Twenty-one ingredients share 15.47 milligrams.

The short answer

The panel, transcribed

No typed panel was supplied with this product and the written pack said in as many words not to invent one. Every figure below was read off the label artwork.

Twenty-one names, one weight

This is the one thing arithmetic can say about a blend with no split, and it comes out of the rule that makes the blend legal in the first place.

FDA's labeling guide requires the ingredients inside a proprietary blend to be listed in descending order of predominance by weight, with the blend's total weight on the same line. So if the eighth name weighed more than 15.47 ÷ 8, the seven above it would each have to weigh more still, and eight numbers would already exceed the 15.47 mg the label declares. The k-th name therefore weighs at most 15.47 ÷ k mg. Nothing here is an estimate: it is the largest value each position is allowed to hold.

The other ten

For ten of the twenty-one names, no daily amount was found in a source this site could open and read in full. That is written down rather than filled in.

1. African Mango Seed Extractposition 2 · ≤ 7.74 mg

   No daily amount for this ingredient was found in a source this site could open and read in full. Rather than reach for a figure, this site says so.

2. Eleuthero Root Extractposition 5 · ≤ 3.09 mg

   No daily amount for this ingredient was found in a source this site could open and read in full. Rather than reach for a figure, this site says so.

3. Astragalus Root Extractposition 6 · ≤ 2.58 mg

   The monograph is explicit: “Clinical trial data are lacking to guide dosing recommendations for A. membranaceus products.” There is no published amount to compare this one against.

4. Cayenne Pepper Fruit Extractposition 10 · ≤ 1.55 mg

   No daily amount for this ingredient was found in a source this site could open and read in full. Rather than reach for a figure, this site says so.

5. Grapefruit Seedposition 11 · ≤ 1.41 mg

   No daily amount for this ingredient was found in a source this site could open and read in full. Rather than reach for a figure, this site says so.

6. Raspberry Ketonesposition 13 · ≤ 1.19 mg

   No daily amount for this ingredient was found in a source this site could open and read in full. Rather than reach for a figure, this site says so.

7. L-Tyrosineposition 15 · ≤ 1.03 mg

   No daily amount for this ingredient was found in a source this site could open and read in full. Rather than reach for a figure, this site says so.

8. Monoammonium Glycyrrhizinateposition 18 · ≤ 0.86 mg

   Not a dose but a limit: the suggested acceptable daily intake for glycyrrhizin is 0.2 mg per kg of body weight — about 14 mg for a 70 kg adult. This ingredient is eighteenth of twenty-one, so it weighs at most 0.86 mg. It is comfortably under.

9. GABA (Gamma Aminobutyric Acid)position 19 · ≤ 0.81 mg

   No daily amount for this ingredient was found in a source this site could open and read in full. Rather than reach for a figure, this site says so.

10. L-Tryptophanposition 20 · ≤ 0.77 mg

    No daily amount for this ingredient was found in a source this site could open and read in full. Rather than reach for a figure, this site says so.

The one amount you can check

The honest half of this label, and it deserves saying plainly before anything else.

Two answers to the same question

Both figures arrived with this product. The sales page says 180 to 210 days; the review copy supplied alongside it says most buyers wait three to six weeks. This site publishes both rather than choosing one, because choosing one would be inventing a fact.

Blood sugar, or focus?

Four places where the bottle and the material that sells it do not agree. Where they conflict this site follows the bottle.

1. What the product is for

   On the bottle

   ADVANCED BLOOD SUGAR SUPPORT, printed under the name on the bottle

   In the written pack

   The sales page's checkout template says cognitive function and mental clarity, and the same page's keywords also list diabetes

   These are not the same product category. The bottle is the document that governs, and it says blood sugar. A keyword naming a disease is a different thing again: FDA's rule is that a product intended to treat or prevent a disease is a drug, whatever the label calls it. The written pack supplied with this product flagged the clash itself — confirm the bottle, do not mix formulas — and this site follows the bottle.

2. Whether there is a phone number

   On the bottle

   +1 (877) 257 0710, under DISTRIBUTED BY

   In the written pack

   no public phone on the sales/contact pages we checked

   The written pack could not find a phone number. The bottle prints one. It is published on this site, on this page and on the contact page, because a buyer holding the bottle already has it and a buyer who has not bought yet cannot find it.

3. Where the distributor is

   On the bottle

   Hawaiian Harmony, PO Box 12730, Ogden, UT 84404

   In the written pack

   Office at 1500 Broadway, Floor 6, New York, NY 10036; returns to 300 Park Avenue, Floor 17, New York, NY 10022

   A post-office box in Utah against two Manhattan office addresses. A PO box is a valid address for a distributor line and it is not a street a parcel can be handed to. Nothing supplied explains how the three relate.

4. What it is called

   On the bottle

   Hawaiian Harmony, with support at northsupplements.online

   In the written pack

   hawaiianzharmony.com, [email protected], gethawaiianharmony.com

   Four names for one transaction. The retail domain carries a z the product does not have, the sales domain carries a get, and the support address on the bottle belongs to a fourth company entirely.

