1 Product identity

Ingredient risk

Contains restricted ingredients

Metabolic Elite

Name: Metabolic Elite
Brand: GNC Total Lean Advanced

BrandGNC Total Lean Advanced→Botanical with Nutrients Tablet or Pill 22 ingredients 1 banned 2 caution DSLD #47945

Net contents: 60 Tablet(s)

Target: Adults and Children 4 years and above

DSLD entry: 2015-07-24

2 Ingredients (22)

IngredientGroupSafety

NiacinNiacinConditionally Safe

6x Clinical Burn BlendBlend—

Mucuna pruriens seed extractCowhage—

Ginger root extractGinger —

Boswellia serrata Gum ExtractBoswelliaGenerally Safe

Caffeine AnhydrousCaffeineUse with Caution

Capsimax Capsicum seed extractCapsicum—

Rocket Plant leaf extractArugula—

Chicory root extractchicory—

Cinnamon bark extractCeylon cinnamonUse with Caution

Piper longum fruit extractIndian Long Pepper—

Botanical Rush BlendBlend (Herb/Botanical)—

Green Coffee bean extractGreen Coffee—

Rocket Plant leaf extract & Chicory root extract BlendBlend (Herb/Botanical)—

Mind/Body MatrixBlend—

Reishi Mushroom powderReishi mushroom—

Cordyceps sinensis extractCordycepsConditionally Safe

CelluloseCellulose—

Titanium DioxideTitanium DioxideBanned in ≥1 country

Vegetable AcetoglyceridesGlycerides—

FD&C Blue #1 Aluminum Lake——

RiboflavinRiboflavinGenerally Safe

Ingredient amounts require the full DSLD label. View full label at NIH DSLD →

⛔ Contains an ingredient banned in ≥1 country

Titanium Dioxide 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 — France banned TiO₂ in food from January 2020, first EU country.

⚠️ Use with caution — restricted in some markets

Caffeine (Anhydrous) 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇦🇺 — High caffeine warnings mandatory on products >150 mg/L.

Cinnamon 🇪🇺 — Coumarin TDI 0.1 mg/kg BW/day. Cassia type exceeds limits at typical supplement doses.

3 Safety cross-reference

Niacin — Conditionally Safe

⚠ Flushing at >50 mg

⚠ Hepatotoxicity at high doses

Ginger Root — Limited Evidence

⚠ GI: heartburn at high doses

⚠ Antiplatelet effect

Boswellia — Generally Safe

⚠ GI discomfort

⚠ May enhance anticoagulants

Caffeine (Anhydrous) — Use with Caution

Cinnamon — Use with Caution

⚠ Cassia: high coumarin (hepatotoxic)

⚠ May lower glucose

Reishi — Limited Evidence

⚠ Hepatotoxicity (rare, powdered form)

⚠ Antiplatelet effect

Cordyceps — Conditionally Safe

⚠ May slow blood clotting

⚠ May lower blood glucose

Titanium Dioxide — Banned in ≥1 country

⚠ EFSA: can no longer be considered safe as food additive (2021)

⚠ Genotoxicity concern (nanoparticles)

Riboflavin — Generally Safe

⚠ Harmless yellow urine

4 Label claims

• All Other

• Structure/Function

5 Data source

DSLD ID47945

Full labelView at NIH DSLD →

SourceOffice of Dietary Supplements, NIH

Market statusOn market

Entry date2015-07-24

6 More from GNC Total Lean Advanced

View GNC Total Lean Advanced Safety Scorecard → 2 products

Stress Hormone Balancing Blend

7 Cite this page

Vancouver

Pkhakadze G. Metabolic Elite — product analysis [Internet]. Tbilisi: Public Health Institute of Georgia; 2026 [cited 2026 Sep 01]. Available from: https://supplement.ge/products/metabolic-elite-47945/

CC BY 4.0. Product data from NIH DSLD; safety analysis by SupplementIndex.

Analyzed by SupplementIndex

PHIG · Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, PhD

Product data sourced from the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD). Safety cross-referencing by SupplementIndex. This analysis is for informational purposes only. For corrections: info@accreditation.ge.
Publisher: PHIG