One product, one panel, one record.
OLLY Probiotic Gummy, Tropical Mango, 80 Count (40 servings) — label audit
This is the only product in its batch whose third-party claim could be confirmed at the issuer's own register — an NSF/ANSI 173 contents certification, the one kind that attests to whether the label's declared ingredients are actually in the product — and it also states no CFU basis of any kind.
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
- 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
85.3 out of 100
Rank 27 of the 154 products in this audit the rubric can score. This rank is shared with 1 other product — 2 products sit on 85.3 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 the whole rubric: this record answers all five questions below, so nothing is renormalised away and the divisor is the full 1.00. That share travels with every score on this site and is never dropped — a score over part of the rubric’s 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 "none-stated": CFU figure printed yes, single basis stated no, basis reaches expiry no — 1 of 3. | 1 / 3 = 0.3333 | 0.073333 |
| 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 | 1 claimed certification found on the issuer’s own public register. Read the scope before reading the mark: most certify one narrow property. | 1 / 1 = 1.0000 | 0.1400 |
0.853333 — the last column added up — divided by 1.00, the weight this record could answer, is 0.8533. Multiplied by 100 and rounded to one decimal, that is the 85.3 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 | 1 billion live cultures per 2-gummy serving |
| What that count is measured against | No basis stated |
| Strain designators | All organisms coded |
| Organism slots transcribed here | 1 — the full panel |
| Marketed as | Unisex |
Zero occurrences of "expiration", "at manufacture", "guarantee" or any equivalent across the brand product page and the Amazon listing. The prior-formula DSLD record contains no potency-basis statement either. Storage: "Store in a cool, dry place."
The panel’s own words on potency, verbatim.
A CFU number appears with no temporal basis of any kind. A count with no basis is not a quantity; there is no date at which it is claimed to be true.
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 subtilis | DE111 | 1 billion live cultures per 2 gummies | Human RCT | PubMed E-utilities, exact designator tightened with a genus/species conjunct, randomized controlled trial[pt] |
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.
- Dated capture of the brand’s own page — olly-probiotic-tropical-mango-2026-07-31https://www.olly.com/products/probiotic-tropical-mango — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured Shopify. UPC cross-check passed — Amazon UPC 840160202483 matches the Shopify barcode on the "40 Servings" variant, which is 2 gummies per serving and therefore 80 gummies. The brand's other variant, "25 Servings" (50 gummies), carries barcode 858158005138. Source for the price ($19.99), the organism and dose ("one billion live cultures of Bacillus subtilis DE111"), the NSF claim wording and the B Corp seal.
- Dated capture of the brand’s own page — amazon-B0CGVWYM26-2026-07-31https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGVWYM26 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured Fetched directly, HTTP 200, no CAPTCHA. Source for the UPC used in the identity check and for the ingredient block, which independently confirms the current organism ("Probiotic: Bacillus Subtilis DE111") and lists gelatin and added sugars. Price not usable — EUR carousel figures returned rather than the buy-box.
- NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database record — DSLD 273631 (opens in a new tab) captured On-market, and cited here only for what it legitimately shows: the PREVIOUS formulation. It carries UPC 8 58158 00513 8, the 50-gummy pack rather than this 80-count SKU, and records the organism as Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 rather than the Bacillus subtilis DE111 in the current product. Source for the per-serving sugar and calorie figures. Sibling records 230254 and 201721 are off-market and carry the same 50-count UPC.
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
$0.50 a day at the dose the label itself instructs.
- Price
- $19.99 USD
- What that buys
- 80 gummies = 40 servings, 2 gummies daily. Brand Shopify variant, "40 Servings". The sibling "25 Servings" pack (50 gummies) lists at $13.99, which works out to $0.56 a day.
- Price checked
- — the source we read it fromhttps://www.olly.com/products/probiotic-tropical-mango — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| NSF/ANSI 173 Dietary Supplements (contents certification) | Confirmed at issuer | 31 July 2026 |
| Certified B Corporation | Brand-asserted, unverified | 31 July 2026 |
NSF/ANSI 173 Dietary Supplements (contents certification)
Found on the certifier’s own public register.
Confirmed on NSF's own register, Official Listings current as of 2026-07-31: OLLY, Public Benefit Corporation, 415 Jackson Street, San Francisco, CA; facility Bristol, IN; category Probiotic; trade designation "PROBIOTIC TROPICAL MANGO"; Product ID "All"; Gummy; 2 gummies daily. The register's own scope note, verbatim: "NSF has tested and Certified that these products contain the identity and quantity of dietary ingredients declared on the product label and do not contain unacceptable quantities of unwanted contaminants." That is a contents certification — the one certification type in this entire audit that speaks to whether the CFU on the label is in the bottle. Six other OLLY probiotic SKUs are separately listed. Two honest caveats travel with it and must not be dropped: the register lists a trade designation rather than a UPC or pack size, so it does not by itself distinguish the 50-count from the 80-count; and the listing does not name the organism, so it cannot be used to confirm which formula (MTCC 5856 or DE111) was tested. Product ID "All" and the current listing date make current-formula coverage the reasonable reading, but that is an inference, not a register statement.
Certified B Corporation
The badge is displayed, but the register could not be reached to confirm it. We call this unverified, not false.
The seal appears on the label. bcorporation.net returns 403 to both curl and WebFetch, so it could not be checked. Note separately that B Corp certifies company social and environmental performance and says nothing about product identity, potency or purity.
