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Read by an AI voice. Every box is read aloud. The page-against-certificate table is on the page, and the figures in it are summarized in the paragraphs that follow it.
Who wrote this, and what we sell. Checked 1 October 2026. Written by Rebel X Brands, a wholesale distributor of King K, GUD Tonics and GRH/Grassroots Harvest products. King K's liquid kratom extracts (Gold, Silver, Platinum) compete directly with MIT45's liquids. Rebel X does not distribute MIT45, but our sister retail store, GRH Kratom, sells three MIT45 products, listed on 1 October 2026 as "MIT 45 Gold Liquid Kratom Extract 15ml" at $14.99, "MIT 45 Super K Extra Strong Liquid Kratom Extract 30ml" at $22.99 and "MIT 45 Black Kratom Extract Honey Pouch" at $12.99. So our group competes with MIT45 and also earns money when GRH sells MIT45 products. MIT45 did not commission or pay for this review and has not seen it. It contains no affiliate links. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by MIT45, and its names are its trademarks. Corrections go through the contact page on rebelxbrands.com.
How we reviewed it. Documents only, read on 1 October 2026: mit45.com's shop, product, FAQ, wholesale, policy and leadership pages; its current and older lot certificates, two spec sheets and its registration certificate; Cambium Analytica's accreditation page; the American Kratom Association's GMP program page and vendor list; a paid press release on a finance portal; two federal dockets; and Federal Register, FDA and Alabama Attorney General publications. We did not buy, taste, dose or lab-test any MIT45 product. We did not read the printed labels on physical packs, submit the wholesale form or contact MIT45, so "page figure" below means the number on mit45.com. No score is given.
This MIT 45 kratom review is for the buyer at a smoke shop, vape shop or c-store deciding whether to put a case on the counter, and who answers for it to customers and, on a bad day, an inspector. So: what the brand sells, what its paperwork says, where its numbers disagree, who is suing it, and what the wholesale page commits to.
What this MIT 45 kratom review found
Quick verdict, in words. MIT45 publishes a lot-specific certificate for each of its four products from a named laboratory, sits on the American Kratom Association's GMP vendor list, and runs a public wholesale form under a 21-and-over rule. Its documents also disagree in places: two product pages carry conflicting mitragynine figures, the honey pouch's page and certificate are far apart, the current Super K certificate has no heavy-metal panel, no certificate we read screens for the three derivatives the DEA temporarily scheduled in August 2026, and the registration paper on the site ran to 31 December 2025. A proposed class action is pending. A shop that files a certificate for every lot will want more, in writing, before the first order.
Who MIT45 is
The site footer gives 380 W Lawndale Dr., Salt Lake City. The FAQ calls MIT45 "a flagship brand under Diversified Botanics", with sister brands Golden Monk and Uprising. In court it is MIT45 Inc., described in filings as a Delaware corporation based in Utah, and in April 2024 it told the federal court in California it had "No Corporate Parents/Interested Parties." We did not check state registries, so how MIT45 Inc. and Diversified Botanics connect on paper is unverified, and the site's terms page names no legal entity. Get the selling entity named in your agreement.
The big numbers, "#1 SELLER OF KRATOM TINCTURES" and "more than 35 million bottles sold", and the founding-member claim about the AKA, are MIT45's own; we verified none. A "best kratom" item on a finance portal, dated 6 May 2025 with MIT45 as author, is labeled "This is a paid press release." Check who wrote any MIT45 review. This one included.
What mit45.com sold on 1 October 2026
Four products. MIT45 Gold, Super K and Super K Extra Strong are liquids listing vegetable glycerin, water, citric acid and kratom extract; MIT45 Go is a honey gel pouch. The product sitemap adds only an out-of-stock Boost liquid, a mystery gift and a three-count Go pack at $29.99. No capsule or powder was listed for sale, though the FAQ still describes the line as "extracts and capsules" and the wholesale form still offers capsules and powders. Not listed is not the same as discontinued. Confirm in writing what will ship. Nor was any product called MIT45 Black listed, although "Black Label (Capsules)" appears in the wholesale menu and its old product URL redirects to the shop page. Our sister store GRH lists an "MIT 45 Black Kratom Extract Honey Pouch", so this is our group's question too: if a carton says Black, ask MIT45 which part number and which certificate it matches.
