MemoHive Ingredients List: 5 Rows Read One By One

Row 1: What are the branched chain amino acids, and how much?

The first row is branched chain amino acids in a 2:1:1 ratio, which means leucine, isoleucine and valine. The label prints 540 mg per serving, more than half of the 1,030 mg total. Split by that ratio, the 540 mg is about 270 mg of leucine, with 135 mg each of isoleucine and valine.

The published work uses very different quantities. Short muscle and strength studies ran on 10 to 14 g daily. The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements describes up to 20 g a day as the amount that appears safe. The one systematic review of these amino acids and cognitive function found eight studies in total, and five showed no change. The label amount is in milligrams and the studies are in grams, so the two should not be joined by a claim.

Row 2: What is the bacopa monnieri extract?

Bacopa follows at 200 mg per serving. It is the best-researched row on the panel. The trials in the two systematic reviews used 300 to 450 mg a day of a standardised extract, and every trial ran for twelve weeks.

The label prints 200 mg and gives no standardisation figure for it, so the bottle sits below the researched range and without a stated marker. The sensible takeaway is not that it fails. It is that you know exactly where the bottle stands against the trials, which is more than most labels let you work out. Reported effects in the trials were digestive.

Row 3: What is the rhodiola rosea extract?

Rhodiola is printed at 100 mg and carries the only standardisation figure on the panel: 3% salidroside. That means about 3% of the extract's weight is the marker, so 100 mg of extract carries roughly 3 mg of it. The figure tells you the strength of one compound, and nothing about memory.

Only two trials print a dose in their abstracts: 400 mg daily for twelve weeks, and 576 mg daily for 28 days. Both measured fatigue and stress, not memory. Reported effects include dizziness, headache, insomnia and either dry mouth or excess saliva, and rhodiola is one of the two rows with recorded medicine interactions.

Row 4: What is L-theanine, and how much is in a serving?

L-theanine is an amino acid found in green tea. The label prints 100 mg. In one dose-response study, 100 mg was tested head to head against 200 mg and 400 mg, and at 100 mg simple reaction time improved. The reviews on stress and anxiety use 200 to 400 mg a day. Many of the sharper attention findings come from studies that gave caffeine alongside it, and MemoHive has no caffeine.

So the bottle sits at the amount the dose study tested, and below the stress reviews. Each fact is about a different study. None of them is a promise about this capsule.

Row 5: What is the panax ginseng extract?

Ginseng is last, at 90 mg. The Cochrane review of ginseng and cognition could not combine its trials, since doses and lengths all differed, and it reported no convincing sign of a cognitive effect in healthy people. Asian ginseng may lower blood sugar, may interfere with blood clotting and may worsen autoimmune disorders, and it is reported to reduce the anticoagulant effect of warfarin.

No standardisation figure is printed for this row. If you take any medicine, this is the row to show your doctor first.

What else is in the capsule?

Underneath the five rows the label prints the other ingredients: microcrystalline cellulose, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (capsule) and magnesium stearate. The capsule shell is the middle entry, a plant-derived cellulose and not gelatin. Under that line the label prints Contains No Allergens.

Is MemoHive a nootropic, and is it a capsule or gummy?

The sales page calls it a memory and mental clarity formula. Whether you file that under nootropic or cognitive support is your word choice. The form is not in doubt: MemoHive is a capsule. Gummies, powders and liquid drops are different products. Searches often say pills, but the label says capsule, and it is the label that counts. The panel is the best guide to what it contains, and we have printed it above.

How do you compare this label with another bottle?

Use the same five questions on any supplement. Is every ingredient named? Is there an amount against every name, or only a blend total? Does each extract state a standardisation marker? Are the serving size and the servings per container both printed? Is the shell material named, with an allergen line? A bottle that answers all five lets you compare it with other products on facts. A bottle that answers two leaves you doing guesswork.

MemoHive answers four of the five fully and the standardisation question partly, because only rhodiola carries a marker. That is a fair score, and it is better to see it written plainly than to have it hidden.

Which row matters most if you take medicines?

Start with ginseng and rhodiola, the two rows with recorded interactions. Take the bottle to your doctor or pharmacist. Because every amount is printed, they can check the list in a minute.

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The best thing about this label is that you can read it. Five names, five amounts and a total that adds up. That lets anyone set the bottle beside the published work and see where it matches and where it does not. In several rows it does not match, and we have said so instead of hiding it.

What we cannot tell you is how the five ingredients behave together in the finished capsule, because that has not been studied. Treat the list as a clear description of what is inside, not as a promise about what happens next. If you take medicines, show the list to a doctor before the first capsule.

Last updated October 29, 2026. Published October 16, 2026. Next review date is set when a figure on the label or the order page changes.