- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient0 ✗
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named0 ✗
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
An independent audit of gut-health supplement labels
Most gut supplements make the same claims. Few tell you what is in the bottle.
Supplement Facts Check scores best-selling gut-health supplements on six yes-or-no questions about what their labels disclose: the exact doses, the specific forms, and whether any of it can be verified. The rubric was committed in public before any product data was collected, and every ruling made since is in the commit history.
Pilot results
Of 18 products scored, 7 disclosed an exact amount for every active ingredient, and a public third-party certificate of analysis could not be located for 18. The highest score was 5 out of 6.
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient0 ✗
- 2. Standardization percentage stated0 ✗
- 3. Chemical form or strain named0 ✗
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient0 ✗
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete0 ✗
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient1 ✓
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete0 ✗
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient1 ✓
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete0 ✗
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient1 ✓
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range1 ✓
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient1 ✓
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient0 ✗
- 2. Standardization percentage stated0 ✗
- 3. Chemical form or strain named0 ✗
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient0 ✗
- 2. Standardization percentage stated0 ✗
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient0 ✗
- 2. Standardization percentage stated0 ✗
- 3. Chemical form or strain named0 ✗
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient0 ✗
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete0 ✗
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient1 ✓
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete0 ✗
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient0 ✗
- 2. Standardization percentage stated0 ✗
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient1 ✓
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient0 ✗
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named0 ✗
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient1 ✓
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient0 ✗
- 2. Standardization percentage stated1 ✓
- 3. Chemical form or strain named1 ✓
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete0 ✗
- 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient0 ✗
- 2. Standardization percentage stated0 ✗
- 3. Chemical form or strain named0 ✗
- 4. Dose within the trial range0 ✗
- 5. Certificate of analysis is public0 ✗
- 6. Per-serving amounts are complete1 ✓
The sample
All 30 products in the captured ranking, in rank order. 18 pass the inclusion test, 12 are excluded, 0 are undecided. Exclusions stay visible: a sample is only auditable if the rejections are shown alongside the acceptances.
| # | Product | Inclusion | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Physician's CHOICE Probiotics 60 Billion CFU Physician's Choice | included | scored |
| 2 | Garden of Life Dr. Formulated Once Daily Women's Probiotics Garden of Life | excluded | |
| 3 | Physician's CHOICE Probiotics for Women Physician's Choice | excluded | |
| 4 | Seed DS-01 Daily Synbiotic Seed | included | scored |
| 5 | Culturelle Pro Strength Probiotics Culturelle | included | scored |
| 6 | ZBiotics Pre-Alcohol Probiotic ZBiotics | excluded | |
| 7 | vH essentials Probiotics for Women vH essentials | excluded | |
| 8 | Nature's Bounty Probiotic Acidophilus Nature's Bounty | included | scored |
| 9 | Florastor Probiotic Florastor | included | scored |
| 10 | Lemme Purr Vaginal Probiotic Gummies Lemme | excluded | |
| 11 | Culturelle Probiotics for Women 4-in-1 Culturelle | excluded | |
| 12 | Happy V Vaginal Probiotics Happy V | excluded | |
| 13 | Align Probiotic, Pro Formula Align | included | scored |
| 14 | RepHresh Pro-B Vaginal Probiotic RepHresh | excluded | |
| 15 | BIOMA Probiotics BIOMA | included | scored |
| 16 | Garden of Life Dr Formulated Probiotics for Men Garden of Life | included | scored |
| 17 | Align Probiotic Bloating Relief + Food Digestion Align | included | scored |
| 18 | Doctor's Recipes Women's Probiotic Doctor's Recipes | included | scored |
| 19 | Itiban Feminine Vaginal Probiotics Gummies Itiban | excluded | |
| 20 | NOW Supplements Probiotic-10 NOW | included | scored |
| 21 | Culturelle Daily Chewable Probiotics for Kids Culturelle | included | scored |
| 22 | Lemme Debloat Digestive & Gut Health Gummies Lemme | included | scored |
| 23 | BioGaia Prodentis Oral Probiotics BioGaia | excluded | |
| 24 | MaryRuth Organics Kids Probiotics MaryRuth Organics | included | scored |
| 25 | NewRhythm Probiotics 50 Billion CFU NewRhythm | included | scored |
| 26 | Digestive Advantage Probiotic Gummies Digestive Advantage | included | scored |
| 27 | AZO Complete Feminine Balance AZO | excluded | |
| 28 | AZO Dual Protection Urinary + Vaginal AZO | excluded | |
| 29 | Phillips' Colon Health Daily Probiotic Phillips' | included | scored |
| 30 | Garden of Life Dr. Formulated Kids+ Probiotics Garden of Life | included | scored |
Full reasoning for every decision, including the exclusion reason on each excluded row, is in sample.csv.

The six criteria
Each one scores 1 or 0. The maximum is 6. A product using a generic ingredient at a studied dose scores the same as one using a trademarked equivalent; price, taste and brand reputation are not scored at all.
Check the work
Every score links to a dated screenshot of the label it was read from. Every dose range links to the trial it came from on PubMed. The dataset, the rubric and every revision to either are in a public repository, released into the public domain. If a score is wrong, the evidence to show it is one click away, and corrections are welcome.
The author owns a supplement brand that competes with products scored here. That is stated plainly, along with what was done about it, in the conflict-of-interest statement.