SynoGut Supplement Facts: How to Read Your Label

Is there a SynoGut Supplement Facts panel?

No SynoGut Supplement Facts panel was supplied. No back-label photograph and no typed panel came with the material we were given, so this site prints no serving size and no ingredient amounts at all.

It is better to say that at the top than to bury it. Most product pages show a picture of the back label, and a shopper reads the serving line and the weights before anything else. There is no such picture here. What exists is a front label, a sales page naming six ingredients, and the bottle that arrives at your door, which may carry more than any of it.

What would a full Supplement Facts panel show?

A complete panel is a short, strict table. It opens with a serving size, lists each active ingredient with a weight beside it, and closes with the other ingredients printed underneath.

The table below takes each line a shopper would expect, says what that line normally tells you, and gives what the SynoGut material provides instead. Reading it line by line is the clearest way to see how large the gap is.

The first two lines carry the rest. Without a serving size you cannot work out a daily amount, and without weights you cannot compare a capsule with the research behind any single ingredient. That is why our ingredients page writes amount not published beside all six names, and why our how it works page stops short of describing a mechanism.

What does the SynoGut bottle actually print?

The front of the white and green bottle carries the product name, the category wording, 60 capsules and a 30-day supplement line. None of that is a facts panel.

• "SynoGut"
• "Dietary Supplement"
• "Capsules"

Category wording describes how a product is sold. It is not a measured result, and this site never reads it as one. Our benefits page sets out the difference between a sales line and a finding.

The sales page adds a panel of six ingredient names with photographs beside them: psyllium, bentonite clay, black walnut, oat, flaxseed and prune. Six names and six pictures. No weights, no parts, no serving.

What is missing from the published SynoGut information?

Nine things, and they are mostly the ones people ask about first. Here is the full list rather than a polite summary of it.

• Supplement Facts panel (no back-label image or typed panel was supplied)
• Serving size, though the front label says 60 capsules and calls a bottle a 30-day supplement
• Amount of each of the six named ingredients
• Other ingredients and capsule material
• Whether the oat is certified gluten free
• Pack prices (shown at checkout)
• Manufacturer or distributor address
• Verified customer reviews (the source pack's numbers are layout copy)
• Third-party lab results (the lot and CoA references are draft labels, not lab proof)

Two entries there need a word of explanation. The lot reference SYN-26/SY-3292 and the certificate reference SYN-3292-26-SY come from our own listing. They are reference labels, not lab proof, and no certificate of analysis is published for this product. The order desk can match a bottle to an order on +1 (302) 200-3480, and our batch check page explains what that call can and cannot settle.

Do the seals on the page tell you what is in the capsule?

No. Seals describe a factory, a policy or a category, and none of them reports what a capsule contains or how much of it.

A registered facility seal means the plant is registered with the FDA, which every supplement facility has to be. It is not a review of the formula, and no supplement is approved by the FDA before it is sold (FDA). A guarantee seal is a purchase policy. A natural ingredients seal is a marketing description. None of them replaces a panel with weights on it, and the NIH puts the same point plainly in its guide for shoppers (NIH Office of Dietary Supplements).

How should you read your own SynoGut bottle?

Read it before the first capsule, and follow it rather than this page. A printed label travels with the product you received and is the version that governs how you use it.

1. 1

   Turn the bottle over

   Look along the back and side for a panel headed Supplement Facts. If your bottle has one, that panel is the document that counts.

2. 2

   Read the serving line first

   It tells you how many capsules make one serving and how many servings the bottle holds. Neither figure is published anywhere else.

3. 3

   Read the directions next

   Take the wording exactly as printed. Do not use a serving size from a website, including this one.

4. 4

   Photograph both sides

   A clear photo of the front, the panel and the lot line gives you a record before you break the seal.

5. 5

   Call if the bottle differs

   Ring the order desk on +1 (302) 200-3480 with your order ID if what you received does not match what you expected.

Two ingredient details are worth carrying into that reading. Black walnut is a tree nut, so a nut allergy rules the bottle out (FDA), and the material does not say whether the oat is certified gluten free (FDA). Our who it is for page works through both.

Keep the timing in mind while you check. The money-back window runs 60 days from purchase unless the sales page prints a longer one, so reading the label on the day the box arrives leaves you plenty of room to decide. Digestive symptoms that last, that are new, or that come with blood, weight loss or pain belong with a doctor rather than a label.

SynoGut label questions

Sources for this page

1. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dietary Supplements. Source
2. NIH Office of Dietary Supplements. Dietary Supplements: What You Need to Know. Source
3. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Food Allergies. Source
4. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Gluten and Food Labeling. Source