Head to head
Align Probiotic Pro Formula discloses more: 4 out of 6 against 2. That is a statement about Align Probiotic Bloating Relief + Food Digestion's label, not about the product.
| Criterion | Align Probiotic Pro Formula | Align Probiotic Bloating Relief + Food Digestion | Agreement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Exact amount for every active ingredient No proprietary blend appears anywhere on the Supplement Facts panel. | 1 ✓ | 0 ✗ | differ |
| 2. Standardization percentage stated Wherever potency depends on a percentage, such as % withanolides, the label states it. | 1 ✓ | 0 ✗ | differ |
| 3. Chemical form or strain named “Magnesium glycinate,” not “magnesium.” For probiotics, every organism carries a strain designation. | 1 ✓ | 1 ✓ | same |
| 4. Dose within the trial range The disclosed dose falls inside the range human trials used for the outcome the product claims. | 0 ✗ | 0 ✗ | same |
| 5. Certificate of analysis is public A third-party certificate is reachable with no email gate and no account. | 0 ✗ | 0 ✗ | same |
| 6. Per-serving amounts are complete Serving size and servings per container are both on the panel. | 1 ✓ | 1 ✓ | same |
| Disclosure score | 4/6 | 2/6 |
The pair splits on 2 of the six criteria. The reasoning below is the same text that appears on each product page.
Align Probiotic Pro Formula: The single active carries an exact amount, Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum 35624 10 mg. No proprietary blend.
Align Probiotic Bloating Relief + Food Digestion: DIGEZYME Multi-enzyme Complex 23 mg is a blend total covering five enzymes (alpha-amylase, neutral protease, lactase, cellulase, lipase) with no per-enzyme amounts. Vitamin B12 2.4 mcg and the probiotic 10 mg do carry exact amounts, but a proprietary blend anywhere on the panel fails the criterion.
Align Probiotic Pro Formula: No standardization-dependent ingredient in the formula.
Align Probiotic Bloating Relief + Food Digestion: Enzyme potency is expressed in activity units (alpha-amylase in DU, protease in HUT, lactase in ALU, cellulase in CU, lipase in FIP), not in milligrams. A combined weight with no activity declaration cannot be converted into the unit the evidence uses, which is the functional test stated in the methodology. Same judgment as the BIOMA XOS row; flagged on the same basis.
Both labels were scored the same way on the remaining 4.
Align Probiotic Pro Formula: Strain designation 35624 is printed, not the species alone.
Align Probiotic Bloating Relief + Food Digestion: Every form is named. Vitamin B12 as cyanocobalamin, the probiotic carries strain designation 35624, and the five enzymes are each named individually rather than as an undifferentiated 'enzyme blend'.
Align Probiotic Pro Formula: Under methodology v1.13. The panel declares 1x10^9 CFU at manufacture but guarantees only 1x10^7 through the best-by date, and the through-expiry figure governs. Whorwell 2006 (PMID 16863564, n=362) found 1x10^8 CFU significantly superior to placebo in capsule form while 1x10^6 and 1x10^10 were not, so the guaranteed dose is ten times below the only capsule dose shown to work. Note that the at-manufacture figure of 1x10^9 would have scored 1 under the benefit-of-the-doubt rule; the ruling and the objection to it are published in the methodology.
Align Probiotic Bloating Relief + Food Digestion: Under methodology v1.13. The probiotic declares 1x10^9 CFU at manufacture but guarantees only 1x10^7 through the best-by date, ten times below the 1x10^8 capsule dose Whorwell 2006 (PMID 16863564) found superior to placebo. Vitamin B12 at 2.4 mcg is exactly the Daily Value, but the claimed outcome is bloating relief and food digestion rather than B12 repletion, and no adequate human trial was identified for B12 at that outcome. The enzymes sit inside a blend total, so none can be compared to a reference range under the attribution rule.
Align Probiotic Pro Formula: No publicly accessible third-party certificate of analysis located 2026-09-27. Search covered the 12 listing images, alignprobiotics.com product and education pages, and a site-scoped web search for 'certificate of analysis'. The alignprobiotics.com footer could not be walked directly because the domain is blocked to this session's browser, so the brand-site leg of the search is weaker here than for other rows. Recorded as a negative finding, not a claim that none exists.
Align Probiotic Bloating Relief + Food Digestion: No publicly accessible third-party certificate of analysis located 2026-09-27. Same search as the Align Pro Formula row and the same limitation: the alignprobiotics.com footer could not be walked directly because the domain is blocked to this session's browser. Recorded as a negative finding, not a claim that none exists.
Align Probiotic Pro Formula: Serving size 1 capsule and servings per container 63 are both printed on the panel.
Align Probiotic Bloating Relief + Food Digestion: Serving size 1 capsule and servings per container 28 are both printed on the panel. Note: the DIGEZYME weight is 23 mg, not 20 mg. The lower figure is what the listing thumbnail appears to show and was corrected by reading the panel at native resolution.