Two amounts you can check, three organisms you cannot, and 347 milligrams in total.
Prepared by the Sodatidedaily Editorial Desk · Medically reviewed by Dr. Pascale Carbonara, MD · Updated
Sodatide declares three ingredients per capsule: chicory root inulin, potato resistant starch and a probiotic blend.
The amounts are 211 mg, 100 mg and 36 mg. The blend holds Bifidobacterium infantis, Clostridium butyricum and Akkermansia muciniphila, with no strain names or CFU count.
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Three rows with amounts and a dagger, then the three organisms named underneath the blend with no figures of their own.
| As printed on the panel | Amount per 2-capsule serving | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|
| Chicory Root Inulin (Cichorium intybus) (root) | 211 mg | † |
| Potato [Resistant Starch] (tuber) | 100 mg | † |
| Probiotic Blend | 36 mg | † |
| Bifidobacterium infantis | inside the 36 mg blend | Daily Value not established |
| Clostridium butyricum | inside the 36 mg blend | Daily Value not established |
| Akkermansia muciniphila | inside the 36 mg blend | Daily Value not established |
There is no proprietary blend. Ten dietary ingredients are declared and every one of them carries a figure. That is the only time this desk has been able to write that sentence about a product, and it is why the rest of this site can do arithmetic instead of guessing.
The footnote† Daily Value Not Established
Other ingredientsHypromellose (vegetarian capsule), microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate, silica.
Marks printed on the label itselfNon-GMO · Soy Free · Lab Tested. The Soy Free mark is a real allergen statement. There is no shellfish statement, and glucosamine is commonly manufactured from shellfish.
Chosen because they are the ones that change how you read the rest of the label.
The largest ingredient in the capsule, with species and plant part printed. The systematic review we read describes a trial using 8 grams a day of oligofructose plus inulin. The same review reports five randomised trials that found no effect on appetite sensations at all.
The 12-week randomised trial we read gave 45 grams a day to 68 adults and concluded it “did not increase satiety or reduce appetite and food intake”. The front of this bottle claims appetite control and satiety.
Three organisms under one weight. Legal under 21 CFR 101.36(c), which requires the total and a descending-order list but not individual amounts. It is the one place on this label where a number is withheld.
There is no CFU figure anywhere. ISAPP's guidance is that responsible manufacturers list the potency to expect through the end of shelf life. A milligram weight cannot be converted into a cell count without a potency figure, and none is published.
<i>B. infantis</i>, <i>C. butyricum</i>, <i>A. muciniphila</i> — three species names and no strain identifiers. NCCIH is explicit that one kind of an organism working does not mean another kind will.
Refrigerate for optimal quality. Keep away from heat, light and humidity. Store in a cool, dry place. All three are printed on the same panel and a buyer cannot follow all three at once.
See the full Supplement Facts panel for every line on the label.
Ten tiles from the supplied image set, captioned with the amount each one carries on the panel where it carries one at all.
A photograph is evidence that somebody selected a photograph. The amounts beside them come from the Supplement Facts panel, which is the only part of a label with rules attached to it.
One linear scale. Two of the three can be drawn; the third cannot, and that is itself the finding.
What this label printsWhat the research usedper 1-capsule serving, drawn to one scale
That is the whole capsule: 211 plus 100 plus 36. Drawn against the doses the trials actually used, the printed amounts are the thin marks at the left-hand end of each track. We have not exaggerated them to make the chart look better, and we have not drawn a bar for the probiotic blend, because a weight in milligrams cannot be converted into a count of live organisms without a potency figure this label does not carry.
Pick an ingredient. The number is the studied dose divided by the printed amount.
The label says one capsule a day. These figures are simply the studied dose divided by the printed amount — they are not a recommendation, and taking handfuls of capsules is not one either. They exist to show the size of the gap in a unit anybody can picture.
Scroll or use the arrows. Three declared ingredients, three organisms, four excipients.
211 mg · 38 times under a trial dose
First and largest on the panel, with the species printed in full: <i>Cichorium intybus</i>, root. It is a real prebiotic fibre with a real literature. The literature is in grams. The systematic review we read describes a trial using 8 grams a day; this capsule carries 211 milligrams.
100 mg · 450 times under a trial dose
Declared as <i>Potato [Resistant Starch] (tuber)</i>. The satiety trial we read gave 45 grams a day for twelve weeks and concluded it did not increase satiety or reduce appetite. That trial used 450 times what is in this capsule, and it found nothing.
