Gelagen Ingredients

The Gelagen panel carries 13 nutrients and an amount against every one of them, which is a fuller label than most of this shelf manages.

One serving is two gummies and one serving is a day, so the middle column holds a day of each nutrient rather than a gummy of it.

The order is not the seller's choice. The rule behind a Supplement Facts panel puts the vitamins first, the minerals after them and anything with no Daily Value at the bottom, which is why the list runs vitamin A, C, D and E, then the B group, then iodine and zinc, and leaves inositol until last.

Six of the thirteen name a chemical form, and the form is the part worth reading. Retinyl acetate is preformed vitamin A, the kind the body uses without converting it first. Cholecalciferol is the D3 form. The d- in d-alpha tocopheryl acetate marks natural-source vitamin E: a milligram of it counts as a milligram of vitamin E, where two milligrams of the synthetic form are needed for the same milligram. Methylcobalamin, pyridoxine hydrochloride and ascorbic acid are the ordinary supplement forms of B12, B6 and vitamin C.

Four of the thirteen sit at or above their reference intakes and the rest sit under, which makes this a biotin product with twelve supporting names rather than a multivitamin.

Biotin is the figure the label is built around. The panel prints 5,000 mcg. The Adequate Intake for an adult is 30 mcg a day and the Daily Value is 30 mcg, so the amount here is about 167 times what anyone is judged to need. No Tolerable Upper Intake Level has been set for biotin, because no human toxicity has been recorded at high intakes. What follows from a figure that size is a laboratory question rather than a toxicity one, and it has a section of its own on the safety page.

Four more land at or just above their references. Folate is 442 mcg DFE against a 400 mcg DFE Daily Value. Vitamin B12 is 6 mcg against 2.4 mcg. Vitamin B6 is 2 mg against a 1.7 mg Daily Value, and pantothenic acid is 5.2 mg against an Adequate Intake of 5 mg, the one amount on this panel that lands on its reference almost exactly.

Six are a fraction of a day, which is the shape of a top-up. Vitamin A is 630 mcg, about seventy per cent of a 900 mcg Daily Value. Vitamin D is 10 mcg, half of the 20 mcg Daily Value and 400 IU in the older unit. Vitamin E is 7.4 mg against 15 mg. Vitamin C is 20 mg against a 90 mg Daily Value, under a quarter of it. Iodine is 42 mcg against 150 mcg, and zinc is 2.7 mg against an 11 mg Daily Value.

Two are outliers and each is worth a single sentence. Choline is printed as 0.04 mg, which is 0.007% of the 550 mg Daily Value. Inositol is 40 mcg and has no Daily Value at all, so there is no published reference for a panel to set it against.

Read together, the thirteen sort themselves into one very large figure, four that cover a day, six that cover part of one and two that are token. That is a legible label. It tells you what a day of this product supplies and leaves you to decide whether you want it, which is more than a blend total can do.

The Gelagen panel prints thirteen vitamins and minerals. Collagen, keratin and silica are not among them, and the name is not a claim about the contents.

Collagen is the one people ask about. The collagen research most buyers have in mind pooled nineteen randomised, double-blind trials of hydrolysed collagen peptides in around 1,125 people over about ninety days, and hydrolysed collagen is not an ingredient on this panel. Those trials describe collagen taken as collagen, which is a different proposition from a thirteen-nutrient gummy.

What the panel does carry on that subject is vitamin C. Vitamin C is required for the biosynthesis of collagen, and a shortage of it impairs that synthesis and weakens connective tissue. That is a statement about the body rather than about a jar: the enzymes that assemble collagen need vitamin C to work, and the 20 mg here is a contribution to the supply they draw on.

Keratin and silica are the other two names buyers look for on this shelf, and neither appears. Nor does any botanical, any amino acid or any proprietary blend. The label is thirteen vitamins and minerals, individually named and individually numbered, and that is the whole of it. A short panel with every figure printed is a different proposition from a long one with a single total covering several ingredients, and this is the first kind.

A gummy carries more than its nutrients: a sugar or sugar alcohol, a gelling agent, a colour and a flavour are all declared on the other-ingredients line of the physical bottle.

The same rule that shapes the panel puts that line below the box rather than inside it, in descending order of weight, with the allergen statement alongside. It is the part of a label no nutrient table can stand in for, and it is where the gelling agent, the sweetener, the colour and the flavour are named.

The seller's product pages show the front of the jar rather than the back, so that line is one to read on the bottle when it arrives. It takes half a minute, and it is the only place a buyer who avoids gelatin, a particular colour or added sugar will find the answer.

The front of the jar carries words of its own. Under the product name it reads Advanced Gummies for Skin Health and Dietary Supplement, with three short lines beside icons: Youthful Glow, Deep Hydration and Smooth Appearance. Above them the artwork prints “Korean Technology” over a South Korean flag.

That last one is label art and nothing more. It names no plant, no process and no standard, and nothing in the seller's material or the paperwork behind this order says where the product is made. It belongs with the colour of the lid rather than with the thirteen amounts above it, and no page on this website treats it as evidence of anything.