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Glycine in food supplements

1,122 supplements declared in France contain Glycine as a substance or active ingredient.

Compl'Alim declarations. Compl'Alim, food supplement declarations (France), retrieved 23 October 2026.

What we know about this ingredient

Uses

  • AS A BUFFERING AGENT; IN SYNTHESES

  • MEDICATION: DIETARY SUPPLEMENT FOR BODY BUILDING PROTEINS; NUTRIENT; INTRAVENOUS FEEDING; IRRIGATING FLUID IN TRANSURETHRAL REMOVAL OF PROSTATE; BUFFERING COMPOUND IN ANTACID PREPN

  • Organic synthesis, nutrient, biochemical research, buffering agent, chicken-feed additive, reduces bitter taste of saccharin, retards rancidity in animal and vegetable fats.

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Patty, F. (ed.). Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology: Volume II: Toxicology. 2nd ed. New York: Interscience Publishers, 1963., p. 1804; SRI; Lewis, R.J., Sr (Ed.). Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary. 13th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997., p. 545.

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Use classification

  • EPA Safer Chemical Functional Use Classes -> Processing Aids and Additives

  • Safer Chemical Classes -> Green circle - The chemical has been verified to be of low concern

  • Cosmetics -> Hair conditioning; Skin conditioning; Antistatic; Buffering

PubChem : EPA Safer Choice · 2026-10-29 · https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/safer-ingredients.

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PubChem : NORMAN Suspect List Exchange · 2026-10-29 · S13 | EUCOSMETICS | Combined Inventory of Ingredients Employed in Cosmetic Products (2000) and Revised Inventory (2006) | DOI:10.5281/zenodo.2624118.

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Plant-derived material.

Basis: INCIInternational name of cosmetic ingredients: the one printed on the pack. name of a plant or plant part.

CosIng, inventory of cosmetic ingredients (INCI names, CAS, EC, functions), retrieved 11 November 2026.

Natural occurrence recorded in Wikidata (LOTUS database): 125 taxa; examples: Morchella angusticeps, Morchella crassipes, Allium sativum, Citrus grandis, Citrus medica.

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Manufacturing

  • FROM HYDROBROMIC ACID PLUS METHYLENEAMINOACETONITRILE: CLARKE, TAYLOR, ORG SYNTH, 4, 31 (1925); FROM CHLOROACETIC ACID PLUS AMMONIA: ORTEN, HILL, ORG SYNTH, COLL VOL I, 2ND EDITION, 300 (1941)...

  • ISOLATION FROM HYDROLYSIS PRODUCTS OF GELATIN: KINGSTON, SCHRYVER, BIOCHEM J, 18, 1071 (1924); BY HYDROLYSIS OF CATTLE LIGAMENTS: US PATENT 2,098,923 (1938 TO ARMOUR & CO).

  • ISOLATION FROM SILK FIBROIN, GELATIN, AND SUGAR CANE; REACTION OF CHLOROACETIC ACID AND AMMONIA

  • ISOLATION FROM SILK FIBROIN: MOORE, STEIN, J BIOL CHEM, 150, 113 (1943).

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · The Merck Index. 9th ed. Rahway, New Jersey: Merck & Co., Inc., 1976., p. 582; SRI.

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Appearance

  • MONOCLINIC OR TRIGONAL PRISMS FROM DILUTE ALCOHOL

  • Monoclinic prisms from alc

  • White crystals

  • Glycine appears as white crystals. (NTP, 1992)

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Weast, R.C. (ed.). Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 60th ed. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press Inc., 1979., p. C-321; Budavari, S. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 1996., p. 765; Lewis, R.J., Sr (Ed.). Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary. 13th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997., p. 545.

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PubChem : CAMEO Chemicals · 2026-10-29 · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina..

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Odour described

  • Odorless

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Lewis, R.J., Sr (Ed.). Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary. 13th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997., p. 545.

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Taste described

  • Sweet

PubChem : Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) · 2026-10-29 · Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 4th ed. Volumes 1: New York, NY. John Wiley and Sons, 1991-Present., p. V11 (94) 9.

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Associated research

ClinicalTrials.gov · A trial is not proof: it tests a hypothesis.

Searched on 1 November 2026.

Other names: glycine zwitterion (English), Glycin (German), glicina (Spanish), glicina (Italian), glicina (Portuguese).

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Same substance in cosmetics: GLYCINE.

In plain words

À quoi il sert, selon les fabricants

Objectifs les plus souvent annoncés pour les compléments qui en contiennent (Glycine) : sport (224 produits), peau (137 produits), articulations (121 produits), sommeil (113 produits), antioxydant (79 produits).

Ce sont les objectifs déclarés par les fabricants à l'administration, pas des effets démontrés. Sur l'emballage, seules les allégations de santé autorisées par l'Union peuvent être écrites.

Compl'Alim, food supplement declarations (France), retrieved 23 October 2026.

What the registers say, country by country

Each line repeats what an official register says on the date it was consulted. Not being in a register means neither allowed nor banned.

Compl'Alim ingredient list (France): listed.

Compl'Alim, reference list of ingredients, retrieved 21 October 2026.

Canada, licensed natural health products (LNHPD): 7 products.

Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD), Health Canada: licensed products, ingredients, doses, uses and risks, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Health Canada, LNHPD)

Licence du gouvernement ouvert – Canada 2.0 (OGL-Canada 2.0)

United States, supplement labels (DSLD; supplements need no prior approval): 1052 products.

Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD), US National Institutes of Health: current and off-market labels, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Source: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Dietary Supplement Label Database (CC0); US market labels.

Malaysia, registered products: 9 products.

NPRA, Malaysian pharmaceutical products register, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Ministry of Health Malaysia / NPRA, Pharmaceutical Products, CC BY 4.0

CC BY 4.0

Poland, notified supplements: 1 product.

GIS, products notified in Poland, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Główny Inspektorat Sanitarny (GIS), Rejestr produktów objętych powiadomieniem

CC BY 4.0

Taiwan, registered products: 60 products.

TFDA, Taiwan tablets, capsules and medical nutrition registers, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA), Open Government Data License, version 1.0

Open Government Data License, version 1.0

Declared daily quantities

Declared daily quantities: Glycine
UnitProductsMedianMinimumMaximum
mg235500215,000

Calculated from Compl'Alim declarations that provide a quantity. These are quantities declared by manufacturers, not measurements, and preparation is not distinguished (powder, extract of varying concentration): differences between products can be very large.

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