Sodatide FAQ: 47 Questions and Answers

The label does not say, and neither does anything else in the material we were given. Probiotics are dosed in colony-forming units — a count of living cells — and this label gives a weight in milligrams for three organisms combined. A weight cannot be converted into a cell count without a potency figure, and no potency figure is published. That is the single largest gap on this label.

It does not say. Three organisms are named to genus and species — <i>Bifidobacterium infantis</i>, <i>Clostridium butyricum</i> and <i>Akkermansia muciniphila</i> — with no strain designations. ISAPP's guidance is that responsible manufacturers list the genus, species <i>and</i> strain. It matters because probiotic evidence is strain-specific: NCCIH notes that one kind of an organism working does not mean another kind will.

Because it is a proprietary blend, and under 21 CFR 101.36(c) a blend has to declare the total weight of its dietary ingredients and list them in descending order of predominance by weight, but individual amounts are not required. It is entirely legal. It is also the only place on this label where a number is withheld, and descending order tells you only that the first-named organism is not the smallest.

It is the ingredient with the clearest published dose and the least information on the label. The Nature Medicine study gave 10¹⁰ bacteria a day, live or pasteurized, for three months to 40 enrolled volunteers of whom 32 completed, and the authors call it a proof-of-concept study. This label does not say which strain, does not say live or pasteurized, and gives no cell count — only a share of a 36 mg blend it does not break down.

We cannot tell, because no strain is named. In July 2026 an <i>Akkermansia muciniphila</i> ingredient completed the FDA's New Dietary Ingredient notification process, reported as the first strain of human intestinal origin to clear that pathway. Completing it means the agency did not object to the safety evidence submitted; it is not an efficacy review and not an endorsement. Whether this capsule contains that strain is a question for the order desk.

Ask a clinician before you take any probiotic, and take this label to them. NCCIH states directly that the risk of harmful effects from probiotics is greater in people with severe illnesses or compromised immune systems. That is not a statement about this product in particular; it is about the category, and it applies here.

Three hundred and forty-seven milligrams of declared ingredients: 211 mg of chicory root inulin, 100 mg of potato resistant starch and 36 mg of a probiotic blend. Plus the capsule shell and three excipients — hypromellose, microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate and silica. That is the whole of it, and all of it is printed.

It is a small fraction of what has been studied. The systematic review we read describes a trial using 8 grams a day of oligofructose plus inulin, which is roughly 38 times this amount. The same review reports that five randomised trials found no effect of inulin-type fructans on appetite sensations, and eleven found no effect on energy intake. On body weight it is more forgiving, and its conclusion is deliberately narrow: limited data suggest long-term administration may contribute to weight reduction.

This is the sharpest comparison on the site. A twelve-week randomised trial gave 45 grams a day of high-amylose maize resistant starch to 68 adults with prediabetes and concluded that it &ldquo;did not increase satiety or reduce appetite and food intake&rdquo;. That is 450 times the amount in this capsule, and it did not do the thing the front of this bottle claims.

The label never claims that, and neither do we. Its three claims are metabolic and digestive support, appetite control and satiety, and energy production from fats — all ordinary structure and function wording. No published human trial exists on this formula. The two ingredient trials we read used doses 38 and 450 times larger than what is in this capsule, and the resistant-starch one found no effect on appetite at all.

No timeline was published for this product, so we print none. The brief records that most buyers waited four to eight weeks, and that figure comes from a review block the same document marks as layout copy, so we do not treat it as evidence. The Akkermansia trial ran three months; the resistant starch trial ran twelve weeks and found no effect on appetite.

On one version of the artwork, yes. The asset pack contains two versions of the front panel. One reads SUPPORTS APPETITE CONTROL AND SATIETY. The other reads SUPPORTS APPETITE CONTROL AND SAFIETY. Same layout, same icons, one letter different. Both were supplied as production artwork and we cannot tell you which is on a bottle in a warehouse. Nobody is harmed by it; it is a signal about how carefully the rest was checked.

This is the awkward one. The same panel carries three instructions: refrigerate for optimal quality; keep away from heat, light and humidity to preserve freshness; and store in a cool, dry place. A refrigerator is cool and it is not dry. We would follow the refrigerate line, because it is the one that relates to keeping live organisms alive, and we would ask the order desk which the manufacturer intends.

