Gelatine Sculpt Official Website: Drops for Metabolism and Appetite Support

The only ingredient on this label with an amount against its name, and the amount is the reason this page exists. The panel prints 0.7 mcg, or 2% of the Daily Value. NIH's chromium fact sheet gives the DV as 35 mcg for adults and children age 4 and older, so 2% is arithmetically right. The same fact sheet describes the weight-loss trials, and in those trials the doses of chromium picolinate were 200 to 1,000 mcg per day. The low end of that range is 286 times the amount printed here. If two droppers turn out to be two servings - and the label never says how many millilitres a dropper holds - the factor would still be 143. NIH's own conclusion about those trials is worth reading before the gap impresses anyone in either direction: supplementation reduces body weight and body fat percentage to a very small, but statistically significant, extent, and these effects have little clinical significance. So the honest reading is not that a bigger number would have worked. It is that the one number on this label is a long way below the doses that produced an effect NIH already calls clinically insignificant.

First in the blend, which under the ordering rule makes it the heaviest single member and puts its ceiling at the whole 200 mg. That ceiling is the weakest one on the label, in the sense that it rules out almost nothing. Neither NIH's weight-loss fact sheet nor the NCCIH pages we opened gives a weight-loss dose for maca, so there is no published figure to hold the ceiling against. The panel also spells the species mevenii; the accepted spelling is meyenii, and the seller's own marketing panel spells it correctly, which means the two documents in this pack disagree with each other about the name of the largest ingredient.

Second in the blend, so it cannot exceed 100 mg and cannot be heavier than the maca above it. Our sources do not give a weight-loss dose for grape seed extract, so this entry is a ceiling with nothing to compare it to. We would rather say that than borrow a number from a study we did not open.

Third in the blend, ceiling 66.7 mg. This is the ingredient that makes the missing amounts a safety question rather than only a value question. NIH's weight-loss fact sheet lists guarana as a caffeine source at 3% to 6% caffeine. Apply that band to the ceiling and the most caffeine guarana could contribute is about 2 to 4 mg per serving, which is small. But that is the ceiling, not the amount, and the label publishes no total caffeine anywhere. A reader who needs to count caffeine - and NIH puts the safe band for most adults at 400 to 500 mg a day - cannot count this one, because the number is not printed.

Fourth in the blend, ceiling 50 mg. This is the cleanest comparison on the whole label, because NIH's weight-loss fact sheet gives an exact trial protocol: 150 mg IGOB131 or placebo 30 to 60 minutes before lunch and dinner, a 300 mg total daily dose, for 10 weeks. 300 mg is more than the entire 200 mg blend. Even if African mango were the only thing in the blend and the other 21 members weighed nothing, one serving would still be a third short of that trial's daily dose. At its actual ceiling of 50 mg it is at most one sixth of it. The fact sheet does report that Irvingia gabonensis extract causes statistically significant reductions in body weight and waist circumference at that dose, which is why the shortfall is worth naming rather than shrugging at.

Fifth in the blend, ceiling 40 mg. Our sources do not give a dose for eleuthero in a weight context, so there is no figure to compare the ceiling with. Worth noting only because it is one of two separate ginseng-family entries on a label that names 23 substances and shows six.

Sixth in the blend, ceiling 33.3 mg. No weight-loss dose for astragalus appears in the sources we opened. It is also one of the 17 ingredients that the seller's own ingredient panel leaves out entirely, which is the pattern worth watching on this label rather than anything about astragalus in particular.

Seventh in the blend, ceiling 28.6 mg of extract. NIH's weight-loss fact sheet reports that across its trials doses of green tea catechins ranged from 141 to 1,207 mg, and that green tea supplementation reduced body weight by a mean of 0.95 kg more than placebo. Catechins are a fraction of an extract's weight, not the whole of it, so 28.6 mg of extract cannot carry 141 mg of catechins - the ceiling is below the bottom of the studied range before the extract is even standardised. The same fact sheet carries the safety line: green tea extract might cause liver damage, and consumption of some green tea extracts has been linked to liver damage in at least 50 case reports since 2006. NCCIH puts it as: although uncommon, liver injury has been reported in some people who used green tea products, primarily green tea extracts in tablet or capsule form. Both halves matter here. The amount is too small to expect the benefit from, and it is also not published, so nobody can check it against the case reports either.

Eighth in the blend, ceiling 25 mg. Our sources give no weight-loss dose for gymnema. Another of the 17 that do not appear on the seller's ingredient panel.

