Chicory Root Inulin
Cichorium intybus (root) 211 mg per capsuleThe largest single component of the capsule, and one of the best-characterised prebiotic fibres there is — studied at amounts roughly twenty-five to fifty times larger.
Learn moreThree components, three full pages — what each one is, what the research found, how much the studies used, and how that compares with the amount the label declares.
Each page follows the same structure: what the ingredient is, what published research has found, what its presence at this amount means, and the safety points worth knowing.
Every page states the amount used in research alongside the amount on the label, because that is the comparison that decides whether a named ingredient means anything. For this product the label makes the comparison possible: 211 mg, 100 mg and 36 mg.
Sorted honestly, the three fall out like this. Chicory root inulin is the best-characterised prebiotic of the two fibres and the largest component here. Potato resistant starch has genuinely interesting research behind it and the widest gap between label amount and studied amount. The probiotic blend is the most interesting and the least assessable — three strains named in full, and no CFU count anywhere.
The seller's page names three ingredients and describes a three-strain probiotic blend. It publishes no amount for any of them, anywhere — no milligrams, no CFU count — and it names only one of the three strains.
The product label publishes nearly all of it. The Supplement Facts panel on the bottle carries the milligram amounts and names all three strains. Read directly from the label:
The three strains, also named in full on the label: Bifidobacterium infantis, Clostridium butyricum and Akkermansia muciniphila. The sales page names only the third.
Why this matters. Without amounts, a named ingredient list cannot be checked against anything. With them, the comparison is simple arithmetic: 211 mg of inulin is roughly one twenty-fifth to one fiftieth of a studied prebiotic dose, and 100 mg of resistant starch is roughly one hundred-and- fiftieth to one three-hundredth of one.
That is not concealment — the numbers are printed on the bottle, and anyone can read them. It is a physical constraint: fibre is bulky, and a single small capsule cannot hold a gram-scale dose of it. Anyone eating a bowl of oats, a pear or a serving of beans takes in several grams of fermentable fibre. It is the fact that matters most when judging what one capsule a day can realistically do.
The label declares the probiotic blend by weight — 36 mg. That is the one figure on the panel that cannot be interpreted.
Probiotics are dosed in colony forming units, not milligrams. A CFU count measures how many live organisms you actually swallow. A weight tells you how much powder is in the capsule, and that powder is mostly carrier material. Two products both declaring 36 mg could differ by several orders of magnitude in live organisms, and nothing published distinguishes them.
Typical probiotic research uses doses in the region of one to fifty billion CFU a day, and trials report the figure because it is the variable that matters.
What this means practically: the strains are named, which is better than most blends manage, but the amount of live culture cannot be established from any published source. That is a fair question to put to the seller before ordering six months' worth.
Each with the label amount and a full page of its own.
The largest single component of the capsule, and one of the best-characterised prebiotic fibres there is — studied at amounts roughly twenty-five to fifty times larger.
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A starch that escapes digestion and ferments further along the colon than inulin — and the ingredient with the widest gap between label amount and research amount.
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Three strains named in full on the label, including one of the most interesting organisms in metabolic research — with no CFU count anywhere.
Learn moreA named ingredient list is better than nothing, and this label provides an unusually good one — individual amounts rather than a proprietary blend, and all three probiotic species named.
But an amount only means something next to the amount that was studied. Prebiotic inulin research uses 5 to 10 grams a day. Resistant starch research uses 15 to 30 grams. This capsule holds 211 mg and 100 mg.
That is not concealment — it is printed on the bottle — and it follows from the format. A capsule this size physically cannot hold a gram-scale fibre dose.
The seller states a 60-day satisfaction guarantee from the date of purchase and describes it as unconditional. It also states the purchase is one-time with no automatic renewals or auto-billing, which is a genuine point in its favour.
The same page says twice that a refund follows “at least 30 days of use”. Read together with the 60-day limit, the practical window to request a refund is days 30 to 60 — about 30 days wide, not 60.
That is not unreasonable for a product whose own rationale is that microbiome change takes weeks. But “unconditional” is not quite the right word for a guarantee with a stated precondition, and the gap is easy to miss.
Only the two-bottle bundle is a 60-day supply and fits inside the guarantee at all. The three-bottle bundle runs 90 days and the six-bottle bundle 180 days — three times longer than the window.
Put day 30 and day 60 in your calendar the day you order. The stated refund contact is [email protected]. Two things the published terms do not settle: who pays return postage, and whether opened bottles are accepted.
Read the ingredients page first. This site publishes the per-capsule amounts and all three probiotic strain names, read directly from the product label — none of which appears on the seller's page at all. They are the numbers that should shape the decision.
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