Natural has no regulatory definition for a dietary supplement. The panel's own other-ingredients line lists four manufactured excipients. All four are ordinary and all four are properly disclosed — which is the point: the label is more honest than the roundel.

There are two and they are not the same. The label prints <i>Made in the USA with globally sourced ingredients</i>, which is a correctly qualified claim of exactly the kind the FTC describes — one that states the extent or type of domestic content. The roundel on the listing is different: it reads MANUFACTURE IN across the top and MANUFACTURE IN again across the bottom and never completes the sentence. It is the third product on this desk carrying that same broken badge.

The capsule shell is hypromellose, printed on the label as <i>vegetarian capsule</i>, and nothing else on the other-ingredients line is animal-derived. So the vegetarian mark is supported by the panel, which is unusual and worth crediting. What the label does not say is what the three probiotic organisms were grown on.

Nothing on the printed ingredient line is a dairy derivative, so the dairy-free mark is plausible from the panel. The gap is the same one: probiotic organisms are often cultured on dairy-derived media and the label says nothing about that either way. No certificate was supplied.

Not as a separate declaration. What you have is the other-ingredients line — hypromellose, microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate, silica — plus the three declared dietary ingredients. If you have a specific allergy, the growth media question above is the one to put to the order desk.

None appears in anything we were given. The brief says the lot and best-before appear on the base of the bottle when the bottle shows them, so the base of your own bottle is the only place to look. On a product containing live organisms this matters more than usual.

A dietary supplement in vegetarian capsules, thirty to a bottle, taken as one capsule a day with an 8 oz glass of water. The front reads Advanced Metabolic Science, Sodatide, Metabolic &amp; Digestive Support, and the panel declares three things: chicory root inulin 211 mg, potato resistant starch 100 mg, and a 36 mg Probiotic Blend containing three named organisms.

The label says: as a dietary supplement, take one capsule daily with an 8 oz glass of water. Refrigerate for optimal quality. The brief adds that it is best taken in the morning, preferably before a meal, and that you should refrigerate after opening to preserve the potency of the probiotics — a sentence the label itself never prints.

The brief recommends it; the label does not say. No mechanism or study is offered for the timing in anything we were given, so we have not invented one. If taking it at a fixed point in the day helps you remember it, that is a better reason than any we can cite.

Take the next one as usual. The label says do not exceed the recommended dose, so doubling up to catch up is specifically not what it asks for. At one capsule a day a missed day is a missed thirtieth of a bottle.

Inulin and resistant starch are fermentable fibres, and fermentable fibres are well known for gas and bloating at the doses used in research. At 211 mg and 100 mg you are a long way below those doses, which is one of the few places where the smallness of these amounts works in a buyer's favour. If anything does upset you, stop and ask a clinician.

We cannot tell you that about any supplement, and nobody who sells one should. What we can do is quote the sources. NCCIH: the risk of harmful effects from probiotics is greater in people with severe illnesses or compromised immune systems, and severe or fatal infections have been reported in premature infants given probiotics, with an FDA warning to health care providers about that risk. The label's own caution panel covers pregnancy, nursing, under-18s and known medical conditions.

The label's own caution panel says individuals with a known medical condition should consult a physician before using this or any dietary supplement, and that is the right instruction. There is no published amount for any individual organism here, so a pharmacist assessing this product has three species names, three milligram totals and no potency to work with.

The label asks pregnant or nursing mothers to consult a physician before this or any other supplement. That is the label's instruction and we would follow it.

No. The caution panel names children under the age of 18 among those who should consult a physician first, and the brief states the product is for healthy adults 18 and over.

The label prints a complete distributor line: Instituto Experience, Lakeland FL, 33804, with a telephone number and an email address. That is more than most labels on this desk carry and it is to this one's credit. No manufacturing facility is named, and the email is the same address the brief gives for the sales desk.

Sodatidedaily, a USA Authorized Sodatide Retailer. We are a retailer for this product and a review desk for the same product, we earn a commission on orders placed here, and we say so on five pages including this one.

Yes. Orders placed through the buttons on this site earn this site a commission. That is the whole funding model. It is also why an editorial score of 2.4 out of 5, a section on a misspelled label and a chart showing a 450-fold dose gap are all published here rather than quietly left out.