Four of them. Where the two sources disagree this site follows the bottle, because the bottle is the thing a buyer can hold and read. Nothing is reconciled by guessing.

The label, mapped

Nine places on the artwork worth stopping at.

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1. 1. Suggested Use Shake well, one dropperful daily, in the mouth. Every figure on this site is per dropperful because of this line.
2. 2. Storage Away from heat, light and humidity. No refrigeration is asked for and none is implied here.
3. 3. Caution Under 18, pregnant or nursing, or a known medical condition — the label's own exclusions.
4. 4. Distributed by Hawaiian Harmony, PO Box 12730, Ogden, UT 84404, with a phone number and a support address at a different company. The written pack gives two New York addresses and no phone.
5. 5. Advanced Blood Sugar Support The product's own descriptor, printed under the name. The sales page describes cognition instead.
6. 6. Chromium, 7 mcg The only ingredient on this label with an amount of its own, and its 20% figure is correct.
7. 7. Proprietary Blend, 15.47 mg One weight, twenty-one names. 99.95% of the declared weight is here.
8. 8. The four footnotes The ^ and " marks are 20:1 and 10:1 concentrate ratios. No marker compound or standardisation percentage appears anywhere.
9. 9. Other Ingredients Water, natural flavors, potassium sorbate, stevia, xylitol, citrus extract. Xylitol is worth knowing about in a household with a dog.

Nine markers over the label artwork supplied with this product. Nothing has been added to the artwork and nothing removed from it.

How to take it

1. 1

   Check the seal

   The label says not to use it if the safety seal is damaged or missing.

2. 2

   Shake it

   The first words of the instruction: Shake well before each use. It is a suspension in water, and the twenty-one names are 15.47 mg of it.

3. 3

   One dropperful, daily

   1 ml, in the mouth, swallowed. Thirty in a bottle, so a bottle is thirty days.

4. 4

   Keep it away from heat, light and humidity

   The label's own storage line. It does not ask for refrigeration.

5. 5

   Keep it away from the dog

   Xylitol is in the Other Ingredients list, and the amount is not declared.

6. 6

   Write down the purchase date

   The refund window is 180 days from purchase, and the sales page says to judge the product at 180 to 210 days.

Four questions worth answering first

The packs

Three packs with prices, which makes this the one part of the page that needs no assumptions at all.

2 bottles

Price

$158

Per bottle

$79

Servings

60

Days, at one a day

60

Cost per day

$2.63

Reaches day 180?

no

Where to buy

3 bottles

Price

$207

Per bottle

$69

Servings

90

Days, at one a day

90

Cost per day

$2.30

Reaches day 180?

no

Where to buy

Most bought

6 bottles

Price

$294

Per bottle

$49

Servings

180

Days, at one a day

180

Cost per day

$1.63

Reaches day 180?

yes

Where to buy

Getting the money back

1. 1

   Write inside 180 days

   Via the sales contact page, with the order ID. The written pack reports no public phone on the sales or contact pages; the bottle itself prints +1 (877) 257 0710.

2. 2

   Three things in the parcel

   Full name, email, order ID.

3. 3

   Post it with tracking

   To 300 Park Avenue, Floor 17, New York, NY 10022, USA. The pack says return shipping is the buyer's cost.

4. 4

   Then wait twice

   3 to 5 business days after they credit it, then a further 5 to 10 days on the card.

Six things buyers raise

The authenticity check

Everything supplied that identifies this bottle and this seller, and what each item is actually worth.

The four marks on the pack

1. 

   FDA Registered Facility

   filing

   The label states the product “has been manufactured in an FDA registered facility.” A registration is a filing. It is not an inspection result and not an approval of anything in the bottle.

2. 

   GMP Good Manufacturing Practice

   process

   Manufacturing process, not formula and not dose. It says a practice was followed; it says nothing about whether 15.47 mg is enough of anything.

3. 

   Foreign and Domestic Ingredients

   sourcing

   A sourcing statement, and it matches the label's own wording: made in the USA with globally sourced ingredients. It names no country and no supplier.

4. 

   Money-back satisfaction

   promise

   A seller's promise, and the only one of the four with a number behind it: 180 days on the sales page kits, claimed by writing to the sales contact page with the order ID.

Four marks were supplied with this product. None is a test result for this lot, and this site presents none of them as one.

Against the alternatives

Our score

What this label does not publish

1. The split inside the 15.47 mg blend

   No individual amount is given for any of the twenty-one names. 21 CFR 101.36(c) permits this. It does not make the amounts knowable.

2. Standardisation for any botanical

   Ten names carry a 20:1 concentrate marker and one a 10:1. None carries a marker compound or a percentage — no gymnemic acid content, no EGCG content, no ginsenoside content — so the extract weight cannot be converted into an amount of anything active.

3. How much caffeine is in it

   Guarana seed is 3% to more than 5% caffeine by dry weight. Guarana is fourth of twenty-one, so its ceiling is 3.87 mg, but no caffeine content is declared and the panel has no caffeine line.

4. How much xylitol is in it

   Xylitol is in the Other Ingredients list, which is unquantified by design. It is worth knowing about in a household with a dog.