Prices, as listed on mit45.com on 1 October 2026, do not line up. The shop grid shows $131.82 for Gold, $89.82 for Super K, $24.97 for Super K Extra Strong and $59.82 for Go. The product pages and their related-product widgets showed other figures for the same items that day, among them $12.97 for Super K, $9.97 for Go, and $263.64 and $17.99 for Gold. Only Super K Extra Strong showed $24.97 everywhere we looked, so it is the only single-unit price we treat as settled.
The phone arithmetic a customer can do: Super K Extra Strong is $24.97 for a page figure of 375 mg of mitragynine, and $24.97 divided by 3.75 is $6.66 per 100 mg. That is the brand selling direct, and with no minimum advertised price (MAP) policy found, it is the number your shelf tag sits next to.
Page figure against certificate
The part a buyer can check in ten minutes: each page's mitragynine figure against the certificate MIT45 links as current.
| Product | Page figure | Certificate lot, date | Certificate result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold, 15 mL | 125 mg | 00-2098, 10 Feb 2025 | 121.54 mg (5 servings of 24.31 mg) |
| Super K, 30 mL | 150 mg | 00-2500-S, 10 Sep 2025 | 146.11 mg (6 servings of 24.35 mg) |
| Super K Extra Strong, 30 mL | 375 mg (about 15 servings of 25 mg) | 00-2634-S, 10 Dec 2025 | 361.17 mg (15 servings of 24.08 mg) |
| Go, honey gel pouch | 150 mg of extract at 65%; 32.5 mg a serving (a third of a pouch) | 00-2674, 2 Jan 2026 | 29.31 mg for the whole 14.4 mL pouch |
Three of the four are close: Gold, Super K and Super K Extra Strong each measured 96 to 97 percent of the page figure. Lots vary both ways. An older Gold lot, 00-2039, measured 126.16 mg and a later Super K Extra Strong lot, 00-2705, 411.48 mg, which is why a certificate is only as useful as its lot number.
The pages are less tidy. Gold's page gives 125 mg and notes 112.5 mg in the old packaging, yet its FAQ still says 250 mg of extract at 45 percent, the old 112.5 mg. It states no serving size, and the two Gold certificates split the bottle into five servings and three (24.31 mg and 42.05 mg a serving). Super K Extra Strong's page gives 375 mg, while an older FAQ answer on the same page says 1,200 mg of extract at 30 percent, which is 360 mg. Your staff will be asked which number is right.
Then the pouch. The Go page says: "Each pouch contains 150mg of our mitragyna speciosa extract with a 65% concentration of mitragynine." With a serving of a third of a pouch at 32.5 mg, that implies about 97.5 mg a pouch (our arithmetic). The linked certificate, lot 00-2674, reports 29.31 mg for the whole pouch, less than the page's figure for one serving. The documents do not explain the gap, and we are not alleging mislabeling. Ask MIT45 before stocking the pouch, and get the answer on paper.
What the certificates test, and what they miss
The good part is real. MIT45 keeps a page of finished-product certificates, one for each current product. Its certificate sitemap lists about 100 lot pages; the newest, last modified 29 September 2026, had a title but no certificate when we read it. All four current certificates come from Cambium Analytica of Traverse City, Michigan, which states: "The results herein relate only to the sample & batch identified in this report." Newer Cambium reports print "Accreditation: ISO/IEC 17025:2017 - #108157", the number on Cambium's own accreditation page. The older-format Gold reports carry no such line in the text we read. We did not read Cambium's scope document, so whether its alkaloid methods sit inside that accreditation is unverified; ask that of any laboratory.
Panels vary, and for a compliance file that matters more. Gold lot 00-2098 shows residual solvents, pesticides and three of the four heavy metals not detected, mercury at 0 ug/g, and microbiology passing. Super K Extra Strong lot 00-2634-S and Go lot 00-2674 also carry metals, microbiology, solvent and pesticide results. Super K lot 00-2500-S reports alkaloids and microbiology. No metals. No solvents. No pesticides. Yet the shop-page FAQ says "MIT45 ensures all Kratom products undergo rigorous testing for identity, heavy metals (Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, Mercury), and microbial safety". If you stock Super K, ask for the metals result by lot. The Gold certificate linked as current dates from 10 February 2025, with no 2026 Gold certificate in the sitemap.