No dietary supplement is. The FDA states that it &ldquo;does not have the authority to approve dietary supplements before they are marketed&rdquo;. The listing's registered-facility badge means a factory is on a list the FDA keeps, which is a filing requirement rather than an inspection result or an endorsement. We never write FDA approved on this site and this label does not either.

Nobody is named. Not on the label, not on the listing, not anywhere in the material we were given. The only photograph of a clinician in the whole pack is a stock image of a man in a white coat holding the bottle, and the hospital badge clipped to his coat reads <b>Generic / Name Sanme</b>. We have excluded that photograph from this site rather than publish it, and we have not put a name on the doctor it implies.

On its own, nothing. The pack contains a bar of four logos — the International Journal of Obesity, Nature, The Boston Globe and the American Physiological Society — with no paper, author, date, title or finding attached to any of them. A journal logo is not a citation. We have published the bar and said exactly that.

Lot SOD-26/SO-5904 and certificate reference SOD-5904-26-SO. The same document that supplies them describes both as draft labels rather than lab proof, so we publish them as references and not as evidence. No laboratory is named and no certificate of analysis was supplied.

Five were supplied with the pack: 10-Day Metabolic Challenge, Accelerated Metabolism, Facial Rejuvenation, Renova Flora Protocol and Personalized Usage Guide. They are worth noticing because they promise things the regulated label carefully does not — a ten-day timeframe, an acceleration, and a facial outcome on a digestive capsule. We have published the covers and said so.

Because the material we were given marks its own review block as layout copy. Its exact words: reviews, star scores and order counts in this pack are layout copy only. It contains a 4.5-star score, 968 written reviews, 5,287 orders and eight named buyers. Publishing any of that as feedback would mean inventing customers, so we publish none of it and say why.

No price was published to us and we print none. Pack prices are whatever the info page shows at checkout. What we can tell you is the denominator: one capsule a day, thirty to a bottle, so a bottle is exactly a month and any price divides cleanly into a cost per day.

One bottle, if you are deciding whether it suits you. The guarantee is 60 days from purchase, a bottle is 30 days, so one bottle finishes with half the window still to run and two bottles finish on the last day of it. Three and six bottles both run past the window, which means committing before you can still get the money back.

Here, if you want the refund window on this desk to apply. An order placed here sits with the order desk, under an order ID that desk can look up. An order placed on a marketplace is somebody else's policy and we cannot see it, refund it or help with it.

Neither was published to us. What we were told is that orders ship from the United States unless the sales page says otherwise, and that a tracking number arrives in the order email. We have not printed a delivery estimate nobody gave us.

Sixty days from the purchase date, or longer if the sales page prints a longer window. Counted from purchase rather than from delivery or from the first capsule. Claim it by calling the order desk with your order ID. The guarantee covers the purchase, not a health outcome.

Call the order desk with your order ID first, then post it to 666 Third Avenue, Floor 8, New York, NY 10017, with your full name, order email and order ID written on a sheet inside the parcel. Return shipping is paid by the buyer and should be tracked.

Two windows that add up: 3 to 5 business days for the desk to credit it once the return is processed, then a further 5 to 10 days for it to appear on your card. Count from the end of the second before you chase.

The order desk handles anything about an order: tracking, changes, refunds. The website inbox handles pages, typos, privacy and press, Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm ET. Both are listed in the site footer. The website address cannot see your order. The label also prints a separate number for the distributor.

Because the panel is competent and the numbers on it are not. Panel completeness scores 4.5 and the guarantee 4.0. Dose against research scores 0.5 and probiotic disclosure 0.5, because 100 mg of resistant starch against a 45-gram trial that found nothing, and a 36 mg blend with no CFU and no strains, are the two facts that matter most about this product. Label consistency scores 1.0 for three storage lines that disagree and two spellings of satiety.

Several things, and it would be dishonest to skip them. The Supplement Facts panel carries every structural element the regulation asks for. The caution panel is properly worded. The distributor line is complete, with a street, a ZIP, a phone number and an email. The made-in-USA wording on the label is correctly qualified. The FDA disclaimer is boxed on the same panel as the claims it belongs to. The capsule shell is declared and the vegetarian mark is therefore checkable. And the three front-panel claims are modest structure and function wording that names no disease. The problem is not the label's honesty. It is the size of the numbers the label is honest about.