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Seed DS-01 Daily Synbiotic — label audit

All 24 strain designators printed on this label were queried in quotes. Twenty-three return nothing at all, and the twenty-fourth returns one record that is a review, not a trial. As sold and as labelled, 0 of 24 strains can be mapped to any published human trial — and Seed is simultaneously the only product in this cohort with randomised placebo-controlled human trials of the finished formula at the sold dose.

Roman Sydorenko, Independent analyst · Last verified 30 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.

Absent from the panel. From the help centre: "It's safe to take if expired—however, we only guarantee potency and efficacy up until the expiration date.""

The panel’s own words on potency, verbatim.

The brand page promises a through-expiry count. The printed panel does not. Only the panel is a label claim.

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.

• Dated capture of the brand’s own page — seed-ds01-browser-session-2026-07-30https://seed.com/daily-synbiotic — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured 30 July 2026 Read in-browser after a Cloudflare managed challenge; every automated route to seed.com, including the sitemap, returns HTTP 403. The session was not retained, so the panel and the 24-strain list as printed cannot be reproduced by a reader. The 24 designators themselves were independently re-queried during the audit, which reproduces the central finding.
• Dated capture of the brand’s own page — help-seed-ds01-295557https://help.seed.com/en-US/articles/ds-01-daily-synbiotic-295557 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured 30 July 2026 Seed's help centre, source for the at-expiry potency statement, the MAPP prebiotic identity and the dose rationale. Also from an unretained browser session.

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.

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 #

$1.67 a day at the dose the label itself instructs.

Price

$49.99 USD

What that buys

60-capsule bottle (30-day supply, 2 capsules daily), monthly subscription only

Price checked

30 July 2026 — the source we read it fromhttps://seed.com/daily-synbiotic — 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.

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 #

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.

Full-formula screening for allergens, contaminants and pesticides status

Seed claims gluten, dairy, nut, soy, shellfish, sesame and glyphosate/AMPA testing, states that DS-01 is screened "as a full formula" rather than as raw materials, and says it is tested for all 14 EFSA allergen classes. That full-formulation screening claim is genuinely distinctive — most brands test raw materials. But no certifier, laboratory or certification programme is named anywhere. There is no NSF mark, no USP verification, no Clean Label Project award, no Informed Choice registration and no Non-GMO Project butterfly.

Non-GMO Project Verified status

Not claimed, and Seed explains why in its help centre: the product contains no genetically modified organisms and is therefore non-GMO, but the brand declines the certification on the grounds that the label "doesn't contribute to blanket fears and misunderstandings". That is a defensible, principled position and should be reported as such rather than as a gap. The practical consequence is the same either way: there is no external database in which any Seed testing claim can be checked.

Everything on this page that comes from Seed's own product page

seed.com hard-blocks all automated access behind a Cloudflare managed challenge, including its sitemap, so the panel, the 24-strain list as printed, the blend allocations, the AFU totals, the ViaCap copy, the help-centre quotations and the negative string searches all come from a browser session that was not retained and cannot be reproduced by any reader — including by this project. Independently corroborated from third-party sources: the $49.99 monthly price, the 24 strains, the 53.6 billion AFU total, 60 capsules as a 30-day supply, and the subscription-only model. Separately, the audit re-queried all 24 designators independently and reproduced the central finding exactly: 23 return zero and only SD-LRE2-IT returns one non-trial record.

Which underlying strain each house code corresponds to

Seed publishes no mapping. The decodings recorded against each organism above are good-faith inferences from the middle token of each code and are labelled as inferences, not as identity claims. Seed does not print DSM, ATCC or CECT accession numbers, except where CECT happens to be embedded in three of the house codes.

Any government label record

Seed has none — DSLD returns zero records for the product or the brand.

The 400 mg prebiotic dose from any label surface

MAPP, the pomegranate-derived punicalagin prebiotic, does not appear on the product page at all. Its identity comes from Seed's help centre and its 400 mg dose comes from Seed's own published trials.

Any support for the ViaCap delivery claims

"ViaCap" returns zero PubMed records.

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://seed.com/daily-synbiotichttps://seed.com/daily-synbiotic — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits.