Naka Platinum Ultra Iron 25mg, Gentle Iron Bisglycinate, Supports Red Blood Cell Formation, 120 Vegetable Capsules

Naka Platinum Ultra Iron 25mg Details

Naka Platinum Ultra Iron 25mg provides 25 mg of elemental iron per vegetable capsule as iron (II) bisglycinate — iron bonded to the amino acid glycine — with 120 capsules to a bottle and one capsule a day as the serving. Naka is blunt about why: many iron supplements cause gastrointestinal side effects including nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhoea and dark-coloured stools, because those conventional forms are poorly absorbed. Iron bisglycinate increases iron intake without causing the gastrointestinal problems that come with many iron supplements.

That makes this the tolerability pick in Naka's iron range, and the one you can sit on for months. Naka calls it the ideal iron supplement and essential for pregnant women or those suffering iron deficiency anemia and associated tiredness and fatigue. Made in Canada.

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Quick Facts

Who Ultra Iron Is For

• Anyone who has abandoned an iron supplement because of how it felt — this is the form built around that problem
• People topping up iron over months rather than weeks — 120 capsules, once a day
• Buyers who want a real 25 mg of elemental iron, not the few milligrams inside a multivitamin
• Those managing iron deficiency anemia and the tiredness and fatigue Naka associates with it
• Adolescents from nine years up, which Naka's directions cover explicitly
• Shoppers who want iron alone, with no vitamin C, folate or B12 bundled in at doses they did not choose

Who this product is NOT for: If you need to move iron status quickly, a chelate at 25 mg is the patient option and Naka Platinum IronMax 150mg is built for the correction end instead. If you want iron with the nutrients that work alongside it, Naka Platinum Heme Iron 11mg adds methylfolate, B12, vitamin C and selenium, and Naka Platinum Essential Prenatal builds iron bisglycinate into a full multivitamin. And if swallowing capsules is the obstacle, a liquid iron is the better format.

Vitamart's Take

Iron is the category where people quit, not where people choose badly. The milligram number means nothing if the bottle ends up at the back of a cupboard after ten days, and with the harsh forms that happens more often than anyone admits. Bisglycinate is the direct answer, and 25 mg is a sensible amount to pair it with — enough to matter, not so much that you are daring your digestion to object.

The honest trade-off is that chelated iron costs more per milligram than ferrous salts, and the gentlest form is still iron — nobody should expect a chelate to be invisible. One listing note too: the supplier's nutrition panel carries a serving line copied from one of Naka's liquid products. The iron figure is right at 25 mg from iron (II) bisglycinate, the directions are right at one capsule a day, and the bottle is 120 capsules and 120 servings.

How Ultra Iron Compares

Naka's iron range divides by job rather than by brand tier: correction, maintenance, and tolerability. This is the tolerability one.

• Versus heme iron: Naka Platinum Heme Iron 11mg is a much smaller dose on its own absorption pathway, with methylfolate, B12, vitamin C and selenium alongside. It is animal-derived; this is not.
• Versus IronMax: Naka Platinum IronMax 150mg uses polysaccharide-iron complex and sits at the high end, 30 capsules. Use that to correct, this to maintain.
• Versus ferrous sulphate and fumarate: Those salts are the lower-cost route and carry high elemental iron per tablet, but they are the forms most associated with nausea and constipation.
• Versus a prenatal or multivitamin: Naka Platinum Essential Prenatal puts iron bisglycinate inside a complete formula — convenient, but you take the whole panel to get the iron.

What Does Chelation Do for Iron Tolerability?

Free iron is a reactive mineral, and that reactivity causes most of the trouble. An iron salt such as sulphate or fumarate dissolves in the stomach and releases iron ions, and whatever the gut does not absorb keeps travelling — still reactive, in contact with the lining of the digestive tract the whole way down. That is the usual explanation for the nausea, cramping, constipation and dark stools people associate with iron, and why the problem tracks poor absorption rather than dose alone.

A bisglycinate chelate changes the arrangement. Each iron atom is held between two glycine molecules in a stable ring, so it is not drifting loose as an ion — it stays bound through the gut and is taken up with its glycine carriers attached. Less free iron in the intestine means less irritation, and better absorption means less left over to irritate. Glycine is the smallest amino acid, which makes it a neat partner for a mineral this awkward.

How To Use

Adults and adolescents (9yrs+): Take 1 capsule 1 time per day.

Frequently Asked Questions

Pairs Well With

• Vitamin C Supplements — the usual partner alongside a non-heme iron
• Vitamin B9 Folate & Folic Acid Supplements — the nutrient most often taken beside iron
• Vitamin B12 Supplements — the third nutrient involved in red blood cell formation
• Fatigue & Low Energy — where iron sits in the wider range

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Compare Similar Products

• Naka Platinum Heme Iron 11mg — a small dose on its own absorption pathway, with folate, B12, C and selenium
• Naka Platinum IronMax 150mg — polysaccharide-iron complex at the high end of the range
• Iron Bisglycinate — every chelated iron we carry, compared by dose
• Liquid Iron Supplements — the option when capsules are the problem

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Adults and adolescents (9yrs+): Take 1 capsule 1 time per day.