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Sodatide Supplement Facts: The Full Panel
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Prepared by the Sodatidedaily Editorial Desk · Medically reviewed by Dr. Pascale Carbonara, MD · Updated
Quick answer
One serving of Sodatide is 1 capsule, and each bottle holds 30 servings.
Per capsule: chicory root inulin 211 mg, potato resistant starch 100 mg, and a 36 mg probiotic blend of three organisms. Other ingredients are hypromellose, microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate and silica. No Daily Value is set.
The panel
The same thing as a table
Three declared ingredients, then the three organisms named inside 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 |
What is not on this panel
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.
The whole wrap label, annotated
Nineteen markers across all three panels. The left panel is where the three storage instructions argue with each other.
Swipe the label sideways to reach every marker.
Tap a numbered marker on the label to read what that line says, and what it leaves out.
Six ways to read this panel
Three of the six are things this label does properly, and three are things it does not do at all.
1
capsule, 30 servings a bottle
Serving size
As a dietary supplement, take one (1) capsule daily with an 8 oz. glass of water. Refrigerate for optimal quality.
One capsule is one serving and there are thirty in a bottle, so a bottle is exactly thirty days and the front of the label says so: 30-DAY SUPPLY. Every amount on the panel is what one capsule delivers.
347 mg
all three ingredients added up
The whole capsule
211 plus 100 plus 36. That is the entire declared contents of one serving, before the shell and the excipients.
It is worth holding onto, because the research these three ingredients come from is measured in grams. Three hundred and forty-seven milligrams is about a third of a gram.
none
no CFU figure anywhere
Live count
Probiotics are dosed in colony-forming units, not milligrams. There is no CFU figure on this label, on the listing, or anywhere in the material we were given.
ISAPP's consumer guidance says responsible manufacturers list the genus, species and strain, and the potency to expect through the end of shelf life. This label gives genus and species for three organisms and a combined weight. A weight is not a potency.
0 of 3
species only, no designations
Strains named
Bifidobacterium infantis, Clostridium butyricum, Akkermansia muciniphila. Three genus-and-species names and not one strain identifier.
That matters because probiotic evidence is strain-specific. NCCIH puts it plainly: if a specific kind of an organism helps, “that doesn't necessarily mean that another kind… would do the same thing”.
4
shell, filler, flow agent, anti-caking
Other ingredients
Hypromellose (vegetarian capsule), microcrystalline cellulose, magnesium stearate, silica.
All four are ordinary and all four are disclosed, which is how it should be. The shell being hypromellose is what makes the vegetarian mark checkable. The other three are what make the 100% Natural Ingredients roundel a stretch.
3
instructions that do not agree
Storage
On one panel: Refrigerate for optimal quality. Then: STORAGE: Keep away from heat, light, and humidity to preserve freshness. Then: STORE IN A COOL, DRY PLACE.
A refrigerator is cool. It is not dry, and it is not free of humidity. Three instructions, printed within a few centimetres of each other, that a reader cannot follow all at once.
What this panel gets right
Start here, because it is a longer list than this site's score would suggest.
Serving size and servings per container are both printed, and they agree with the front of the label: one capsule, thirty servings, 30-DAY SUPPLY. That single line does more work than any other on a supplement label, because it is what turns a bottle into a supply and a price into a cost per day.
An amount per serving appears for every declared ingredient. 211 mg, 100 mg, 36 mg. 21 CFR 101.36 requires the quantitative amount by weight per serving of each dietary ingredient, and it is here.
The footnote is correct. None of these three has an established Daily Value, so each carries a dagger pointing at † Daily Value Not Established at the foot of the panel. That is exactly the convention the regulation describes.
The other-ingredients line is complete, four items, with the capsule shell named as hypromellose and identified as a vegetarian capsule.
A proper caution panel is printed, covering pregnancy, nursing, under-18s and known medical conditions, plus the safety-seal warning. Several products on this desk carry none.
A complete distributor line: Instituto Experience, Lakeland FL, 33804, with a telephone number and an email address. Most labels on this desk print a brand name and leave it there.
The FDA disclaimer is boxed on the same panel as the asterisked claims, which is what 21 CFR 101.93 asks for and what a surprising number of labels get wrong.
The one Sodatide line without a per-organism number
Probiotic Blend — 36 mg — †, followed by three organism names and no figures beside any of them.
This is a proprietary blend. Under 21 CFR 101.36(c) it 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. It is entirely legal.
The descending-order rule gives you one small thing: with three ingredients inside 36 mg, whichever organism is listed third cannot exceed 12 mg. That is the only arithmetic available, and it is nearly useless here, because milligrams are not the unit a probiotic dose is measured in.
There is no CFU count. Not on the panel, not on the listing, not anywhere in the material we were given. ISAPP's consumer guidance says responsible manufacturers list the genus, species and strain, plus the potency to expect through the end of shelf life. This label gives genus and species. A weight is not a potency.
And no strain designation appears for any of the three. NCCIH puts it plainly that different probiotics can act differently: “For example, if a specific kind of Lactobacillus helps prevent an illness, that doesn’t necessarily mean that another kind… would do the same thing.”
The shortest way to say it
Everything on this panel that can be checked, checks out. The one thing that matters most for a probiotic — how many living organisms, of which strains — is the one thing the panel does not say.
Three storage lines on one panel
Under SUGGESTED USE: Refrigerate for optimal quality.
Under STORAGE: Keep away from heat, light, and humidity to preserve freshness.
In the bold block below: STORE IN A COOL, DRY PLACE.
A refrigerator is cool and dark. It is not dry, and humidity is what it produces. A buyer cannot follow all three, and the label does not say which takes precedence.
The brief adds a fourth version that the label never prints and that is the most useful of them: refrigerate after opening, to preserve the potency of the probiotics. It names the trigger and gives the reason. It is not on the bottle.
We would follow the refrigeration line, because it is the only one that relates to keeping live organisms alive, and keep the cap tight. That is our reading, not an instruction, and the order desk is the place to ask for a real one.
Three things we checked ourselves
We added the capsule up
211 plus 100 plus 36 is 347 milligrams of declared ingredient in one serving. That figure is not printed anywhere on the label; we calculated it, and it is the single most useful number on this site.
We looked for a CFU and did not find one
Panel, listing, brief, every image file in the pack at full resolution. There is no colony-forming-unit figure anywhere. We publish the absence rather than filling it.
If your bottle disagrees
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The Sodatide Label, In Full: common questions
What is actually in one capsule?
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.
How many live bacteria are in it?
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.
Which probiotic strains does it use?
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.
Why does the Probiotic Blend not show individual amounts?
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.
How am I supposed to store it?
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.
Is it vegetarian?
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.
Is it 100% natural, as the badge says?
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.
Who makes it?
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.
What are the lot and certificate numbers?
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.
Ready to try Sodatide?
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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