Three 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 material behind this site is unusually frank about a gap in its own reporting. It says the official SodaTide website could not be reached, that its product details came from a third-party review and from the packaging, that it was unable to check the formula against an official label, and it asks readers to confirm things against the bottle in their hands.
The bottle was available here. Its Supplement Facts panel closes the gap, and this is what it prints:
Beneath the blend the panel names its three organisms: Bifidobacterium infantis, Clostridium butyricum and Akkermansia muciniphila.
Why the numbers change everything. An ingredient list on its own cannot be argued with, because there is nothing in it to measure. Put amounts beside it and the question answers itself: the inulin here is somewhere between a twenty-fifth and a fiftieth of a researched prebiotic dose, and the resistant starch between a hundred-and-fiftieth and a three-hundredth of one.
None of this is hidden from anybody — it is printed on the bottle for anyone who turns it round. It is a limit of the format rather than an act of concealment: fibre takes up room, and grams of it will not go into one swallowable capsule. A bowl of porridge, a pear, a ladle of beans — each delivers fermentable fibre by the gram. Hold that thought when you weigh up what a single daily capsule can plausibly do.
The blend is declared the only way a label can declare a mixture: by weight, 36 mg. It is also the one line on the panel that tells you nothing useful.
Live cultures are counted, not weighed. The unit is colony forming units — how many viable organisms actually go down with the capsule. A milligram figure describes the powder, and probiotic powder is mostly the carrier the organisms are suspended in. Two products could both declare 36 mg and differ by a factor of thousands in what is alive inside them, with nothing on either label to tell them apart.
Published probiotic trials generally work somewhere between one and fifty billion CFU a day, and they report that figure because it is the one that governs the result.
So where does that leave a buyer? Three named organisms is better disclosure than most blends offer. How much of them you are getting is unknowable from anything published — which makes it a reasonable thing to ask the seller before committing to half a year's supply.
Each with the label amount and a full page of its own.
The bulk of the capsule by weight, and the fibre with the deepest prebiotic evidence base — though the trials behind that evidence used twenty-five to fifty times more.
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Digestion-resistant starch that ferments deeper in the colon than inulin does. It also carries the largest gap on this label between what is present and what was studied.
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One declared blend holding three named strains — which is where the “six ingredients” figure comes from. Its live-organism count is published nowhere.
Read the detailA 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.
Two months from the day you buy. If the product falls short of what you hoped for, you ask customer support for your money back inside that window. The order is a single charge with nothing recurring behind it.
No minimum trial period is attached to this offer as it is described here — other pages about this product do attach one, and that condition has not been carried across. Check the live refund policy before you buy, since these terms belong to the seller and can be revised.
The window is fixed at 60 days. What you buy may last far longer than that.
Write the purchase date down. Two things nobody publishes: who covers return postage, and whether an opened bottle can go back.
Start on the ingredients page. The per-capsule amounts and the three strain names there were read straight off the bottle — the very check the source material tells its readers to run for themselves. Those numbers are what should decide this, not the packaging.
$49 a bottle at the lowest · 60 days to change your mind · One capsule daily