Among minor alkaloids, the certificates report only mitraphylline and the leaf's own minor alkaloid that the FDA's July 2025 warning letters targeted when it was added or concentrated; all four current certificates put the latter at 0.00 mg a serving. None of the nine MIT45 certificates we read tests for mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, MGM-15 or MGM-16. Those are the three compounds in the DEA's temporary scheduling order, effective 26 August 2026 until 26 August 2028. That is not evidence they are present, and nothing in the documents we read ties MIT45 to them. It does mean these certificates cannot show they are absent.
The AKA GMP listing
MIT45 appears as "MIT 45" on the American Kratom Association's GMP Qualified Vendors list, as read on 1 October 2026. King K, GUD Tonics and GRH Kratom, the brands we distribute, are not on it as read that day. That page says participants "must complete an annual independent 3rd party audit" and that a listing "should not be construed as the AKA's endorsement of any organization, vendor, product, or service." It shows no audit date for anyone. AKA's program page calls the scheme "facility and process certification versus product certification"; "American Kratom Association certification", on MIT45's home page, is MIT45's wording. So the listing says nothing about a lot on your shelf or the date of the last audit. Ask for it. Our AKA GMP explainer for retailers covers the rest.
MIT 45 wholesale terms you can read before applying
The wholesale page offers "wholesale pricing and incentives on our top-selling, GMP-compliant kratom liquids, capsules, powders and more" and a $50 credit toward a first order for completing the form, which asks for an EIN, store count, store type (C-Store, Distributor, Smoke Shop, Wholesaler or Other), pilot-location interest and order frequency. Partners are promised "in-store displays, promotional videos, digital marketing materials". Unit cost, minimums, terms and freight are not published, and we did not submit the form.
Spec sheets give Gold a display carton of "12 units per tray" and Super K "12 units per carton", with UPCs 810149700033 and 810149700040 for the Gold unit carton and display tray, 810149700057 and 810149700064 for Super K's. Every page says "Must be 21 or over to purchase these products." That is MIT45's rule for its own sales; your own age rules are a question for counsel. We found no MAP policy. Ask whether one exists before you price the shelf.
Two no-ship lists and a registration paper that ran to 2025
MIT45 publishes two no-ship lists, and they do not match. Its no-sale jurisdictions page names Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Vermont, Wisconsin and Rhode Island, then a long list of counties and cities. Its shop-page FAQ names Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin, plus Sarasota County, Union County, Denver and San Diego. Neither is your compliance file; the law where you sell is, and counsel reads it. Alabama is on both lists. Its Attorney General's office and ALEA announced Operation Southern Shield on 15 June 2026, and that release does not name MIT45.
The certificate page also links a Registrar Corp certificate for "MIT45, Inc." at an address in Draper, Utah, with "U.S. FDA Registration No.: 15657640342", effective "until December 31, 2025, unless such registration has been terminated after issuance of this certificate." It says the FDA "does not issue a certificate of registration" and that "Registrar Corp is not affiliated with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration." Registration is not approval, and the FDA's kratom page says "kratom is not lawfully marketed in the U.S. as a drug product, a dietary supplement, or a food additive in conventional food." And this paper's stated period ended nine months before we read it. Ask for a current one, and note that Draper is not the Salt Lake City address in the footer.
Litigation a buyer should know about
Our CourtListener searches found two cases naming MIT45 Inc. as a party. What follows is allegation unless a court has ruled, and status is as the dockets showed it on 1 October 2026.
Moorhead v. MIT45 Inc., No. 3:24-cv-00499 in the Southern District of California, was filed on 14 March 2024 under the plaintiffs' initials. The complaint alleges that MIT45 "intentionally and negligently failed to disclose these material facts anywhere on its labeling, packaging, or marketing materials", the facts being, on the plaintiffs' account, how addictive the products are, and it seeks a nationwide class of people who "purchased MIT45 kratom products". It is not a case about added alkaloids. On 3 July 2024 Judge M. James Lorenz dismissed the negligent misrepresentation count, with leave to amend, and let the rest proceed, writing: "These warnings are insufficient to comply with a duty to disclose the alleged risk of addictiveness of the Products." That is a ruling that the allegations could go forward, not a finding of liability. An amended complaint in December 2024 added New York and Oregon plaintiffs and listed Gold, Go, Super K, Super K Extra Strong, Ultramit, Boost Bites and Black Label; MIT45 answered. In 2025 a substitute replaced one original plaintiff after a notice of death; the docket entry gives no cause, and nothing here connects it to any product.
