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Magnesium glycinate and cinnamon
Magnesium glycinate and cinnamon have no documented interaction and are commonly sold together in combination products. This page covers the pairing itself; the research on what cinnamon does is covered elsewhere.
Magnesium glycinate and cinnamon have no documented interaction, and you can take them together. Some multi-ingredient tablets pair berberine, magnesium and Ceylon cinnamon in one capsule — if that's what brought you here, that's a specific combination product, not a claim that the three work better together than any one of them alone.
What each is
Magnesium glycinate is a mineral bound to the amino acid glycine, sold to provide elemental magnesium. Cinnamon is a spice — usually either cassia or Ceylon bark — sold as a supplement in capsule or extract form, separate from its use in cooking. They're chemically unrelated: one is a mineral, the other a plant bark. Nothing in the supplement-interaction literature documents them affecting each other's absorption or safety.
About combination tablets
Some brands sell a single tablet listing berberine, magnesium glycinate and Ceylon cinnamon together, usually marketed around metabolic health. Combining ingredients in one capsule is a formulation and convenience decision — it isn't evidence that the combination does more than each ingredient does on its own, and no trial we're aware of has tested that specific three-ingredient combination against a placebo or against the ingredients individually. What the research says about cinnamon and about berberine on their own is covered on their own pages, linked below, rather than repeated here.
One label detail worth knowing if you're comparing products: cassia cinnamon, the type most commonly sold, contains more coumarin than Ceylon cinnamon. That distinction matters most at cinnamon's own higher gram-level doses; it isn't a magnesium consideration.
Our product
Electric Tiger Magnesium Glycinate is a single-ingredient product — 275 mg of elemental magnesium per three-capsule serving, from 2,500 mg of magnesium glycinate, as low as $16.31 a bottle on subscription. It doesn't contain cinnamon or any other botanical.
Questions people ask
Can I take magnesium glycinate and cinnamon together?
Yes. There's no documented interaction between them, whether taken as separate supplements or as ingredients in the same tablet.
What is a berberine, magnesium glycinate and Ceylon cinnamon tablet?
It's a combination product some brands sell that lists all three in one capsule. It's a formulation choice; no trial we found tested that exact three-ingredient combination as a single product.
Is Ceylon cinnamon better than cassia for this kind of product?
Ceylon cinnamon contains less coumarin than cassia, which is the main label distinction between the two types. That's a cinnamon-specific question — see the cinnamon research pages below for what's studied about cinnamon itself.
Related reading
- What is cinnamon?
- Cinnamon: what the research does and doesn't show
- Blood sugar supplements: what the evidence supports
- How much magnesium glycinate should you take a day?
Sources
- Electric Tiger Magnesium Glycinate Supplement Facts: product page.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
