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Nutricost Bacopa Monnieri 1,000 mg Review
#4 of 8 · Best High-Dose✓ Label verified · Supplement Facts read Sep 20, 2026Real retailer photo, cut out. Label unedited.
Buy it if you want a high-bacoside generic extract with testing; halve the dose. Fifty percent bacosides is a strong standard, it is printed, and the product is third-party tested in a vegetarian capsule.
$16-18~$0.28 per 2-capsule serving (1,000 mg, 50% bacosides)
Why It Scores 8.4 — And The Label Line Behind Each Number
Studied Extract & Dose
30% of score
A generic extract at 1,000 mg per serving is more than three times the studied dose and not a named trial extract; a strong standard, but an untested amount.
- Per serving
- 1,000 mg Bacopa monnieri extract (herb)
Standardization Disclosure
20% of score
Standardized to 50 percent bacosides is printed on the panel, the second-highest declared standard on the list.
- Standardization
- 50% bacosides (printed)
- Seals
- Non-GMO, gluten-free, vegetarian, third party tested, GMP compliant facility (gallery)
Testing & Manufacturing
20% of score
Third Party Tested, GMP compliant facility, non-GMO and gluten-free seals in the gallery; the lab is not named.
Formulation & Form
15% of score
Hypromellose capsule with microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate, rice flour and silica; vegetarian.
- Form
- Hypromellose (cellulose) capsule
- Other ingredients
- Hypromellose capsule, microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate (vegetable source), rice flour, silica
Value
15% of score
About $0.28 per two-capsule serving, or $0.14 if you take one capsule.
- Serving
- 2 capsules
- Count
- 120 capsules (60 servings)
- Cost per dose
- ~$0.28 per 2 capsules
Label verified. Every figure read from the Supplement Facts photo, Sep 20, 2026.
Marketing Claims Vs. Reality
Standardized to 50% bacosides.
Printed on the Supplement Facts panel for the 1,000 mg extract per serving.
Third party tested.
Third Party Tested and GMP compliant facility appear in the gallery quality seals; no lab is named.
Clinically studied dose.
The label serving is 1,000 mg of a 50 percent extract; the memory trials used about 300 mg of standardized extract a day. No trial has tested this amount.
What Our Test Actually Found
A lot of bacosides
Five hundred milligrams of bacosides a day is several times what the twelve-week trials delivered. More is not known to be better, and bacopa’s nausea and cramping are dose-related; one capsule is the sensible serving.
Good label discipline for a budget brand
A printed standard, a vegetarian capsule and third-party testing at fourteen to twenty-eight cents a day is more than most generic bacopas offer. The dose design is the only thing to argue with.
Full analysis: all pros & cons (7), buy if / skip if
- 50 percent bacosides printed
- Third-party tested, GMP, vegetarian capsule
- Cheap per milligram
- 120 capsules per bottle
- Label serving is three times the studied dose
- Generic extract, not a named trial material
- Five excipients
- You want a printed 50 percent bacoside standard
- You want third-party testing and a vegetarian capsule at a low price
- You are happy to take one capsule instead of the two-capsule label serving
- You want a clinically studied extract by name
- You have a sensitive stomach; bacopa’s GI effects scale with dose
- You want the trial dose without doing arithmetic
Fifty percent bacosides is a strong standard, it is printed, and the product is third-party tested in a vegetarian capsule. But 1,000 mg of a 50 percent extract is roughly three times the bacoside load of the trial capsules, and bacopa’s main side effect is gastrointestinal. One capsule a day is closer to the evidence and halves the cost.
Nutricost’s bacopa is built for people who want numbers: 1,000 mg Bacopa monnieri herb extract standardized to 50 percent bacosides per two-capsule serving, 60 servings from 120 hypromellose capsules, with microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate, rice flour and silica as other ingredients. Non-GMO, gluten-free, vegetarian, third-party tested and GMP-compliant-facility seals are in the gallery. The catch is that 500 mg of bacosides a day is far beyond anything the trials gave.
The high-dose generic, best taken at half the label
A well-labelled, tested, vegetarian bacopa whose serving size ignores the trials. Take one capsule a day and it becomes a sensible, cheap standardized extract. Take two and you are running an experiment nobody has published.
If This Doesn’t Fit — Try These
01Doctor’s Best Synapsa
If you take bacopa for the memory effect the trials measured, this is the capsule that most closely reproduces them, and it says so on the panel.
02Swanson BaCognize
If the trial extract matters and the price matters more, Swanson’s BaCognize gets you both for about twenty cents a day.
03Nootropics Depot Synapsa
If who tested it matters most, this is the bacopa to buy.
Quick Answers
Should I take two Nutricost Bacopa capsules a day?
The label says two, which is 1,000 mg of a 50 percent extract, several times the bacoside load of the trial capsules. One capsule a day is closer to the evidence and gentler on the stomach.
Is Nutricost Bacopa vegetarian?
Yes. The capsule is hypromellose and the panel carries a vegetarian seal.
Sources & Further Reading
2 peer-reviewed sources, each linked to PubMed
- [1] Calabrese C, et al. J Altern Complement Med. 2008;14(6):707-13. PMID 18611150 — Effects of a standardized Bacopa monnieri extract on cognitive performance, anxiety, and depression in the elderly: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Twelve weeks of 300 mg a day of a standardized Bacopa extract improved delayed word recall and reduced anxiety and heart rate in healthy older adults; increased stool frequency, cramping and nausea were the reported side effects.
- [2] Kongkeaw C, et al. J Ethnopharmacol. 2014;151(1):528-35. PMID 24252493 — Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on cognitive effects of Bacopa monnieri extract. Pooling nine randomized trials with 518 participants, Bacopa extract improved speed of attention, shortening Trail B time and choice reaction time, with other cognitive domains showing smaller or inconsistent effects.
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