Gelagen Supplement Facts

The rule that governs a Supplement Facts panel fixes the order of the fields, which is why every panel on every shelf looks the same.

21 CFR 101.36 sets the box out in one order and leaves a designer no room to rearrange it. The heading, then the serving size, then the number of servings the container holds. Then one line for each nutrient, carrying its name, its quantitative amount by weight in that serving, and the percentage of the Daily Value that amount represents. Below a heavy line come any ingredients with no Daily Value, and outside the box comes the other-ingredients list.

A panel is a floor rather than a ceiling. The rule obliges a label to print an amount by weight for every nutrient it declares, so thirteen rows carrying thirteen figures is a label doing what is asked of it. The shape that keeps numbers out of sight is a proprietary blend, where one total covers several ingredients and none of them can be read on its own. There is no blend on this jar.

The fixed order has one further use, and it is the reason a panel is worth learning once. Two products from two manufacturers print the same fields in the same sequence, so comparing them is a matter of reading down two boxes rather than decoding two designs. Serving size against serving size first, then the amount column against the amount column. Anything a brand wants to say about itself has to happen outside the box, which is exactly where the front of a jar is.

The serving line is the one to read first: the amounts on this panel are per serving of two gummies, not per gummy.

So every figure on the panel describes a day. Two gummies is one serving, one serving is the day's dose, and 5,000 mcg of biotin, 442 mcg DFE of folate and 2.7 mg of zinc are what a full day of the product supplies. Halving any of them to describe a single gummy produces a figure that appears nowhere on the jar.

Three rows use a unit that is not a plain weight, and each unit is there for a reason. Folate is printed in mcg DFE, dietary folate equivalents, because folic acid from a supplement is absorbed better than folate from food and the unit lets the two be added together. Vitamin A is measured in retinol activity equivalents on the same principle. Vitamin D is printed in micrograms where older labels used International Units, and the 10 mcg here is 400 IU in that older unit.

The percent column is arithmetic, not a judgement. It says what share of one adult reference an amount represents, and that reference is the same whoever reads it: it knows nothing about your diet, your age or whether you were short of anything to begin with. Biotin's own reference is 30 mcg, which is why that row's percentage runs into the thousands while the vitamin C row sits near twenty-two.

Inositol has no Daily Value to print a percentage against, and a footnote is what the rule gives a panel to carry instead. Below the box sit the other ingredients in descending order of weight, and the allergen statement with them. Those two lines are the ones to check if you avoid gelatin or an added colour, because the thirteen rows above them say nothing about either.

Sixty at two a day is thirty days a bottle, which is why two bottles are sold as a sixty-day supply. The panel's amounts are per serving of two, so none of them halves into a per-gummy figure.

The figure is printed on the bottle. The front of the jar reads “60 GUMMIES” in large type above the product name, and both of the seller's listing banners repeat it. That makes it a label fact rather than an inference, and it is the one number on this website that two independent sources agree on: the jar says sixty, and the seller sells two jars as a sixty-day supply. Two a day is the only serving that makes both of those true at once.

Sixty gummies is thirty servings, one serving is one day, and a jar is therefore a calendar month. The seller's own supply lengths follow the same line: ninety days for three jars, a hundred and eighty for six. So does the per-day cost on the pricing page, which is one jar's price divided by the 30 days it holds and is named as arithmetic wherever it appears.

What the count will not do is split. The panel describes a serving of two gummies, no line on the label divides that serving, and there is no per-gummy amount printed to scale up or down from. One gummy is half a serving of all thirteen nutrients; four is two servings of them, including two servings of the vitamin A.

Thirty days a jar also settles when to reorder. A single jar runs out at the point a new habit is at its most fragile, which is the practical reason the smallest order the seller offers is two of them.

The panel on the bottle in your hand is the document that settles any disagreement with this website, and lot GEL-26/GE-6362 on the base is what ties it to your order.

1. The serving line. It should read two gummies. Every other figure on the panel is counted on it, and a different serving would change all thirteen of them.
2. The biotin row. 5,000 mcg is what the rest of the label is built around, and it is the quickest way to tell this jar apart from a general multivitamin standing beside it.
3. The lot code and the date. GEL-26/GE-6362 is the batch this desk holds paperwork for. A different code is a different batch, and the batch page prints the certificate reference held here.
4. The other-ingredients line. The gelling agent, the sweetener, the colour and the flavour are all there, and none of them appears in the thirteen rows above it.

If any of the four disagrees with this page, the jar is right. A correction goes to the address on the contact page with the lot code attached, and the review date at the foot of the page moves when one is made.

Two other things are worth doing on the day the parcel lands. Write the purchase date on the lid, because the sixty-day window is counted from the day you paid rather than the day it arrived. And check the jars against the pack you ordered before the box goes out, since the order ID on the confirmation email is what order support works from.

The best-before date is the last thing to look at, and the one people look at least. A six-jar order is a hundred and eighty days of gummies, so the date on the final jar is the one that matters rather than the date on the one you open first. If it falls short of the supply you bought, that is a question for order support on the day the box arrives rather than in month five.