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MegaFood MegaFlora Probiotic — label audit

All fourteen organisms carry ATCC Special Deposit accessions — the only label in its batch whose designators resolve to a public culture collection rather than a supplier trademark — and eleven of the fourteen return zero PubMed records under both spellings. The label tells you precisely which unstudied organisms you are buying.

Roman Sydorenko, Independent analyst · Last verified 31 July 2026 · Disclosures

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.

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.

"Colony forming units. Potency guaranteed until expiration, when stored as recommended." Two heavy qualifications travel with it. "When stored as recommended" means "Store in refrigerator or freezer to maintain potency. Once open, consume within three months" — so the guarantee is void for any buyer who keeps the bottle in a bathroom cabinet, and a 90-count bottle is a 90-day supply that only just fits inside the three-month post-opening window. And the guarantee appears on the physical label, via the government transcription, and not in the product page text at all.

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.

Every organism on the panel carries a printed strain designator. Whether those designators lead anywhere is a separate question, answered below.

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.

• NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database record — DSLD 287476 (opens in a new tab) captured 31 July 2026 60 capsules, UPC 0 51494 10204 6, on market, entered 2023-06-22 — the current label and the source of the fourteen SD- accessions, the at-expiry guarantee and the 2023 seal list. The live page offers 60-count and 90-count; the federal database carries 30, 60 and 90-count records with the same fourteen-organism panel and the same "20 billion / 14 strains" claim.
• NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database record — DSLD 257018 (opens in a new tab) captured 31 July 2026 30 capsules, UPC 0 51494 10205 3, entered 2021-11-19 — the 2021 label generation, whose seal list carries "NSF Certified Gluten-free" where the 2023 label carries "Tested gluten free". The evidence for the certification downgrade is the brand's own two records.
• NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database record — DSLD 256999 (opens in a new tab) captured 31 July 2026 90 capsules, UPC 0 51494 10228 2, entered 2021-11-19.
• NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database record — DSLD 287478 (opens in a new tab) captured 31 July 2026 MegaFlora Women's Probiotic, UPC 0 51494 10021 9, 60 capsules, on market — the women's comparison panel, which adds LP-115, HN001 and cranberry.
• Dated capture of the brand’s own page — megafood-megaflora-pdp-2026-07-31https://www.megafood.com/products/megaflora-probiotic — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured 31 July 2026 Fetched HTTP 200 direct. Source of the $37.99 price, the stated unit prices, the storage copy and the finding that the Supplement Facts panel exists on the brand's own site only as an image.

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, 3 organism slots carry a strain with a human RCT under the exact designator printed on the label.

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 #

$0.63 a day at the dose the label itself instructs.

Price

$37.99 USD

What that buys

60-capsule bottle (60 servings, 1 capsule per day with a meal and a beverage)

Price checked

31 July 2026 — the source we read it fromhttps://www.megafood.com/products/megaflora-probiotic — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits.

For context, the median verified cost across the frozen founding cohort is $1.52 a day — about $553 a year. The two figures come off one median: 24 priced products give an even count, so the median is the mean of the two middle ones, $1.515 a day. The daily figure is that rounded to the cent; the annual figure is $1.515 × 365 = $ 552.975, rounded to the dollar. Annualising the rounded $1.52 instead gives $ 554.80, which is why the rule is printed rather than left for you to guess at.

That median runs over 24 products, not 27: three of the founding teardowns have no verifiable US price at all, and are excluded rather than estimated. It is not a median over every teardown on this site.

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.

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.

Compared against MegaFlora Women's Probiotic. Diffed 31 July 2026.

What the two panels differ by

• The two organisms in the MegaFood family that carry substantial published human evidence — Lp-115 and HN001 — are in the women's product. Its "Women's Healthy Microbiome" tier adds Lactobacillus plantarum LP-115 and Lactobacillus rhamnosus HN001 on top of the base blend. The unisex product that gets recommended to men contains neither, and eleven of its fourteen organisms have no literature at all. DSLD 287476 versus DSLD 287478
• The women's SKU runs the "Original MegaFlora Blend" of 13 SD- organisms, dropping Bifidobacterium longum SD-5588 from the unisex product's 14. DSLD 287476 versus DSLD 287478
• The women's SKU adds cranberry 400 mg and a 240 mg prebiotic blend (beetroot 80 mg, burdock 80 mg, dandelion 80 mg). The unisex product has no botanicals at all. DSLD 287478

What is identical across the pair

• Neither product discloses per-organism CFU.
• Both are built on the same SD- accession family.

DSLD 287476 versus DSLD 287478, plus a federal line search for a men's SKU — the women’s SKU record (opens in a new tab)

Every finding on this page, with the record behind it #

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.

Non-GMO Project Verified status

The product finder returns 404 on every search parameter tried and the site-wide search returns navigation chrome only. Brand-asserted and unverified.

Certified Vegan (vegan.org) status

vegan.org returns HTTP 403 to automation. Brand-asserted and unverified.

Certified B Corporation status

bcorporation.net returns HTTP 403 to automation. Brand-asserted and unverified.

NSF Certified Gluten-Free (2021 label only) status

nsf.org returns HTTP 403, so current status could not be checked directly — but the brand's own two label generations are the evidence. DSLD 257018 (2021) carries "NSF Certified Gluten-free" in its seal list; DSLD 287476 (2023) carries "Tested gluten free" instead, with no other change to the seal list. A third-party certification was replaced by an unspecified self-test.

"Tested gluten free" and "Tested for 125+ pesticides & herbicides" status

Neither names a laboratory, a standard or a threshold. The pesticide and herbicide screening is a real, explicit quality practice and deserves credit as one; neither statement is a certification.

Four of the five named certifications, at their issuers' registers

nsf.org 403, nongmoproject.org 404 with a navigation-only site search, vegan.org 403, bcorporation.net 403. All four are recorded as brand-asserted and unverified, which is a fact about the registers and must never be read as a finding that the marks are absent. The fifth, Glyphosate Residue Free, was reachable and confirmed.

The total price of the 90-count

The brand states "$0.53/unit" for it but publishes no total on the page as read.

Whether the Certified Vegan seal has gone stale

The 2023 federal record still shows "Certified Vegan / Vegan.org" while the current live page presents the product as vegetarian. If the product moved from vegan to vegetarian, the seal on the label would be stale — and neither state could be confirmed, because vegan.org returns 403. This is recorded as an open question and is deliberately not published anywhere on this page as a finding.

Per-organism CFU and the blend weight

Neither is disclosed. 20 billion is split fourteen ways by an unknown allocation, and no blend mass is given at all.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

Primary product record: https://www.megafood.com/products/megaflora-probiotichttps://www.megafood.com/products/megaflora-probiotic — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits.