Nutricost Hit With Magnesium Supplement Content Deception Suit

Supplement maker Nutricost deceptively advertised its magnesium products as having 420 mg of the mineral but the capsule can’t hold that much, a proposed class action filed Tuesday alleges.

“It is impossible to fit 420 mg of magnesium derived from magnesium glycinate in two of the sized capsules Nutricost uses for a single serving” because “magnesium glycinate simply possesses far too low a concentration of magnesium to do so,” the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio says.

Lead plaintiff Anastasia Kurtz says Nutricost began disclosing the supplements contain other forms of magnesium after ...