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 cfu-basis-unstated
No expiry guarantee of any kind on a live-organism product. The words "expiration", "at manufacture" and "guarantee" do not appear on the brand product page or the Amazon listing, and the prior-formula label record carries no potency-basis statement either.
The record: olly.com product page and amazon.com/dp/B0CGVWYM26 scanned for potency-basis language, 2026-07-31
Finding 2 no-label-record-for-the-current-formula-or-this-upc
The only on-market DSLD record for this product line describes a different organism (B. coagulans MTCC 5856) and a different pack (the 50-gummy UPC). Two searches found nothing for the DE111 formula or the 80-count UPC.
The record: DSLD 273631, 230254 and 201721 all carry UPC 8 58158 00513 8; two further searches returned nothing, 2026-07-31 — open it (opens in a new tab)
Finding 3 formula-switched-organisms-with-no-public-changelog
Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 was replaced by Bacillus subtilis DE111, and no public changelog for the switch could be found. A repeat buyer relying on the old strain would have no way to know.
The record: DSLD 273631 versus olly.com product page and the Amazon ingredient block, all 2026-07-31
Finding 4 one-billion-cfu-per-day
The second-lowest daily dose in its batch and roughly one fiftieth of the multi-strain SKUs audited alongside it. Whether that matters depends entirely on the strain, and dose-adequacy for DE111 was not verified here — so this is recorded as a fact about the label, not as a criticism of the formula.
The record: olly.com product page, "one billion live cultures", 2026-07-31
Finding 5 three-grams-of-added-sugar-and-gelatin-per-serving
Other ingredients on the current SKU: glucose syrup, sugar, water, gelatin, pectin, citric acid, lactic acid, natural flavors, sodium citrate, tartaric acid, coloring from curcumin. Not vegetarian. The prior-formula label record shows 3 g total sugars and 15 kcal per 2-gummy serving. A candy delivery format with the trade-offs that implies.
The record: amazon.com/dp/B0CGVWYM26 ingredient block and DSLD 273631 nutrition panel, 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.
- Certified B Corporation status
- The seal appears on the label. bcorporation.net returns 403 to both curl and WebFetch, so it could not be checked. Note separately that B Corp certifies company social and environmental performance and says nothing about product identity, potency or purity.
- A men’s-versus-women’s label diff
- The same brand’s women’s SKU has not been compared against this panel.
- Any federal label record for the current formula or this pack size
- Three DSLD records exist for "OLLY Probiotic Tropical Mango" — 273631 (on-market), 230254 (off-market) and 201721, "Purely Probiotic Tropical Mango" (off-market) — and all three carry UPC 8 58158 00513 8, the 50-gummy pack, not this one. More consequentially, DSLD 273631 records the organism as Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856, whereas the current product is Bacillus subtilis DE111. Two searches — "OLLY probiotic gummy" and a UPC-format query — found no record for either the DE111 formula or the 80-count UPC. The formula changed and the federal database has not caught up.
- Which formula NSF tested
- The register listing names a trade designation and a dosage form, not an organism and not a UPC. Product ID "All" and the current listing date make current-formula coverage the reasonable reading; it is an inference and is recorded as one.
- Whether 1 billion CFU a day is a studied dose for DE111
- The doses used in the DE111 trials were not checked in this pass, so no claim is made about dose-matching in either direction.
- The B Corp certification
- bcorporation.net returns 403 to automated requests. Brand-asserted, unverified.
- Amazon's current US price
- The fetch is geolocated outside the US and Amazon returned EUR carousel figures rather than the buy-box. The price published here is the brand's own.
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.
Almost every certification claim this project checks turns out to be about something other than what is in the bottle: gluten absence, GMO absence, facility process, workplace culture, corporate conduct. This one is different, and it is worth saying loudly because it is rare.
OLLY’s NSF/ANSI 173 listing was confirmed at NSF’s own register — trade designation “PROBIOTIC TROPICAL MANGO”, Product ID “All”, facility in Bristol, Indiana, 2 gummies daily. The register’s own scope note says what that means: “NSF has tested and Certified that these products contain the identity and quantity of dietary ingredients declared on the product label and do not contain unacceptable quantities of unwanted contaminants.” That is a contents certification — the one type in this entire audit that speaks to whether the CFU on the label is actually in the product. Two caveats travel with it and must not be dropped: the register lists a trade designation rather than a UPC, so it does not distinguish the 50-count from the 80-count, and it does not name the organism, so it cannot by itself confirm which formula was tested.
The label itself is clean in the way single-organism products tend to be. One strain, Bacillus subtilis DE111, fully designated, with five human randomised trials under that exact code, and its dose printed because there is nowhere to hide it: 1 billion live cultures per two gummies. Whether one billion a day is a studied dose for DE111 was not checked here, and no claim is made about that in either direction.
Two things sit against it. First, no potency basis at all. The words “expiration”, “at manufacture” and “guarantee” do not appear on the brand page or the Amazon listing, and the label record carries no basis statement either. On a live-organism product, that is the omission that matters most.
Second, the paper trail is out of date in a specific and consequential way. The only on-market federal label record for this product line describes a different organism — Bacillus coagulans MTCC 5856 — and a different pack size. The formula was switched to DE111, confirmed independently by the brand page and the Amazon ingredient block, and no public changelog for the switch could be found. A repeat buyer who chose this product for the old strain would have no way of knowing.
And it is, at the end of it, a gummy: 3 g of added sugar per serving and gelatin in the base, so not vegetarian.