On 3 August 2026 the court denied the plaintiffs' motions for class certification and for an accounting and asset preservation order "without prejudice to refiling after conclusion of mediation", noting that "The filings are further plagued by missing and illegible exhibits." The case went to Judge Andrew G. Schopler on 18 August, mediation on 11 September "did not resolve this action", and the plaintiffs refiled both motions on 17 September. MIT45's position: "Defendant acknowledges that mediation was not successful. Defendant will respond to any motion and defend the case in accordance with applicable rules." Per the docket, it is pending, with no class certified and no settlement.
Russell v. MIT45 Inc. was filed in Clark County, Nevada, on or about 21 July 2026, removed to federal court as No. 2:26-cv-02589 and remanded to state court on 11 September 2026. The removal notice lists strict products liability, negligence, warranty and deceptive trade practices claims against MIT45 Inc. and Super Organics, LLC (doing business as Super Speciosa), plus Doe defendants including "DOE DISTRIBUTORS 1-40". We could not read the complaint, so the product and facts alleged are unknown, and we did not check the state docket. Forty unnamed distributor slots deserve a look from your own lawyer, as does whatever your supply agreement says about who answers for a product claim.
Agency actions found, and not found
Web searches found no FDA warning letter, recall or import alert naming MIT45; we did not query FDA databases directly, so that is a search result, not a clean record. The FDA's July 2025 warning letters went to seven firms, not including MIT45, and focused on products with the leaf's minor alkaloid added or at enhanced levels. The DEA order does not name MIT45. A second Federal Register notice published the same day, from HHS, extending to 10 September 2026 the comment period on a request for information about a proposed threshold for temporarily scheduling that alkaloid, does not name MIT45 either; we have not checked where that process stands since. Our searches found no state action naming MIT45, and we found no MIT45 statement on the August order. Its newest blog post is dated 25 February 2026.
What to ask any extract brand, MIT45 included
None of this is unique to MIT45. Ask any extract brand, and file the answers, dated.
The lot on the box. A certificate for the lot you receive, not the product line. Full panels on every lot. Metals, microbiology, residual solvents and pesticides. For MIT45, start with Super K. The three derivatives, named with a limit. Mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, MGM-15 and MGM-16 as analytes, with a method and a detection limit. A plain not-detected result, with its limit, is workable. A vague assurance is not. Numbers that agree. Page, label and certificate in the same mg per unit. For MIT45, the Go pouch first. Current paper. A registration in date, the latest GMP audit date, one no-ship list, and a written answer on minimum advertised pricing. The contract. Which entity sells to you, and who answers for a product claim. That one goes to counsel.
Our checklist on how to vet a wholesale supplier covers the rest. The same list applies to us. Put it to the lines in our extracts collection exactly as you would to MIT45; the wholesale application is where that conversation starts.
MIT 45 review FAQ
Is MIT45 AKA GMP qualified?
It is listed as "MIT 45" on the American Kratom Association's GMP Qualified Vendors list as read on 1 October 2026. AKA calls its program facility and process certification, not product certification, and the list shows no audit date.
Does MIT45 publish lab results for each batch?
It publishes lot-specific certificates, though the newest lot page in its sitemap showed none when we read it; the four linked as current are from Cambium Analytica. The current Super K certificate has no heavy-metal panel, and none we read tests for mitragynine pseudoindoxyl, MGM-15 or MGM-16.
How does a shop get MIT 45 wholesale pricing?
Through the form on MIT45's wholesale page, which asks for an EIN, store count and store type and offers a $50 credit toward a first order. Prices are not published, and we found no minimum advertised price policy.
Disclaimer: this article summarizes public documents as read on 1 October 2026. Prices, certificates, product lists and dockets change. This is general business information, not legal or medical advice, and no substitute for counsel or a clinician. Statements about botanical products have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, and no product is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
