Choline

55 mg in Essential Prenatal

SourceVerona, Missouri

FormCholine Bitartrate

Found inEggs, soybeans, fish, mushrooms, and potatoes

ManufacturerBalchem

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Benefits

Brain Health*

Central Nervous System*

Our Choline is clinically studied in pregnancy and is made up of nature-identical tartrate from grapes instead of synthetic tartrate.

Choline works with folate to supply methyl groups used to make MTHF.*

+Folate

Evidence-Based or Bust

We use nutrients backed by a significant body of research that is growing every day. Of the thousands of unaffiliated studies our in-house scientists sorted through to guide our choices, the titles below are the most relevant MVPs.

Pregnancy alters choline dynamics: results of a randomized trial using stable isotope methodology in pregnant and nonpregnant women - 2013

Cornell University

Choline intake during pregnancy and child cognition at age 7 years - 2013

Harvard School of Public Health

Micronutrient Intake Is Inadequate for a Sample of Pregnant Women - 2017

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Metabolomics of Human Amniotic Fluid and Maternal Plasma during Normal Pregnancy - 2016

Wroclaw Medical University

Maternal choline supplementation during the third trimester of pregnancy improves infant information processing speed: a randomized, double-blind, controlled feeding study - 2018

Cornell University

Early second trimester maternal plasma choline and betaine are related to measures of early cognitive development in term infants - 2012

University of British Columbia

There are 37,174 studies on Choline and counting

Substantiation is a living, breathing thing. We are constantly reviewing new research. Have a study you think we should take a look at? Send it our way: [email protected]

Essential Prenatal

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