Zinc citrate is the well-absorbed answer to one of nutrition’s most underrated minerals. Each Fits tablet delivers 15 mg of elemental zinc — 150% of the daily reference intake — from 46.2 mg of the citrate form, in a 90-tablet pack that turns three months of the routine into a single purchase.

Zinc’s remarkable job description

Few nutrients carry as many authorised roles: zinc contributes to normal immune function, the maintenance of normal skin, hair and nails, normal cognitive function, normal protein synthesis and DNA synthesis, the maintenance of normal vision and testosterone levels in the blood, and the protection of cells from oxidative stress. It participates in the work of hundreds of enzymes — a mineral whose deficiency shows precisely because its portfolio is so wide.

Why the citrate form

Zinc supplements differ meaningfully by form: the oxide of the cheapest tablets is poorly absorbed, while citrate stands among the well-absorbed organic forms — the same practical logic that sends informed magnesium buyers to glycinate. The 15 mg elemental dose is deliberately sensible: fully sufficient at 150% NRV without straying into the long-term-excess territory that heavier-handed zinc products flirt with.

What’s in it

Zinc citrate with standard pressing agents (dicalcium phosphate, microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate), all declared. Free from declared allergens; vegetarian-friendly tablets.

How to take it

One tablet daily — the label suggests before breakfast with a glass of water; anyone whose stomach prefers zinc with food should simply take it with the meal instead, a well-known courtesy this mineral appreciates. Do not exceed the dose: more zinc is not better zinc, and long-term high intakes interfere with copper. Adults; pregnant and breastfeeding women should consult their doctor. Food supplements complement a varied diet — oysters, meat, seeds and legumes remain the food sources.

Who runs a zinc routine?

The immune-season crowd, from October onward; skin-hair-nails routines that want the mineral behind the biotin headlines; plant-based eaters, whose zinc absorption runs lower by diet; and athletes, who lose the mineral the sweaty way.

Frequently asked questions

Zinc on an empty stomach — nausea? The known quirk; with-food dosing solves it at negligible cost.

Can I pair it with the multivitamin? Sum the zinc lines first — this tablet alone already covers the day generously.

Why not higher doses? Because the reference intake exists — 150% is confidence; 400% is imbalance waiting politely.

The plant-based zinc arithmetic

Vegans and vegetarians face a double zinc bind the textbooks describe plainly: plant diets supply less of the mineral to begin with, and the phytates in whole grains and legumes bind a share of what arrives. Nothing about that argues against the diet — it argues for awareness, and a modest well-absorbed supplement is the textbook answer. The same logic applies seasonally to everyone else: zinc’s immune-function role makes October the month this bottle traditionally joins the breakfast lineup, and the 90-count conveniently spans exactly the season that matters. Sensible dose, absorbable form, three-month supply — mineral supplementation at its least dramatic and most defensible.

Zinc and copper — what’s the story? Long-term high zinc intakes compete with copper absorption — one more reason the 15 mg restraint here is a feature, not a limitation.

Best absorbed when? Away from high-calcium and high-iron moments — minerals compete politely; spacing them by a meal settles the queue.

Skin-route or supplement-route for zinc? Different tools — creams treat surfaces; the tablet supplies the system the skin is built from.

Lozenges vs tablets? Different intentions — lozenges are a throat-season format; this tablet is the daily systemic routine.

Delivery in Malta & Gozo

€6 delivery, free over €40 across Malta and Gozo, or collection from St Paul’s Bay.