36 mg · a proprietary blend
Three organisms under one total weight. Under 21 CFR 101.36(c) that is entirely legal: a blend declares its total and lists its ingredients in descending order by weight, and individual amounts are not required. It is also the only ingredient on this label whose amounts you cannot read.
no strain, no count
A species with genuine clinical work behind it, where the work is attached to specific strains carrying numbers. Without a strain designation there is no way to tell whether the organism in this capsule is the one that was studied. NCCIH is explicit that one kind of a genus behaving a certain way does not mean another kind will.
no strain, no count
A butyrate-producing organism used as a probiotic in some markets, again in named, numbered strains. The genus <i>Clostridium</i> also contains species nobody wants, which is precisely why a strain designation on the label would be worth having here.
no strain, no count, live or pasteurized not stated
The interesting one, and the one with the clearest published dose. The Nature Medicine trial we read gave 10<sup>10</sup> bacteria a day for three months, in both live and pasteurized form, to 32 people who completed it, and called itself a proof-of-concept study. This label gives a weight in milligrams for three organisms combined.
capsule shell
The vegetarian capsule shell, printed on the other-ingredients line. This is why the vegetarian mark on the listing is supportable rather than an assertion.
bulking agent
A standard filler. Worth noticing only because the listing also carries a 100% Natural Ingredients roundel, and this is a manufactured excipient.
flow agent
A standard manufacturing aid that stops powder sticking to machinery. Ordinary, disclosed, and not natural in any meaningful sense of the word.
anti-caking agent
The fourth item on the other-ingredients line. Also ordinary, also disclosed, also not what most people picture when a roundel says 100% natural.
Two of the three declared ingredients carry a printed milligram figure. The third is a proprietary blend: Probiotic Blend, 36 mg, followed by three organism names.
That is entirely legal. Under 21 CFR 101.36(c) a blend must declare the total weight of its dietary ingredients and list them in descending order of predominance by weight, and individual amounts are not required.
Descending order still gives you something, though less than usual here. With three ingredients in 36 mg, the organism listed third cannot exceed 12 mg. That is the only arithmetic the blend permits, and it is not very useful, because milligrams are not the unit that matters for a probiotic in the first place.
Which is the real point. Even a fully itemised blend — 20 mg, 10 mg, 6 mg — would not tell you how many living organisms you are getting, because that depends on the potency of the freeze-dried powder, and no potency figure is published.
Not the individual milligrams. A CFU count per organism per serving, guaranteed through the end of shelf life, and a strain designation for each. Those three things would make this label useful in a way that breaking up the blend would not.
Front of the card: what it is and the amount this label prints. Tap it over for the source and the exact words, including the parts that do not flatter the product.
The prebiotic half of this formula is declared well. Chicory root inulin is printed with its full binomial, Cichorium intybus, and its plant part, root. Potato resistant starch is printed with its plant part, tuber, and with the starch type named in brackets.
Those are not throwaway details. A great many labels print chicory extract or potato starch and leave a reader guessing which part of which plant, and whether the starch is resistant at all. This one does not.
Inulin and resistant starch are also genuinely reasonable things to pair with probiotic organisms: they are fermentable substrates, which is what makes a combination product coherent rather than arbitrary. The idea is sound.
The amounts are the argument, and they are set out in the chart above rather than repeated here.
NCCIH: the risk of harmful effects from probiotics is greater in people with severe illnesses or compromised immune systems. Take the label to a clinician, and be aware it gives them three species names and no potency.
This is the ingredient with the clearest published dose and the least label information. No strain, no count, no statement of whether it is live or pasteurized. The trial tested both forms separately.
Compare CFU with CFU and strain with strain. This label offers neither, so a like-for-like comparison with a competitor that publishes both cannot be made in this product's favour or against it.
Printed on the panel: Other Ingredients: Hypromellose (vegetarian capsule), microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate, silica.
Four items. Hypromellose is the capsule shell and naming it as a vegetarian capsule is what makes the vegetarian mark on the listing checkable rather than an assertion. Microcrystalline cellulose is a bulking agent, magnesium stearate a flow agent that stops powder sticking to machinery, and silica an anti-caking agent.
All four are ordinary and all four are disclosed, which is how it should be. They are worth a paragraph only because the listing also carries a 100% Natural Ingredients roundel, and these are four manufactured excipients.
What the line does not tell you is what the three organisms were grown on. Dairy-derived growth media are common in that industry, and the pack carries a dairy-free badge. If that matters to you, it is a question for the order desk rather than an inference from a website.
Every amount on this page was read off the Supplement Facts panel in the label photograph supplied with this product, at native resolution, rather than retyped from marketing copy. If the panel on your bottle differs in any line, the bottle wins and we want the photograph: the website inbox in the site footer.
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.
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 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 “did not increase satiety or reduce appetite and food intake”. That is 450 times the amount in this capsule, and it did not do the thing the front of this bottle claims.
It is the ingredient with the clearest published dose and the least information on the label. The Nature Medicine study gave 10<sup>10</sup> 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.
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.
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.
One bottle is 30 capsules at one a day, so a bottle is exactly thirty days and the front of the label says so. The 60-day guarantee runs from purchase, not from delivery, and the price is shown at checkout.
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