Product transparency, quality and testing / 6 min read
How to read a supplement label without getting sold to
Proprietary blends, small amounts and vague claim language. A short guide to checking any label, including ours.
Last updated
Look for amounts, not names
A long ingredient list means very little if the amounts sit inside a blend. The useful question is how much of each thing is in one serving.
If a brand won't publish that, treat the list as marketing rather than information. Our own ingredient pages publish the amount of each ingredient as recorded against 6 capsules on the manufacturing record, with nothing grouped into a blend. That figure is how the formula is measured, not a direction to take six.
Watch the verbs
Cure, treat, prevent and detox are words a supplement label isn't supposed to use, and careful brands avoid them.
We hold our own copy to the same test. If a sentence can't answer the question of what evidence sits behind it, it doesn't go on a product page.