Comment · Fri, October 17, 2025 · ND Owner
Albion/Balchem's Glycinate Minerals (trademarked as "TRAACS")
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daniel989898 · 4 points
Anyone know if ND has tested any of Albion/Balchem's glycinate minerals? I ask because my partner and I are using InfiniLyte as a multi-mineral, I'd like to add additional iron/molybdenum glycinate with InfiniLyte to complete the full trace mineral picture.
Albion/Balchem offer both of these, though I've noticed that ND doesn't stock any of their minerals. This could mean nothing at all, or that there's a reason for the omission.
For context, the iron is only for my partner. I'm aware that iron toxicity is a serious concern for men supplementing with iron.
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daniel989898 · 3 points
Gotcha, thanks for your response. I initially though that the omission from the product lineup might've been to do with dodgy test results or something.
Regarding the "TRAACS" marketing lingo, it is definitely bullshit haha. No more real than a competitor glycinate chelate. I also find it a bit strange/suspicious that Balchem/Albion's zinc, iron, and magnesium glycinate are all exactly 20% elemental content w/w... surely this is impossible without some kind of "buffering" shenanigans.
Thanks for the iron recommendation as well! Understandable, yet unfortunate, that they'd want to keep their sucrosomial iron exclusive. This whole time I just assumed that you guys didn't stock iron due to legal risks or some other red tape reason.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Exactly. You are correct in saying you can't reach 20% across all those without buffering. Fully chelated magnesium glycinate is 14.1%. That's actually magnesium bisglycinate, meaning two glycines per magnesium. Any higher than that means there is free magnesium in there in some fashion. Albion does do glycinate/lysinate as well, and fully chelated magnesium lysinate is 7.7% elemental magnesium. Again, it is bislysinate. This means mixing the two together in any fashion will LOWER the elemental % down from 14.1%. To get up to 20%, you have to buffer up with magnesium oxide. We only use fully chelated raw materials. We never buffer.