One product, one panel, one record.
Equate (Walmart) Daily Probiotic 60 Billion, 30 Count, Vegetarian Capsules, Unisex — label audit
A 60-billion-cell, ten-organism product sold at $0.83 a day publishes its Supplement Facts in exactly one image, 250 × 250 pixels native. A shopper cannot read the panel before buying and neither can a machine — and this page cannot print the species list either, because it could not be read cleanly enough to publish.
This page is an audit of a label. It records what this product’s panel discloses, what of that could be checked against a primary record, and what could not. The score below ranks this product on that disclosure and on nothing else.
The record this page rests on
- NIH label record
- No NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database record is on file for this product in this teardown.
- Label read on
- The most recent dated artefact behind this page. Labels change; this is how old our reading of it is.
- Cohort
- Addendum — outside the founding denominators Torn down 2026-07-31, after the founding cohort of 27 was frozen. It sits outside every D27 denominator the site publishes.
- How deep this went
- Full forensic teardown Panel transcribed, every strain designator queried, every certification chased to its issuer’s own register, and the literature behind each marketing claim opened and read.
- What did not survive verification
- Part of this page was refuted or could not be reproduced The strain list on this page is blank because it could not be read, not because the product has no organisms. The Supplement Facts exists in exactly one image at 250 × 250 pixels; ten organism lines are present and the line count is certain, but the species names resolve only to word-shape and are not published. The CFU-basis footnote is a moderate-confidence read of the same image, recorded as a basis and never quoted as a sentence. There is no DSLD record, no Internet Archive snapshot and no third-party UPC record to corroborate any of it. Nothing on this page derived from that image should be quoted as a transcription, and no per-product denominator over the strain list is printed anywhere on it.
The Label Verifiability Score for this product
No score and no rank
No Label Verifiability Score is published for this product, and none is estimated. A score must rest on at least 50% of the rubric by weight; this record answers 22%, so a number here would present an average of one or two components as a summary of five.
The product stays in the audit and stays on this site. It is listed, unranked, on the label audit, and it is absent from the ranking rather than placed at the bottom of it: an unanswered question is not a bad answer, and ranking it as though it were would be a number about our reach dressed up as a fact about the product.
| Component | Weight | What was counted, and where | Fraction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strain identity printed on the panel | 0.24 | No organism slot has been transcribed from this panel, so there is nothing to count. | Not answered |
| Per-organism amount printed | 0.20 | No organism slot has been transcribed from this panel, so there is nothing to count. | Not answered |
| What the CFU count is measured against | 0.22 | Potency basis "through-expiry": CFU figure printed yes, single basis stated yes, basis reaches expiry yes — 3 of 3. | 3 / 3 = 1.0000 |
| Printed designators that lead to a human trial | 0.20 | No organism slot has been transcribed from this panel, so there is nothing to count. | Not answered |
| Certification confirmed at the issuer’s own register | 0.14 | Every certification on this record is brand-asserted with the register unreachable, or not yet queried. An unreachable register is a fact about the verification infrastructure, not about this brand, so it may not move its position. | Not answered |
This record answers 22% of the rubric by weight, below the 50% floor a published score requires. Scoring it would present an average of one or two components as a summary of five. Listed, unranked, and the components it did answer are shown above.
The ranking of the 154 products that can be scored is on the home page, with what the score measures and what it does not.
What this label discloses
Everything in this table is what the product itself states — on the printed panel, on the brand’s own page, or in the label record the manufacturer filed. Nothing in it is checked yet; checking is the next section.
| Disclosure | As recorded |
|---|---|
| CFU as printed | 60 Billion Live Cells** (Proprietary Probiotic Blend, 122 mg) |
| What that count is measured against | Through expiry |
| Strain designators | None — species only |
| Organism slots transcribed here | 0 — the panel is not transcribed |
| Marketed as | Unisex |
Deliberately not quoted. The `**` marker is on the panel and the footnote is present on the carton, but the only image Walmart publishes is 250 × 250 pixels, and at that resolution the footnote resolves by word-shape rather than by letter. What it matched, at moderate confidence, is the same through-expiry boilerplate confirmed at full resolution on the up&up carton in the same batch and in NIH's transcription of the predecessor Equate record DSLD 178595 — which suggests a shared contract manufacturer. The teardown recorded the basis as through expiry with the legibility caveat attached and refused to publish the sentence verbatim. This page does the same: the basis is recorded, the wording is not quoted, and the caveat travels with both.
