: Iron statusExtensively studied
Folate: MethylationExtensively studied
Vitamin B12: Oxygen delivery to working muscleExtensively studied
Iron: Oxygen delivery to working muscleKey driver
Beet Root: Physical performanceWell studied

How we read this product

Source: Supplement facts
Supplement Facts panel for Blood Builder
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    We read the label.

    The panel on the left is the one we evaluated, line by line.

  2. 02
    Every active, separately.

    All 5 actives checked against the clinical evidence: dose, form, and what the research actually shows.

  3. 03
    Then the formula as a whole.

    Doses, ratios, and how the ingredients work together. That assessment is the verdict above: "Strong evidence, strong dose".

  4. 04
    Earned, not bought.

    The verdict is public and identical whether or not a brand pays. A formula that does not clear the bar gets nothing.

Read by the engine against 2.1 million data points from clinical trials, PubMed and more than a hundred vetted sources. No individual reviewer is named or implied.

The receipts

Well studied
Research base
78
Human studies
26 mg
Iron
15 mg
Vitamin C
680 mcg per serving sits inside the studied 400 mcg-800 mcg range
Folate, NIH ODS + Bailey 2015 review
26 mg per serving sits inside the studied 18 mg-27 mg range
Iron, NIH ODS + WHO guidelines

Cross-checked against 1,652 documented interactions for these actives.

Read the evidenceVitamin C, the evidence →Folate, the evidence →Vitamin B12, the evidence →Iron, the evidence →Beet Root, the evidence →

Inside the formula

Vitamin C
20 studies
Iron status
Extensively studied
Folate
12 studies
Methylation
Studied 400 mcg to 1 mg a day
Extensively studied
Vitamin B12
17 studies
Oxygen delivery to working muscle
Extensively studied
Iron
17 studies
Oxygen delivery to working muscle
Studied 18 mg to 45 mg a day
Key driver
Beet Root
12 studies
Physical performance
Well studied
In context

The gap this formula speaks to.

Public health figures the engine matched to this formula's ingredients. Reported by their source, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

The people it speaks toFieldwork 2023

21.1% of the US population

aged 15 and over took part in sports, exercise, or recreation on an average day in 2023, in the American Time Use Survey.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024
This formulaNHANES 2017-2018, published 2021

57.6%

During 2017 to 2018, 57.6% of US adults aged 20 and over reported using a dietary supplement in the past 30 days.

CDC National Center for Health Statistics
22 more
Daily use

59 to 66 days

was the median time it took adults to make a new daily health habit automatic across the studies a 2024 review pooled, with individuals ranging from 4 to 335 days.

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2024
Beet Root

Meta-analysis, 2021

Across 34 trials, dietary nitrate produced a small gain in muscular endurance and a very small gain in strength, with larger endurance gains for isometric and isotonic than isokinetic contractions.

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
Beet Root

Systematic review, 2025

A systematic review of beetroot juice in older adults reported improvements in physical performance measures and some cognitive tests, with effects described as small and variable between trials.

Nutrients
Iron

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2018

In iron-deficient adults with normal hemoglobin, iron supplements lowered self-reported fatigue, with no measurable change in how much oxygen the body could use during intense exercise.

BMJ Open
Folate

Randomised trial, 2007

In 818 adults aged 50 to 70 with raised homocysteine, 3 years of daily folic acid at 800 micrograms improved memory and information-processing speed scores compared with placebo.

The Lancet
Iron

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2025

In iron-deficient children, adolescents and menstruating adults with normal hemoglobin, iron supplementation improved short-term memory in randomized trials.

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Folate

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023

Across 21 trials in 2,025 adults, folic acid improved flow-mediated dilation, a measure of how well arteries widen, by about 2.6 percentage points.

Nutrition Journal
Iron

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2014

In women of reproductive age, daily iron raised how much oxygen the body could use during hard exercise and lowered heart rate during moderate exercise by about 4 beats a minute.

The Journal of Nutrition
Beet Root

Meta-analysis, 2022

Across 123 trials in 1,705 healthy adults, dietary nitrate produced a small improvement in exercise performance, with the clearest gains in efforts lasting 2 to 10 minutes from beetroot juice or a high-nitrate diet.

