The panel

MemoHive ingredients, all five, with the number beside each one.

Five actives, five amounts, and a serving total that reconciles. Here is what each one is, what the research used, and which parts of this panel do not survive the comparison.

Five lines, five numbers, one total

Two capsules is one serving. The seller's panel prints an amount beside every active, and the five amounts add to the serving total the same page states. That is the reason this list is the one reproduced here and the others are not.

#	Active	Amount	Share	Type
1	BCAA 2:1:1 Branched-chain amino acids · 540 mg	540 mg	52%%	Amino acids
2	Bacopa Monnieri Whole-plant extract · 200 mg	200 mg	19%%	Botanical extract
3	Rhodiola Rosea Standardised to 3% salidroside · 100 mg	100 mg	10%%	Botanical extract
4	L-Theanine Amino acid from tea · 100 mg	100 mg	10%%	Amino acid
5	Panax Ginseng Root extract · 90 mg	90 mg	9%%	Botanical extract

540 + 200 + 100 + 100 + 90 = 1,030 mg a serving, which is what the panel says. Shares are rounded to the nearest whole per cent.

Why arithmetic is the tiebreaker. Anyone can publish an ingredient list. Very few pages publish one whose own numbers reconcile. When three sources disagree about a product, the one that shows its working and whose working is correct is the one to go with — not the longest list, and not the one with the most impressive-sounding names on it.

Active in focus

Bacopa Monnieri — 200 mg

The ingredient the memory claim actually rests on. An Ayurvedic herb, studied in humans for recall and information retention more thoroughly than anything else on this panel.

What the research used, next to what this label prints. The trials most often cited use 300 mg a day for eight to twelve weeks, usually of an extract standardised to bacosides. This label prints 200 mg and no standardisation. Two thirds of the studied amount is a real shortfall, and it is a very different kind of shortfall from the thousandth-of-a-dose numbers that turn up inside proprietary blends.

Active in focus

BCAA 2:1:1 — 540 mg

Leucine, isoleucine and valine in the ratio used across sports nutrition. It is the largest single item here — more than half the serving by weight.

What the research used, next to what this label prints. This is the panel's weakest point and it deserves the plainest paragraph on the page. Branched-chain amino acids are extensively studied in exercise, recovery and muscle protein synthesis, where gram-scale doses are normal. In cognition the evidence is thin, and 540 mg is a fraction of what the sports literature uses anyway. More than half of this formula by weight is the ingredient with the least to do with memory.

Active in focus

Rhodiola Rosea — 100 mg, 3% salidroside

An adaptogen from cold climates, studied mainly for mental fatigue and stress-related tiredness rather than for memory as such.

What the research used, next to what this label prints. The one entry on this panel with a standardisation printed beside it, which is worth more than it looks: a milligram figure tells you how much extract, a standardisation tells you how much of the active compound is inside it. Fatigue studies commonly run 200–400 mg a day, so 100 mg is at or below the floor.

Active in focus

L-Theanine — 100 mg

The amino acid from tea leaves responsible for the calm-but-alert quality people describe when they drink green tea rather than coffee.

What the research used, next to what this label prints. Most of the research pairs it with caffeine, and the pairing is where the clearest effects on attention show up. There is no caffeine in this formula. On its own the studied range is roughly 100–200 mg, so this sits at the bottom of it — and its job here is presumably to smooth the ginseng and rhodiola rather than to sharpen anything.

Active in focus

Panax Ginseng — 90 mg

Korean ginseng, the most researched of the ginsengs, studied for mental fatigue and working memory in short trials.

What the research used, next to what this label prints. The smallest number on the panel and the furthest from its own literature: cognition studies commonly use 200–400 mg a day, and no ginsenoside percentage is printed here. It also carries the longest interaction list of the five — anticoagulants, blood-sugar medication, immunosuppressants — which is a reason to know it is in there even at 90 mg.

The list this page is not using, and why

Another page about this product publishes an entirely different formula — eight ingredients, no amount against any of them:

Vitamin B Complex
Magnesium
Ginkgo Biloba
Bacopa Monnieri
Phosphatidylserine
Gotu Kola
Green Tea Extract
Turmeric

Only one name overlaps with the panel above. There is no serving total, no milligram figure and nothing to check, so there is no way to tell whether the list was transcribed, remembered or assembled from what a memory supplement is generally expected to contain. Two of those names — ginkgo and phosphatidylserine — are the usual furniture of a nootropic ingredient list, which is exactly what you would reach for if you were filling in a blank.

We are not asserting that list is invented. We are saying it cannot be checked, the other one can, and that is the entire basis on which this page chose.

Being fair to this panel

It would be easy to read the paragraphs above as a demolition. Three things about this label are genuinely better than the category average:

Every active has its own amount. In a category where “proprietary cognitive matrix” is standard, five printed numbers is the single most useful thing a label can do, and it is the only reason any of this analysis is possible.
The arithmetic reconciles. The parts add to the stated whole. That sounds like a low bar until you check a few dozen labels.
One ingredient is standardised. 3% salidroside on the rhodiola. One out of five is not a sweep, but it is one more than most.

And the honest counterweight: three of the five actives sit below the doses used in the research, and the largest ingredient by weight is the one with the least cognitive evidence behind it. Both of those things are true at the same time, and a page that tells you only one of them is selling.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. The comparison doses above come from published human studies of single ingredients. None of those studies tested MemoHive.

Now you have the numbers

Five amounts, checked, and the decision is yours.

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