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Vitamin B12 1000mcg.

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

Vitamin B12 is the lead active here, studied most for steady daily energy. 17 human studies on Vitamin B12 back this formula, each one cited. Each serving carries 1,000 mcg of Vitamin B12, inside the range the published research used. Who it fits: skews toward women, adults.

Clinically dosedFull label disclosure
1Active ingredientWell studiedResearch base17Human studies
Vitamin B12 1000mcgVerified 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 B12: Steady daily energyKey driver

How we read this product

Source: Supplement facts
Supplement Facts panel for Vitamin B12 1000mcg
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    We read the label.

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

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    Every active, separately.

    All 1 actives checked against the clinical evidence: dose, form, and what the research actually shows.

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    Then the formula as a whole.

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

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    Earned, not bought.

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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
17
Human studies
1000 mcg
Vitamin B12
1 mg per serving sits inside the studied 250 mcg-1 mg range
Vitamin B12, NIH ODS + Allen 2009 B12 review

Cross-checked against 169 documented interactions for these actives.

Read the evidenceVitamin B12, the evidence →

Inside the formula

Vitamin B12
17 studies
Steady daily energy
Studied 250 mcg to 2 mg a day
Key driver
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

64% of US adults

aged 16 and older consumed caffeinated beverages daily, according to a Sleep Foundation survey fielded in 2023.

Sleep Foundation, 2023
The people it speaks toFieldwork 2024

19.5% of US adults aged 18 to 34

reported frequent fatigue, feeling very tired or exhausted most days or every day over the past three months, in the 2024 National Health Interview Survey.

CDC National Center for Health Statistics, 2026
Daily usePublished 2024

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
7 more
Vitamin B12

Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2025

Across 16 studies in 6,098 people, vitamin B12 supplementation raised serum B12 by about 403 pg/mL, and oral or sublingual doses raised it about as much as intramuscular injections.

Frontiers in Pharmacology
Vitamin B12

Systematic review, 2025

In adults with low B12 status, oral and injected B12 were both reported to raise blood B12, to a broadly similar degree across the included studies.

Systematic review
Vitamin B12

Meta-analysis, 2021

Across trials in adults who were not deficient, B12 supplementation showed no detectable improvement in cognitive test scores, mood scores or tiredness.

Meta-analysis
Vitamin B12

Meta-analysis, 2026

A review assessed vitamin B12 supplements for growth, development and thinking skills in children, reporting the pooled findings with their certainty level.

Meta-analysis

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 people17 human studies on Vitamin B12 back this formula, each one cited.
  • A mechanism that is settledHow Vitamin B12 works is settled pharmacology.
  • Recent work on the recordThe most recent study on this record was published in 2025.
  • Serving amount inside the studied rangeEach serving carries 1,000 mcg of Vitamin B12, inside the range the published research used.
  • A stated daily maintenance amountVitamin B12 is here at a daily maintenance amount, which is what a daily supplement is for.
  • Why this formatIt arrives as a finished, measured serving, so there is nothing to weigh or mix before you take it.
  • The exact form, describedThe form on the label is Cyanocobalamin. The record says what that form is and what it suits.
  • Full label disclosureEvery ingredient on this label carries its own declared amount.
  • Where it comes from and how it is madeVitamin B12 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.
How much it moves the numbers

The size of the effect, in plain numbers.

Where a trial measured an actual number, we show it next to the claim. It is the average across the trials, never a promise about one person.

Read at the source. The magnitude sits beside the same trial the claim already cites. It describes what the trials measured, never what any one person will feel.

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 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

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.

One ingredient, from its 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

Finished dose form

It arrives as a finished, measured serving, so there is nothing to weigh or mix before you take it.

Best forAny routine where a serving that is already measured is what makes it repeatable.
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.

Vitamin B-Complex 100 + Vitamin B12 1000mcgEstablished

Folate and B12 run the same reaction: the enzyme methionine synthase uses B12 to pass folate's methyl group to homocysteine, which rebuilds methionine and frees folate to keep cycling. Without enough B12 the methyl group stays locked on folate and the cycle stalls, which is why the two are routinely supplied together.

Settled one-carbon biochemistry. No combination trial has tested this exact pairing.

Vitamin B-Complex 100 + Vitamin B12 1000mcgEstablished

Biotin-dependent propionyl-CoA carboxylase and the B12-dependent methylmalonyl-CoA mutase run one after the other in propionate catabolism. A gap in either cofactor stalls the same route.

consecutive steps in one pathway. No combination trial has tested this exact pairing.

Questions shoppers ask

Is Vitamin B12 1000mcg 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 Vitamin B12 1000mcg?
Vitamin B12 1000mcg is built on Vitamin B12. Each ingredient links to its own evidence page on IngredientMD.
Were ingredient interactions checked?
Yes. The combination was screened against 169 documented interactions for these actives in IngredientMD's interaction database.
Who is IngredientMD?
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