Advances in Nutrition
Iron

Meta-analysis, 2025

Alternate-day oral iron raised haemoglobin to a broadly similar degree as daily dosing in the pooled trials, with fewer digestive complaints reported.

Meta-analysis
Beet Root

Meta-analysis, 2017

Beetroot juice lowered resting blood pressure by about 3.6 over 1.3 mmHg across 22 trials, with bigger drops at higher doses and longer use.

Advances in Nutrition
Folate

About 23 percent lower plasma homocysteine at 0.8 mg daily, with 0.2 mg and 0.4 mg reaching roughly 60 and 90 percent of that

Lowers homocysteine, a blood marker tied to heart risk. Measured in adults, standardised to a pretreatment homocysteine of 12 micromol per litre (95% CI 21 to 26 percent).

Meta-analysis
Folate

Meta-analysis, 2026

Pooling 26 studies, about 26.9 percent of adolescent girls worldwide had low folate status, rising to 35.5 percent in Africa, with wide variation between settings.

PLoS One
Iron

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2016

Across 67 randomized trials in menstruating women, daily iron raised hemoglobin by about 5.3 g/L and lowered the risk of iron deficiency compared with control.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Population figures from public health data. Context for the category, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

What this formula earned

Every one of these is a fact the engine could ground.

Each line below was derived from this formula's own record at the time of verification. Nothing here was written by the brand, and nothing can be added that the evidence does not carry.

  • Studied in people20 human studies on Vitamin C back this formula, each one cited.
  • A mechanism that is settledHow Vitamin C and Folate work is settled pharmacology.
  • Studied together, not just separatelyVitamin C and Vitamin B12 have been studied together, not only separately.
  • Recent work on the recordThe most recent study on this record was published in 2025.
  • Serving amount inside the studied rangeEach serving carries 680 mcg of Folate, inside the range the published research used.
  • A stated daily maintenance amountFolate is here at a daily maintenance amount, which is what a daily supplement is for.
  • Why this formatIt is a tablet, so the amount per serving is fixed and it stores well.
  • An absorption partner in the same servingIron is in the same serving as Vitamin C, where it has a measured absorption role.
  • Full label disclosureEvery ingredient on this label carries its own declared amount.
  • Where it comes from and how it is madeVitamin C is made by fermentation.
  • Positions this formula already qualifies forThis formula already qualifies for positions beyond the one it is sold into, on the evidence it carries.
  • A position nobody is holding yetSome of those positions are ones almost nobody is selling to yet.
  • Interaction screen on the recordEvery active on this label was screened against the interaction record, and the screen is published with it.
Studied together

The combinations the trials actually measured.

One pairing in this formula has been studied as a combination in human trials. Each finding below is what a named study measured, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

  • Iron + Vitamin CAbsorption

    In a controlled radioiron study in 63 men, adding ascorbic acid to a non-heme iron meal increased iron absorption in proportion to the dose, from about 1.6 times the meal alone at 25 mg to about 9 times at 1000 mg.

    Promising

Research strength. Research strength says how much work stands behind the combination. It is never a product score.

Fail closed. Where actives were studied on their own rather than together, each shows on its own evidence, never a combined effect no trial measured.

Independent record. Every finding is cited to a named trial, dated, and never written by the brand.

Findings from trials that studied these actives as a combination. Context for how the actives were tested together, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

What the trials show

What the trials show about timing.

Time-to-effect windows the engine read from the trial record. Each is a window a named study measured, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

  • Vitamin Cwithin 24 hours of a single doseMeasured within a day

    In a randomised crossover trial, 12 healthy adults consumed 101.7 mg of vitamin C as a powder, as raw fruits and vegetables, or as juice, and plasma vitamin C rose after every intake form, with plasma and urinary levels tracked over the 24 hours following the single dose.

    Strong
  • Folatea median of about 36 weeks of daily intakeBuilds with daily use

    A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis drew on 108 articles from 14,002 screened records and modelled blood folate against folic acid intake using one-compartment pharmacokinetic models. Red blood cell folate rose 1.78 fold from baseline to steady state at 375 to 570 ug folic acid per day, and reaching that steady state took a median of 36 weeks, 95% credible interval 27 to 52 weeks. Serum or plasma folate rose 11.6% for every 100 ug per day of folic acid intake, 95% credible interval 8.4 to 14.9.

    Strong
  • Folateabout 18 days for serum folate to reach its maximumBuilds with daily use

    A kinetic study in six healthy men aged 22 to 31 gave 3.6 umol per day, 1.6 mg, of deuterium-labelled folic acid for four weeks, with folate tracked in serum, erythrocytes and urine by microbiological assay and gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Serum folate reached its maximum concentration in about 18 days, while isotopic labelling of erythrocyte folate kept rising across the whole four weeks. After supplementation stopped, red blood cell folate and urinary folate excretion declined linearly, and serum folate fell with a slow-phase half-life of 18.7 days. One study, six men, no control group.

    Early
  • Vitamin B12about 16 weeks of daily oral useBuilds with daily use

    A randomised, double-blind, parallel-group dose-finding trial in 120 older people with mild vitamin B12 deficiency, defined as serum B12 of 100 to 300 pmol/L with methylmalonic acid at or above 0.26 umol/L, gave daily oral cyanocobalamin at 2.5, 100, 250, 500 or 1000 ug for 16 weeks. Mean plasma methylmalonic acid fell 16%, 16%, 23%, 33% and 33% across those doses. Daily doses of 647 to 1032 ug accounted for 80% to 90% of the estimated maximum reduction. The window was measured on a blood marker of B12 status, not on a symptom.

    Promising
  • Vitamin B12serum levels peak about seven hours after a single tabletMeasured within a day

    An open-label randomised single-dose pharmacokinetic study in 20 healthy men aged 20 to 45, conducted and authored by staff of Emisphere Technologies, the developer of the SNAC carrier under test, measured serum vitamin B12 after one 5 mg cyanocobalamin tablet, with six men on the marketed tablet. Time to peak serum B12 was 6.83 hours for the marketed tablet and 0.5 hours for the carrier coformulation. Absolute bioavailability was 2.16% and 5.09% respectively. One trial, six men per arm. Serum concentration was measured, not any symptom.

    Early
  • Ironwithin 24 hours of a single doseMeasured within a day

    A randomised crossover study in 54 nonanemic young women with plasma ferritin at or below 20 ug/L gave labelled iron sulfate as single fasting morning doses of 40, 60, 80, 160 and 240 mg. Twenty four hours after doses of 60 mg or more, serum hepcidin was raised and fractional iron absorption from the following dose was 35% to 45% lower. Across the dose range a sixfold rise in dose, 40 to 240 mg, produced a threefold rise in iron absorbed, 6.7 to 18.1 mg. Total iron absorbed from three doses inside 24 hours was not significantly greater than from two morning doses. The measure was iron absorption and serum hepcidin, not a symptom.

    Promising

Windows measured in the cited trials. Context for how the active behaves over time, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

General timing

How each ingredient usually behaves over time.

Five ingredients, from each one's own page.

How each ingredient usually behaves over time, from its own page on IngredientMD. General timing for the ingredient, not a measurement of this product.

Format

Tablet

It is a tablet, so the amount per serving is fixed and it stores well.

Best forHigh-dose minerals and anything needing timed or delayed release.
From the same shelf

Studied alongside this brand's other formulas

Where two of this brand's products carry actives the literature has read together, the pairing and its basis are below. The evidence word is the corpus row's own confidence, never a score.

Baby & Me 2 + Blood BuilderEstablished

Choline, by way of betaine, and folate run two separate routes that both remethylate homocysteine into methionine, so each can carry more of the load when the other runs low. Having both available keeps the body's methyl-group supply steady.

Parallel methyl-donor routes. No combination trial has tested this exact pairing.

Recurring supply suggested

Because the effect builds and holds only with continued daily use, a steady recurring supply is the practical way to keep it going.

Questions shoppers ask

Is Blood Builder independently verified?
Yes. IngredientMD reviewed this formula independently and verified it in Oct 2026. The verdict is earned, not bought: brands can't edit or purchase it.
What's in Blood Builder?
Blood Builder is built on Vitamin C, Folate, Vitamin B12, Iron, Beet Root. Each ingredient links to its own evidence page on IngredientMD.
Were ingredient interactions checked?
Yes. The combination was screened against 1,652 documented interactions for these actives in IngredientMD's interaction database.
Who is IngredientMD?
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