Glyco Harmony Supplement Facts: The Full Label

Per 1 ml: 0.7 micrograms of chromium as chromium picolinate, and 200 mg of a proprietary blend listed as maca root, grape seed, guarana seed, African mango seed, eleutherococcus senticosus root, astragalus root, green tea leaf, gymnema leaf, coleus forskohlii root, capsicum annuum fruit, grapefruit fruit, panax ginseng aerial, raspberry ketones, L-glutamine, L-tyrosine, L-arginine, beta-alanine, monoammonium glycyrrhizinate, GABA, L-ornithine HCL, L-tryptophan and L-carnitine. Plus glycerin, water, organic lemon extract, stevia, xylitol, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, citric acid and natural flavors.

<b>0.7 micrograms</b> per 1 ml serving, which the label correctly prints as 2% of the Daily Value — the FDA figure is 35 mcg and the arithmetic checks out. What the figure means is the harder part. The NIH says most multivitamins carry 35 to 120 mcg of chromium, that chromium supplements commonly provide 200 to 500 mcg and sometimes up to 1,000, and that trials of chromium and glucose used 1.28 to 1,000 mcg daily. This is below the smallest of those.

A way of declaring several ingredients under one total weight instead of individually. 21 CFR 101.36(c) permits it: the blend's total must be printed and its contents listed in descending order of predominance by weight, and nothing further is required. Here it means one number — 200 mg — covering twenty-two ingredients.

Yes. The total is declared, the contents are in descending order and the dagger points at &ldquo;Daily Value not established&rdquo;. That is what the regulation asks for. Our criticism is not that the label breaks a rule; it is that the rule allows a label to tell you almost nothing, and this one takes the offer twenty-two times over.

It is doing three jobs on one wrap. It marks <i>Blood Sugar Support*</i> on the front, it marks the FDA disclaimer, and it marks the panel footnote <i>*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie Diet</i>. The claim-to-disclaimer link is the one the regulation asks for and it works; the shared symbol is untidy rather than wrong.

Three. <i>Lepidium mevenii</i> should be <i>Lepidium meyenii</i>; <i>Irvingia gabonesis</i> should be <i>Irvingia gabonensis</i>; <i>L-Typtophan</i> should be L-Tryptophan. None changes what is in the bottle. All three are printed on it, so all three are recorded.

<i>Keep away from heat, light, and humidity to preserve freshness</i>, and, further down the same panel, <i>STORE IN A COOL, DRY PLACE</i>. The two agree. Neither gives a temperature, which on a liquid is worth more than it is on a capsule.

<i>Natural</i> has no regulatory definition for a dietary supplement, so the roundel means whatever the reader supplies. The bottle contains chromium picolinate, a manufactured mineral complex, plus sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate and a 97% steviol glycoside isolate. All ordinary, all disclosed, none of them foraged.

Not stated. The label says <i>distributed by</i> Instituto Experience of Lakeland, Florida, which identifies a distributor rather than a manufacturer. No facility is named anywhere.

The label gives <i>Instituto Experience, Lakeland FL, 33804</i> — city, state and ZIP but no street. 21 CFR 101.5 permits the street to be omitted only where the firm is listed in a current city or telephone directory, so the label relies on that exemption. A phone number and an email are printed alongside.

The brief gives lot GLY-26/GO-2503 and a certificate reference GLY-2503-26-GO, and the same document describes both as draft labels rather than lab proof. We have not been shown a certificate of analysis, so we treat those as references rather than evidence.