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 own page is careful about this, and deserves credit for it. It states that “no per-capsule milligram amounts and no CFU count were published on the pages we reviewed”, that the other two probiotic strains are not disclosed, and that it will not invent a number it cannot read on a label. That is the right instinct, and it is rarer than it should be.
But the product label does publish them. The Supplement Facts panel on the bottle carries the milligram amounts and names all three strains. Here is what it declares, read directly from the label:
The three probiotic 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 more than it might seem. The reference asked exactly the right question and could not answer it: it noted that fibre trial doses are “measured in grams per day — a lot to fit into one capsule”. With the label in hand the comparison can finally be completed, and the answer is that 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 a scandal and it is not concealment — the numbers are printed on the bottle. 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 is taking 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 number 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 are actually swallowing. 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 on the label 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 genuinely 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 a six-month supply.
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 money-back guarantee from the date of purchase. It is the clearest commercial commitment on the page, and the seller also states that the purchase is one-time with no automatic rebill.
The seller asks that you use the product for at least 30 days before requesting a refund, then contact support inside the 60-day window.
Read those two conditions together and the practical window to act 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 it is narrower than the headline number suggests, and it 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. 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 — figures the seller's own page says were not available. They are the numbers that should shape the decision.
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