5. A certificate of analysis

   A CoA reference is printed. The document was not supplied to this site, so nothing here treats it as a test result.

6. A sales phone number

   The written pack reports none on the sales or contact pages. The bottle prints one, and this site publishes it.

7. Shipping cost and delivery estimate

   Neither was supplied, so neither is printed.

8. Any customer rating this site can stand behind

   Review figures were supplied. They are published as layout copy, with their own arithmetic checked, and are marked up as reviews nowhere.

9. Who manufactures it

   The label names a distributor and states that the product was made in an FDA registered facility. It does not name the facility.

Nine things this site would print if they had been supplied. Each is written here rather than filled in, because a plausible number in one of these slots would be worth less than the empty slot.

Questions

Sources

Sixteen, every one opened. Nothing is cited on this site that was not read.

1. Chromium — Fact Sheet for Health ProfessionalsNIH Office of Dietary SupplementsDaily Value 35 mcg; Adequate Intake 35 mcg for men and 25 mcg for women aged 19–50; chromium-only supplements typically provide 200–500 mcg; diabetes trials used 1.28 to 1,000 mcg daily, most often as picolinate; about 1.2% of chromium is absorbed from chromium picolinate; no Tolerable Upper Intake Level was established; there is “insufficient rationale to recommend chromium supplements for people with type 2 diabetes.”
2. Dietary Supplements for Exercise and Athletic PerformanceNIH Office of Dietary SupplementsBeta-alanine 1.6–6.4 g a day; arginine 2–20 g a day, which “provided little or no enhancement of athletic performance”; glutamine at 0.3 g per kg of body weight and up to almost 45 g a day; little support for ginseng in athletic performance.
3. Carnitine — Fact Sheet for Health ProfessionalsNIH Office of Dietary Supplements1 to 4 g a day in athletic-performance studies; supplemental L-carnitine bioavailability about 14% to 18% against 63% to 75% for dietary carnitine.
4. Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide, Chapter IV: Nutrition LabelingU.S. Food and Drug AdministrationBlend ingredients must be listed “in descending order of predominance by weight” with the blend's total weight on the same line; ingredients with an RDI or DRV must be listed separately with their individual weights declared. 21 CFR 101.36(b)(2) and (c).
5. FDA 101: Dietary SupplementsU.S. Food and Drug Administration“The FDA does NOT have the authority to approve dietary supplements for safety and effectiveness, or to approve their labeling, before the supplements are sold to the public”; a product intended to treat, prevent or cure a disease is a drug, whatever it is labelled.
6. Paws Off Xylitol; It's Dangerous for DogsU.S. Food and Drug AdministrationXylitol appears in many products including dietary supplements; in dogs it “may result in a potent release of insulin” and “a rapid and profound decrease in the level of blood sugar” within 10 to 60 minutes. FDA advises checking labels and keeping such products out of reach.
7. Gymnema — clinical monographDrugs.com natural products database“Clinical studies investigating antidiabetic effects have typically used 200 or 400 mg extract daily standardized to contain 25% gymnemic acids”; 500 to 1,000 mg a day of leaf extract in diabetes trials; “Few methodologically sound clinical studies exist.”
8. Green Tea — clinical monographDrugs.com natural products databaseCatechins or extract at 160 to 2,488 mg a day; an EGCG range of 84 to 386 mg a day for diabetes support; green tea extract should not be taken on an empty stomach because plasma EGCG rises fivefold in the fasted state.
9. Guarana — clinical monographDrugs.com natural products database“Doses ranging from 75 mg to 1,000 mg daily have been used in limited clinical trials”; guarana seed is 3% to greater than 5% caffeine by dry weight against approximately 1% to 2% for coffee beans.
10. Ginseng — clinical monographDrugs.com natural products databaseCrude root 0.5 to 3 g a day; “the dose of extracts has generally ranged from 100 to 400 mg”; glucose improvements reported in some studies but not others.
11. Forskolin — clinical monographDrugs.com natural products database“Oral forskolin has been studied using 10 mg daily over 2 to 6 months”; 250 mg of a 10% forskolin extract twice daily for 12 weeks in obesity work.
12. Maca — clinical monographDrugs.com natural products database1.5 to 3 g a day of gelatinised maca root over 12 weeks; 1,500 mg reported not effective and 3,000 mg effective in one SSRI-related trial.
13. Grape Seed — clinical monographDrugs.com natural products databaseOral doses of 150 to 2,000 mg a day over 2 to 24 weeks.
14. Astragalus — clinical monographDrugs.com natural products database“Clinical trial data are lacking to guide dosing recommendations for A. membranaceus products.”
15. Licorice — clinical monographDrugs.com natural products database“The acceptable daily intake (ADI) for glycyrrhizin is suggested to be 0.2 mg/kg/day”, with a proposed no-observed-effects level of 2 mg/kg/day; mineralocorticoid hypertension has been produced by as little as 50 g a day of licorice.
16. Health Products Compliance GuidanceU.S. Federal Trade Commission“Testimonials that report results more dramatic than users can generally expect are likely to be deceptive”; randomised controlled human trials are “the most reliable form of evidence” for health-benefit claims.