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Old 10-19-2013, 11:30 PM
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Not intending to speak for MrsD or anyone else, but in searching for other discussion/mentions of magnesium stearate, I found:
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Originally Posted by mrsD View Post
Your multivitamin most likely has magnesium oxide in it?
Or magnesium stearate? The Oxide form is not absorbed, and the stearate is not either. The stearate is an excipient added to improve flow of powder into the tablet processing machines.

So you cannot count on either if they appear on a label in that
way.
There are/is more—try the Search tool.

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