Supplement Ingredient Library
The Complete Ingredient Breakdown. Holding supplement companies to a cleaner and higher standard. 14 ingredients so far, each one a full breakdown: what it does, verified dosing, interactions, side effects, and what the label will not tell you.
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Beryllium
OSHA’s beryllium standard, 29 CFR 1910.1024(k)(3)(ii)(E), requires employers to offer a blood test measuring immune reaction to the metal.
September 23, 2026Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri)
What Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri) actually does for memory and focus, real bacoside dosing, sedative and thyroid drug interactions, side effects
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Calamus
Calamus is the rhizome of Acorus calamus L., banned from US food since May 9, 1968 under 21 CFR 189.110.
September 15, 2026Caraway
Caraway is the dried fruit of Carum carvi L., an Apiaceae biennial whose fruit carries 3 to 7 percent volatile oil, of which 50 to 65 percen
September 16, 2026Cardamom
Green cardamom seed carries 6.6 to 10.6 percent volatile oil by weight, and two compounds, 1,8-cineole and alpha-terpinyl acetate, account f
September 17, 2026Carob
Carob pod powder carries 39.8 g of dietary fiber and 0.65 g of fat per 100 g (USDA FoodData Central 173755), while sweetened carob chips run
September 18, 2026Cascara Sagrada
Cascara sagrada is bark that USP requires be collected not less than one year before use, harvested from Frangula purshiana (DC.) A.Gray ex
September 21, 2026Catuaba
Of 168 supplement records in the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database whose ingredient list names catuaba, 145 declare no botanical genus a
September 22, 2026Cayenne
Cayenne is the dried ripe fruit of Capsicum annuum , and European Pharmacopoeia monograph 1859 requires at least 0.4 percent total capsaicin
September 23, 2026Centaury
The German Commission E monograph for Centaurii herba, published July 6, 1988, gives one dose: 6 grams of dried herb daily.
September 23, 2026Cesium
Cesium chloride is sold to consumers at 500 mg to 3 g per serving as a cancer treatment, and in the 11 of 20 published poisoning cases where
September 19, 2026Chanca Piedra
Chanca piedra is Phyllanthus niruri L., and the one placebo-controlled trial in calcium stone formers randomized 69 patients, in 2004, and f
September 23, 2026Chicory Root
Chicory taproot runs 15 to 20 percent total dietary fiber by fresh weight and up to 90 percent total fiber on a dry weight basis, a mix of i
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