One product, one panel, one record.
Nature Made Digestive Probiotics 8 Billion CFU per 2 Gummies, 42 ct (Item 3026) — label audit
A digestive-health gummy that declares CONTAINS: Wheat, with wheat starch as its fourth ingredient — while the same brand's two sibling probiotic gummies in this same audit are labelled Gluten Free. The person harmed is precisely the coeliac or gluten-sensitive buyer reaching for a gut supplement, and the siblings prove it is avoidable.
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 Audited 2026-07-31, outside the frozen founding cohort of 27 and outside every D27 denominator.
- How deep this went
- Label audit — the lighter pass What the label says, what basis it gives for its CFU number, whether the strains are coded, whether a government label record exists — checked and published. No full claim inventory was written for this SKU. It is a real result, and it is a shallower one than the teardowns above it, which is why the page says so before you weigh it against them.
The Label Verifiability Score for this product
100.0 out of 100
Rank 1 of the 154 products in this audit the rubric can score. This rank is shared with 18 other products — 19 products sit on 100.0 and are tied. They hold the position jointly; no tiebreaker is applied, because every tiebreaker available here would be a number the rubric deliberately refused to weigh, smuggled back in to make a list look tidier.
The score measures one thing: how much of what you are buying this company tells you, and how much of that survives being checked against a source that is not the company. It does not measure whether the product works — this site holds no efficacy data of its own, and 0 of 294 organism slots in the founding cohort carry a strain with a human randomised trial for any male-specific outcome, so nobody in this category has evidence that would support a ranking by effect.
Computed over 86% of the rubric by weight — the share of the five questions below this record could answer. The remaining question is unanswered, and unanswered is not nought: it leaves the divisor rather than dragging the score down. That share travels with the number and is never dropped — this score over 86% of the weight and the same score over all of it are different claims.
| Component | Weight | What was counted, and where | Fraction | Weight × fraction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strain identity printed on the panel | 0.24 | 1 of 1 organism slot carries a printed strain designator. | 1 / 1 = 1.0000 | 0.2400 |
| Per-organism amount printed | 0.20 | 1 of 1 organism slot has an amount of its own; the rest are inside a blend total. | 1 / 1 = 1.0000 | 0.2000 |
| 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 | 0.2200 |
| Printed designators that lead to a human trial | 0.20 | 1 of 1 checked organism slot resolves to at least one human randomised trial under the designator exactly as printed. This counts whether the identity leads to a trial, never what the trial found. | 1 / 1 = 1.0000 | 0.2000 |
| 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 | — excluded from the divisor, not counted as nought |
0.8600 — the last column added up — divided by 0.86, the weight this record could answer, is 1.0000. Multiplied by 100 and rounded to one decimal, that is the 100.0 above.
See this product’s row in the full ranking, alongside the other 153 scored products, or read what each of the five components asks and how to check it .
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 | 8 Billion CFU per 2-gummy serving (50 mg Bacillus coagulans Unique IS-2) |
| What that count is measured against | Through expiry |
| Strain designators | All organisms coded |
| Organism slots transcribed here | 1 — the full panel |
| Marketed as | Unisex |
"Formulated to provide at least 8 billion live cells per serving if continuously stored in a cool, dry place at or below 75F (23C) and consumed prior to expiration date. Storage and handling conditions can vary and may affect the total amount of cells delivered at time of consumption." The hedge is explicit, and it is on the label rather than buried.
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.
| Organism as printed | Designator as printed | Quantity as printed | What the designator resolves to | The query we ran |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacillus coagulans | Unique IS-2 | 50 mg, 8 Billion CFU | Human RCT | "Unique IS-2"; "Unique IS2"; "IS2" AND coagulans |
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 — NM-3026-PK002688-DIGESTIVE-PROBIOTICS-ULTRA-STRENGTH-GUMMIES-back.jpghttps://www.naturemade.com/products/nature-made-digestive-probiotics-ultra-strength-gummies — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured The panel is not text in the page HTML; it exists only as this image on the brand's CDN. Downloaded and transcribed directly. Made in Australia, packaged and quality tested in the USA.
- Dated capture of the brand’s own page — naturemade-3026-2026-07-31https://www.naturemade.com/products/nature-made-digestive-probiotics-ultra-strength-gummies — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured HTTP 200. Price from the page's own schema.org JSON-LD.
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, 1 organism slot carries 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
$1.39 a day at the dose the label itself instructs.
- Price
- $29.29 USD
- What that buys
- 42 gummies (21 servings, 2 gummies daily). $26.36 on 10% Subscribe & Save.
- Price checked
- — the source we read it fromhttps://www.naturemade.com/products/nature-made-digestive-probiotics-ultra-strength-gummies — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| USP Verified | Register unreachable | 31 July 2026 |
| "#1 Pharmacist Recommended Vitamin & Supplement Brand" | Not checked | not checked |
USP Verified
The certifier’s register could not be queried at all. That is a finding about the verification infrastructure, not about the brand.
No USP mark appears on the label panel, and the string "USP" appears nowhere in the product page HTML. That is a label and page observation, not a register result — usp.org and quality-supplements.org both return HTTP 403 at the Akamai edge, so this product is neither recorded as USP Verified nor as not verified.
"#1 Pharmacist Recommended Vitamin & Supplement Brand"
We have not queried this register for this product. It does not mean the product holds nothing.
A survey claim, not a certification. Footnoted by the brand itself as "Based on a survey of pharmacists who recommend branded vitamins and supplements".
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.
This brand sells no women’s counterpart to this product, so there is no diff to run.
Every finding on this page, with the record behind it
Finding 1 contains-wheat-in-a-digestive-health-product
The label declares CONTAINS: Wheat, and wheat starch is the fourth ingredient. The brand's two sibling probiotic gummies audited alongside it are labelled Gluten Free, which forecloses the reply that this is unavoidable in a gummy format.
The record: Brand label image NM-3026-PK002688-DIGESTIVE-PROBIOTICS-ULTRA-STRENGTH-GUMMIES-back.jpg, transcribed 2026-07-31
Finding 2 carmine-under-a-natural-colors-banner
Colors added including carmine — a cochineal-insect derivative — shipped under the label's own "No Synthetic Dyes, Colors Derived from Natural Sources" seal. Technically accurate and materially misleading to vegetarian and vegan buyers. Carmine also has a documented hypersensitivity literature. Gelatin is also present, so the product cannot be vegetarian; the sibling Triple-Action gummy is.
The record: Other Ingredients, verbatim from the brand's own label image
Finding 3 five-grams-of-added-sugar-per-serving
5 g added sugars, 10% DV, taken daily, in a product bought for gut health.
The record: Supplement Facts panel, brand label image
Finding 4 most-expensive-cfu-among-multi-strain-peers
$0.174 per billion CFU per day, about 14 times the cost per CFU of the NOW SKU audited alongside it. Recorded with the caveat that CFU is a purchasing metric, not a quality metric — this product's single designated strain with real trial literature is worth more than an undesignated large number.
The record: $29.29 over 21 servings at 8 billion CFU per serving
Finding 5 gender-framing-exists-only-in-the-retailer-listing
The brand's product name has no gender wording. "For Women and Men" is a keyword string in the Amazon title. There is no sex-specific ingredient and the brand does not claim one.
The record: naturemade.com product page versus Amazon B07BWNXMV1 title
Finding 6 no-government-label-record
No DSLD record exists for this SKU, verified on two query paths plus a 597-record brand sweep.
The record: DSLD sweep of brandName "Nature Made", 597 records, 2026-07-31 — open it (opens in a new tab)
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.
- USP Verified status
- No USP mark appears on the label panel, and the string "USP" appears nowhere in the product page HTML. That is a label and page observation, not a register result — usp.org and quality-supplements.org both return HTTP 403 at the Akamai edge, so this product is neither recorded as USP Verified nor as not verified.
- "#1 Pharmacist Recommended Vitamin & Supplement Brand" status
- A survey claim, not a certification. Footnoted by the brand itself as "Based on a survey of pharmacists who recommend branded vitamins and supplements".
- Any Amazon price
- The Amazon listing returns a bot-check page, not product HTML.
- Any government label record
- None exists. Verified on two independent query paths plus a 597-record sweep of every DSLD record under brandName "Nature Made" — this SKU and its two gummy siblings appear in none of them.
- USP status
- USP's own register returns HTTP 403. Neither "verified" nor "not verified" may be published.
- The results sections of the three cited trials
- Titles and identity verified only. No effect sizes or directions are published from them.
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.
The finding here takes one line and it is on the label: CONTAINS: Wheat. Wheat starch is the fourth ingredient in a gummy sold for digestive health. Nature Made’s own two sibling probiotic gummies, audited in the same pass, are labelled Gluten Free — so this is a formulation choice, not a constraint of the format, and the buyer it lands on is exactly the person with coeliac disease or gluten sensitivity reaching for a gut supplement.
What is genuinely good here is the strain. Bacillus coagulans Unique IS-2 is named, designated, and carries real human trial literature, and because this is a single-strain product the per-strain CFU is unambiguous by construction — the whole 8 billion is that organism. That is better allocation transparency than the ten-strain blends this category is full of. The CFU basis is at expiry with an honest, explicit storage hedge printed on the label.
Against that: gelatin and carmine, the latter sold under a “colors derived from natural sources” banner, 5 g of added sugar a day at 10% of the daily value, and a price of $1.39 a day. The “for Women and Men” in the title is Amazon’s, not the brand’s — there is no sex-specific ingredient here and Nature Made does not claim one.