The panel’s own words on potency, verbatim.
The panel guarantees the count through the expiration or best-by date. This is the only basis that is falsifiable by a reader holding the bottle.
The panel names species only, with no strain designator anywhere. A species name is not a claim: the trials in this field are of strains, and a species can contain thousands.
What of that is verifiable
A disclosure is verifiable when a reader can open a record that neither we nor the brand controls and see the same thing. Below is every dated artefact this page rests on. What is absent from this list is not verified, however reasonable it sounds.
- Photograph of the printed panel — walmart-5265483701-back-panel-250pxhttps://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-Daily-Probiotic-60-Billon-30-Count-Vegetarian-Capsules-Unisex/5265483701 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured The only Supplement Facts surface that exists for this SKU, at 250 × 250 pixels native. What is legible at high confidence after upscaling is the structure: "Serving Size 1 Capsule; Proprietary Probiotic Blend 122 mg (60 Billion Live Cells**), ten organism lines; Prebiotic Blend 150 mg — Organic Jerusalem Artichoke Root 50 mg, Organic Acacia Senegal 50 mg, Organic Chicory Root 50 mg; †Daily Value (DV) not established." A third footnote covers storage — best at 72 °F (22 °C) or below, refrigeration not required but may extend shelf life. The ten species names are not legible with publishable confidence and are not transcribed on this page.
- Dated capture of the brand’s own page — walmart-5265483701-2026-07-31https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-Daily-Probiotic-60-Billon-30-Count-Vegetarian-Capsules-Unisex/5265483701 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured Fetched with redirects followed and a desktop user agent; Walmart returns HTTP 307 on a first request and rate-limits after about two rapid requests, so a pause was needed to get the full response. Source of the price ($24.97, unit price string "83.2 ¢/count"), the "Unisex" positioning that appears in the title, the URL slug and its own longDescription bullet, the other-ingredients string, the null activeIngredients field, and the "Compare to Physician's Choice® 60 Billion" claim in the product title.
How many of its strains have a human trial for what it is sold for
Across the frozen founding cohort, 0 of 294 organism slots (0.0%) carry an organism with a human randomised controlled trial for any male-specific outcome. Not for this product — for all 27 of the founding teardowns, taken together. That is the number to hold against any men’s probiotic, including this one.
Two further founding-cohort figures for context: only 43 of 294 organism slots carry a strain with any human RCT at all under the exact code printed on the label, and only 2 of 27 products have a published human trial of the finished formula — the thing actually in the bottle. All three figures divide by the frozen cohort of 27 teardowns and 294 organism slots, never by every teardown on this site.
For this product specifically, 0 organism slots carry a strain with a human RCT under the exact designator printed on the label. That count was made against a panel this record has not fully transcribed, so treat it as provisional.
A word on what a designator has to clear before it counts here. The organism must be named with the exact strain code that appears in the trial, the trial must be in humans, and the code must return that trial when a reader searches it. A species name does not qualify: the trials in this field are of strains, and a species contains thousands of them.
What it costs per day
$0.83 a day at the dose the label itself instructs.
- Price
- $24.97 USD
- What that buys
- 30 vegetarian capsules, 1 capsule daily, 30 servings. Walmart's own unit price string for this item is "83.2 ¢/count", which matches $24.97 ÷ 30.
- Price checked
- — the source we read it fromhttps://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-Daily-Probiotic-60-Billon-30-Count-Vegetarian-Capsules-Unisex/5265483701 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits.
What certification it holds, checked at the issuer’s own register
A badge on a bottle is a claim like any other. Every row below was checked — or not checked — at the certifier’s own public register, never at the badge. Across the frozen founding cohort, 2 of 27 products hold a certification we could confirm at the issuer — a founding-cohort figure, not a count over every teardown on this site.
| Programme | Status at the issuer | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Any third-party certification | Not checked | 31 July 2026 |
Any third-party certification
We have not queried this register for this product. It does not mean the product holds nothing.
None is claimed, so there is no issuer register to query. No NSF, USP, Informed Choice, Non-GMO Project or cGMP mark appears on the page or in any legible label material. Two things on the carton are certification-shaped and are not certifications: the trademark disclaimer "This product is not manufactured or distributed by PHYSICIAN'S CHOICE JBT, LLC, owner of the registered trademark PHYSICIAN'S CHOICE®", which is a legal notice; and "CSP ACTIV-POLYMER™ … a trademark of Aptar CSP Technologies, Inc.", which is a licence for the desiccant-polymer bottle liner — a packaging technology, not a product-quality programme. Nothing here is recorded as verified, and nothing is recorded as refused. An absence of claim is more honest than an unverifiable badge.
How it differs from the same brand’s women’s version
Across the fourteen same-brand men’s-versus-women’s label diffs run inside the frozen founding cohort, zero men’s or default formulas contain a probiotic strain, identified by designator, that was selected on male-specific evidence. In eight of the fourteen the sex-specific differentiator is a botanical or a mineral, and in five of the fourteen the women’s SKU is better-specified, cheaper, or both — “better-specified” meaning the panel that discloses more, never the panel with more in it. The rule behind each of those counts, and all fourteen pairs classified against it , are published in full. Diffs run on teardowns added since sit outside this fourteen, and outside the sentence above.
Every finding on this page, with the record behind it
Finding 1 the-supplement-facts-exists-only-as-a-250-pixel-jpeg
Walmart publishes two images for this SKU: a front silo and one back-panel shot. The back-panel shot is the only place the Supplement Facts exists, and its native resolution is 250 × 250 pixels — confirmed by requesting it with no size parameters and then with odnHeight=2000&odnWidth=2000, which returns the same 250-pixel source upscaled. A consumer cannot read the ingredient panel of this product before buying it, and neither can a machine. For a 60-billion-cell, ten-organism product at $0.83 a day, that is the single strongest label-transparency finding in its batch.
The record: Walmart item 5265483701, both published image assets fetched at native and at odnHeight=2000&odnWidth=2000, 2026-07-31 — open ithttps://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-Daily-Probiotic-60-Billon-30-Count-Vegetarian-Capsules-Unisex/5265483701 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits.
Finding 2 no-independent-record-of-this-label-exists
No DSLD record (UPC double-queried, 0 hits both formats). No Internet Archive snapshot (CDX returned an empty set; the availability API returned 429 all session). No third-party UPC record (upcitemdb total 0). The 250-pixel JPEG is not merely the best available label surface — it is the only one that exists anywhere a reader can reach.
The record: DSLD q=194346112319 and the spaced-digit variant; web.archive.org/cdx for item 5265483701; upcitemdb.com UPC 194346112319 — all 2026-07-31
Finding 3 sixty-billion-cells-across-ten-organisms-in-one-proprietary-blend
The entire 60 billion is a single line item — "Proprietary Probiotic Blend 122 mg" — with no per-organism cell count for any of the ten. Whatever the ten organisms are, none of them can be checked against the dose any trial used.
The record: Supplement Facts panel structure read from the 250 px back-panel image after LANCZOS upscaling, 2026-07-31; Walmart structured activeIngredients field is null
Finding 4 zero-strain-designators-on-a-ten-organism-panel
No ATCC, DSM, CNCM, NCIMB or CECT designator appears anywhere — not on the panel, not in the retail copy, not in Walmart's structured data. A species name is not a tested agent, so the answer to "how many of these organisms have a human trial behind them" is 0 of 10, and it is structurally unanswerable rather than merely negative.
The record: Panel image and Walmart __NEXT_DATA__ for item 5265483701, both 2026-07-31; anchor McFarland LV et al., Front Med 2018;5:124, PMID 29868585, 228 trials — efficacy is strain-specific and disease-specific
Finding 5 compare-to-physicians-choice-rests-on-a-panel-nobody-can-read
Walmart's own product title ends "Compare to Physician's Choice® 60 Billion Probiotic active ingredients". The comparison invites a like-for-like inference about active ingredients that the buyer has no way to check, because the active ingredients are printed only in a 250-pixel image. The reference product's own panel is also a proprietary blend without designators, so even a perfect clone would inherit the defect — but a buyer cannot establish that it is a clone.
The record: Walmart product title and longDescription for item 5265483701, verbatim, 2026-07-31, against the 250 px panel image
Finding 6 walmarts-structured-active-ingredients-field-is-null
The one machine-readable field that would carry the formula is empty. Walmart publishes the other-ingredients string as structured data — Vegetable Capsule (Hypromellose, Gellan Gum), Rice Flour, Rice Concentrate, Rice Hulls Extract, Gum Arabic, Sunflower Oil — and publishes the probiotic itself nowhere except inside the unreadable image.
The record: Walmart __NEXT_DATA__ payload for item 5265483701, activeIngredients field, 2026-07-31
Finding 7 the-price-moved-twenty-nine-percent-between-two-fetches
$34.99 at the brief's fetch, $24.97 days later at this pass — $1.17 a day against $0.83 a day for the same bottle. Both are recorded. Any cost-per-day for this SKU is a snapshot, not a property of the product.
The record: Research brief price against Walmart live price for item 5265483701, read 2026-07-31
Finding 8 walmarts-own-title-misspells-billion
"Equate Daily Probiotic 60 Billon" — the misspelling appears twice in the page JSON, in the longDescription bullet list, and in the canonical URL slug. Cosmetic on its own; a quality-control signal on a listing whose Supplement Facts is a 250-pixel image.
The record: Walmart item 5265483701 product title, longDescription and URL slug, 2026-07-31
What we could not verify
Every gap below is published rather than deleted. Most are derived automatically from the empty fields in this page’s own record, so a gap cannot be hidden by leaving a box blank.
- The full Supplement Facts panel
- The panel has not been transcribed into this record, so no organism-level count on this page is a count of the label.
- Any third-party certification status
- None is claimed, so there is no issuer register to query. No NSF, USP, Informed Choice, Non-GMO Project or cGMP mark appears on the page or in any legible label material. Two things on the carton are certification-shaped and are not certifications: the trademark disclaimer "This product is not manufactured or distributed by PHYSICIAN'S CHOICE JBT, LLC, owner of the registered trademark PHYSICIAN'S CHOICE®", which is a legal notice; and "CSP ACTIV-POLYMER™ … a trademark of Aptar CSP Technologies, Inc.", which is a licence for the desiccant-polymer bottle liner — a packaging technology, not a product-quality programme. Nothing here is recorded as verified, and nothing is recorded as refused. An absence of claim is more honest than an unverifiable badge.
- A men’s-versus-women’s label diff
- The same brand’s women’s SKU has not been compared against this panel.
- The ten species names printed on the Supplement Facts panel
- The only image Walmart publishes for this SKU is 250 × 250 pixels native. Requesting it with odnHeight=2000&odnWidth=2000 returns an upscaled 250-pixel source, not a larger original; the page carries one other asset, a front silo. After LANCZOS upscaling the panel structure is certain — ten organism lines inside a single Proprietary Probiotic Blend of 122 mg, plus a 150 mg Prebiotic Blend itemised as Organic Jerusalem Artichoke Root 50 mg, Organic Acacia Senegal 50 mg and Organic Chicory Root 50 mg — but the individual species names resolve only to word-shape. The teardown recorded a best reading and marked it unverified with an instruction not to publish it. It is not published here. Ten organisms are in this capsule and this page will not tell you which ten, because nobody could read them.
- The exact wording of the CFU-basis footnote
- Same image, same 250 pixels. The footnote is present and its shape matches the through-expiry boilerplate confirmed at full resolution elsewhere in the batch, at moderate confidence. Recorded as a basis, not quoted as a sentence.
- Whether the panel uses pre-2020 nomenclature
- The teardown recorded that it does — that the organism names predate or ignore the Lactobacillus genus split of Zheng et al. 2020 (PMID 32293557). That reading comes from the same illegible image as the species list, so it is held here as unverified rather than published as a finding.
- Any government label record for this UPC
- None exists. UPC 194346112319 was double-queried against NIH DSLD in two formats per the project's absence rule: q=<digits> returned 0 hits, and the spaced format DSLD itself stores returned only numeric-token noise (Somaplex Molybdenum, Vitamin Shoppe Omega 3-6-9). DSLD holds other Equate probiotic records under different UPCs; it holds none for this one.
- Any archived copy of the listing, or any third-party UPC record
- web.archive.org's CDX index returned an empty result set for this item ID and the availability API returned HTTP 429 throughout the session. upcitemdb.com returned HTTP 200 with total 0 for UPC 194346112319. There is no independent record of this label anywhere that was reachable.
- The 16-strain list on the Equate women's SKU
- Its panel was not retrieved at readable resolution this pass. Walmart's structured other-ingredients field for item 820617264 reads "Probiotic Blend, Acacia Gum, Potato Starch, Hypromellose, Magnesium Stearate, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Gellan Gum", which names no organism. No women's-side compositional claim is made on this page.
How to check every line of this page yourself
Nothing on this page requires trusting us. Every claim above resolves to a record you can open:
- Open the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database record linked at the top of this page. It is the label the manufacturer filed, not our transcription of it.
- Compare the CFU line and the suggested-use line against the disclosure table above. If they disagree with us, we are wrong and we want to know.
- Take any strain designator from the panel and run the query printed beside it. The query is published precisely so you can get a different answer than we did.
- Divide the price by the number of days the label’s own dose instructions make the container last. That arithmetic is the whole of the cost-per-day row.
- Search the certifier’s own register for this product, not for the brand. A company can participate in a programme without this product being on its list.
This is the page where the method runs out of road, and that is the finding.
Walmart publishes two images for this bottle. One is a front silo. The other is a back-panel shot, and it
is the only place on the internet where this product’s Supplement Facts exists. Its native resolution is
250 × 250 pixels. Ask Walmart’s CDN for a bigger one — odnHeight=2000&odnWidth=2000 — and it returns
the same 250-pixel source, upscaled. There is no DSLD record. The Internet Archive has no snapshot.
upcitemdb has no entry. For a 60-billion-cell, ten-organism product at $0.83 a day, the ingredient
panel is a thumbnail, and there is no second copy anywhere.
So this page does something it does elsewhere only under protest: it leaves the strain list empty. Ten organism lines are on that panel and the line count is certain. The names are not. They resolve to word-shape and no further, and a best guess dressed up as a transcription is exactly the failure this site exists to avoid. Ten organisms are in this capsule. This page will not tell you which ten, because nobody could read them — and neither can you, standing in the aisle with your phone.
What is legible is enough to place the product. The whole 60 billion sits inside a single line — Proprietary Probiotic Blend, 122 mg — with no per-organism count for any of the ten. No ATCC, DSM, CNCM, NCIMB or CECT designator appears anywhere on the panel, in the retail copy, or in Walmart’s structured data. Whatever those ten organisms are, not one of them can be tied to a trial, because a species name is not a tested agent. The prebiotic side is the transparent half: 150 mg split evenly across organic Jerusalem artichoke root, acacia senegal and chicory root, 50 mg each.
And the front of the box invites a comparison the buyer cannot run. The product title ends “Compare to Physician’s Choice® 60 Billion Probiotic active ingredients” — a claim specifically about active ingredients, made about a panel published at 250 pixels. The reference product’s own panel is also a proprietary blend without designators, so even a flawless clone would inherit that defect. The point is that no buyer can establish it is a clone.
Two smaller things worth one line each. Walmart’s own structured activeIngredients field for this item
is null — the other-ingredients string is machine-readable and the probiotic is not. And the listing
misspells its own headline: “60 Billon”, twice in the page JSON and in the URL slug.
The price moved 29% between two fetches — $34.99 in the brief, $24.97 at this pass. Both are on the record. On the men’s question there is nothing to weigh: the word “Unisex” is in the product title, in the URL slug and in its own bullet. Walmart sells an Equate women’s probiotic — 40 billion, 16 strains, with a stated vaginal-health rationale — and no Equate men’s probiotic at all. The men’s slot in this brand line is filled by a product that says Unisex on the front.