One product, one panel, one record.
Nature Made Triple-Action Biotics, 48 ct, Raspberry Lemon (Item HL000823) — label audit
The same brand sells the same strain — Bacillus coagulans Unique IS-2 — at 50 mg and 8 billion CFU in one gummy and at 10 mg and 2 billion CFU in this one, side by side in the same product line, at 84% of the price. Nothing on either page tells a buyer the dose differs by five times.
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 | 2 of 2 organism slots carry a printed strain designator. | 2 / 2 = 1.0000 | 0.2400 |
| Per-organism amount printed | 0.20 | 2 of 2 organism slots have an amount of its own; the rest are inside a blend total. | 2 / 2 = 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 | 2 of 2 checked organism slots resolve 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. | 2 / 2 = 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 | 2 Billion CFU per 2-gummy serving (10 mg Bacillus coagulans Unique IS-2), plus 50 mg Immuno-LP20 postbiotic |
| What that count is measured against | Through expiry |
| Strain designators | All organisms coded |
| Organism slots transcribed here | 2 — the full panel |
| Marketed as | Unisex |
"Formulated to provide at least 2 billion live cells per serving if continuously stored in a cool, dry place at or below 75F (23C) and consumed prior to expiration date." Present on both the label and the product page HTML.
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 | 10 mg, 2 Billion CFU | Human RCT | "Unique IS-2"; "Unique IS2"; "IS2" AND coagulans |
| Lactobacillus plantarum (heat-killed) | L-137 (Immuno-LP20) | 50 mg | Human RCT | "L-137" AND plantarum; "HK L-137"; "heat-killed Lactobacillus plantarum L-137" |
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-HL000823-PK002609-TRIPLE-BIOTIC-GUMMIES-back.pnghttps://www.naturemade.com/products/triple-action-biotics — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured The panel exists only as this image on the brand's CDN. Transcribed directly. Label seals — Gluten Free, Vegetarian, No Artificial Flavors, No Synthetic Dyes. Product of Canada.
- Dated capture of the brand’s own page — naturemade-hl000823-2026-07-31https://www.naturemade.com/products/triple-action-biotics — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured HTTP 200, JSON-LD availability InStock. Price from the page's schema.org block.
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, 2 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
$1.17 a day at the dose the label itself instructs.
- Price
- $27.99 USD
- What that buys
- 48 gummies (24 servings, 2 gummies daily). $25.19 on 10% Subscribe & Save.
- Price checked
- — the source we read it fromhttps://www.naturemade.com/products/triple-action-biotics — 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 on the label panel and no "USP" string in the page HTML — a label and page observation, not a register result. usp.org and quality-supplements.org both return HTTP 403.
"#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.
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 same-strain-one-fifth-the-dose-of-its-sibling-undisclosed
Bacillus coagulans Unique IS-2 at 10 mg and 2 billion CFU here, against 50 mg and 8 billion CFU in the brand's Digestive Probiotics 42 ct — at 84% of that product's daily price. The Triple-Action buyer pays nearly as much for a quarter of the probiotic. What they get instead is 3 g of fibre and 50 mg of postbiotic, which may be a fair trade — but nothing on either page tells them the doses differ, and the two products sit side by side in the same product line.
The record: Brand label images NM-HL000823 and NM-3026, both transcribed 2026-07-31
Finding 2 triple-action-is-a-marketing-construct-not-a-validated-category
Prebiotic plus probiotic plus postbiotic is three ingredient classes in one gummy. No evidence is offered that the combination outperforms its parts, and there is no trial of the finished formula.
The record: Searched, none found
Finding 3 most-expensive-cfu-in-its-batch
$0.58 per billion CFU per day, about 47 times the NOW SKU audited alongside it. Worth stating with its counterweight — both of this product's agents are designated, both have human trial literature on the claimed endpoints, and the buyer knows exactly how much of each they are getting, which is more than the cheap-per-CFU products can say.
The record: $27.99 over 24 servings at 2 billion CFU per serving
Finding 4 three-grams-of-inulin-with-the-brands-own-gas-warning
Same fermentable-fibre caveat as its sibling, and the label carries the same warning — "if gas, bloating, or stomach upset occurs, reduce daily serving".
The record: Suggested Use, verbatim from the brand's label image
Finding 5 no-government-label-record
No DSLD record exists for this SKU, verified on two query-path spellings 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 on the label panel and no "USP" string in the page HTML — a label and page observation, not a register result. usp.org and quality-supplements.org both return HTTP 403.
- "#1 Pharmacist Recommended Vitamin & Supplement Brand" status
- A survey claim, not a certification.
- Whether the 50 mg label dose of heat-killed L. plantarum L-137 matches the trial dose
- No dose comparison was performed against the four cited trials. This is the single highest-value follow-up on this SKU — if the doses match it is among the best-substantiated ingredients in the project, and if they do not it is fairy dust. Right now it is neither; it is unchecked, and it must not be published either way.
- 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 — "Triple-Action Biotics" and "Triple Action Biotics" — plus a 597-record sweep of DSLD under brandName "Nature Made".
- USP status
- USP's register returns HTTP 403.
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.
Both active agents on this label are named to strain, which is rare, and one of them has better evidence than most things in this category: heat-killed Lactobacillus plantarum L-137, sold as Immuno-LP20, carries four human trials on the exact designator, including a 2006 J Nutr randomised trial on acquired immunity — matching the immune claim the product makes. What has not been checked is whether the 50 mg on this label is the dose those trials used. Until someone pulls the full texts, that ingredient is neither substantiated nor fairy dust; it is unchecked, and this page says so rather than picking a side.
The clear finding is a dose comparison inside Nature Made’s own catalogue. This gummy contains Bacillus coagulans Unique IS-2 at 10 mg and 2 billion CFU. The brand’s Digestive Probiotics 42-count gummy contains the same strain at 50 mg and 8 billion CFU. This one costs 84% as much per day. The buyer gets a quarter of the probiotic and pays nearly the same, and nothing on either product page discloses that the doses differ — while the two sit side by side in the same product line.
“Triple-Action” itself is a marketing construct rather than a validated category: three ingredient classes in one gummy, no evidence offered that the combination beats its parts, and no trial of the finished product. On the plus side, the CFU basis is stated at expiry on both the label and the page, and unlike its wheat-containing sibling this one is gluten free and vegetarian.