Ninth in the blend, ceiling 22.2 mg. NIH's weight-loss fact sheet describes the trial material as 500 mg standardized for 10% forskolin, taken for 12 weeks, and reports the result plainly: Coleus forskohlii extract had no effect on body weight. So this is the one entry on the label where both halves point the same way. The ceiling is about one twenty-second of the studied dose, and the studied dose did not work. A larger amount would not have rescued it.

Tenth in the blend, ceiling 20 mg. NIH's fact sheet is unusually specific here: doses of capsaicinoids ranged from 0.2 mg in a single meal to 33 mg per day for 4 weeks, and consuming capsaicinoids significantly reduced energy intake by a mean of 74 kcal per meal. That is the one range on this label a 20 mg ceiling could in principle sit inside - but the range is for capsaicinoids, and 20 mg is the ceiling for the whole fruit extract, of which capsaicinoids are a small fraction. The label publishes no standardisation, so the comparison cannot be completed. It is the closest this product comes to a studied dose, and it still cannot be checked.

Eleventh in the blend, ceiling 18.2 mg. FDA's consumer page on grapefruit and medicines explains that grapefruit blocks an enzyme in the small intestine so that the juice lets more of the drug enter the blood, and that when there is too much drug in the blood, you may have more side effects. The categories it names are broad: cholesterol-lowering statins, blood pressure medicines, organ-transplant rejection drugs, anti-anxiety medicines, corticosteroids, heart rhythm drugs and antihistamines. That page is about juice, in glassfuls, and we are not going to pretend it is about 18 mg of fruit extract - it does not say that, and neither will we. What we will say is that FDA's own note that the severity of the interaction can be different depending on the person, the drug, and the amount of grapefruit you take is impossible to act on when the amount is not printed. If you take any of those medicines, the person to ask is your prescriber, not this site.

Twelfth in the blend, ceiling 16.7 mg. NCCIH's Asian ginseng page records that short-term oral use, up to 6 months, in recommended amounts appears to be safe for most people, and that insomnia is the herb's most common side effect. It also records that uncommon side effects that have been reported include severe rash, liver damage, and severe allergic reactions, that Asian ginseng may worsen autoimmune disorders and interfere with blood clotting, and that if you take any type of medicine you should talk with your health care provider before using it. The phrase to notice in the first sentence is 'in recommended amounts'. This label does not print an amount, and NCCIH's material is about root preparations while the panel specifies the aerial extract, which is a different part of the plant.

Thirteenth in the blend, ceiling 15.4 mg. NIH's weight-loss fact sheet gives raspberry ketone no dose and no verdict, only: insufficient research to draw firm conclusions. That is not a weak finding, it is the absence of one, and no amount on a label would change it.

Fourteenth in the blend, ceiling 14.3 mg. Our sources give no weight-loss dose for L-glutamine. From here down the list the ceilings fall below 15 mg, and amino acids are usually studied in grams rather than milligrams, so the gap between a ceiling and a studied dose stops being a gap and becomes a different order of magnitude.

Fifteenth in the blend, ceiling 13.3 mg. No weight-loss dose for L-tyrosine appears in the sources we opened, and none is printed here to compare with.

Sixteenth in the blend, ceiling 12.5 mg. Our sources do not give a dose for it in this context. Like the other amino acids on this label it is named but not quantified.

Seventeenth in the blend, ceiling 11.8 mg. No dose in our sources. Beta-alanine is the ingredient usually associated with the tingling sensation some people report on sports products; whether a bounded amount this small would produce it is not something our sources address, and the label does not say.

Eighteenth in the blend, ceiling 11.1 mg. This one is on the label and absent from every piece of marketing in the pack, which is worth knowing because NCCIH's licorice root page is the bluntest safety text we read for this product. Licorice contains a component called glycyrrhizin, or glycyrrhizic acid, that can cause serious adverse effects, such as irregular heartbeat and cardiac arrest, especially when consumed in large amounts or in the long term. And: even small amounts of glycyrrhizin from licorice root products have been linked to severe adverse effects in people who consume a lot of salt, in people with hypertension, and in people with heart or kidney conditions. NCCIH also records that interactions between licorice and corticosteroids have been reported. A ceiling of 11.1 mg is small. But 'even small amounts' is NCCIH's phrase, not ours, and the actual amount is not printed. If you have high blood pressure, a heart condition or a kidney condition, this is the line on the label to take to your doctor.

Nineteenth in the blend, ceiling 10.5 mg. Our sources give no dose and no weight-loss finding for oral GABA, so there is nothing to hold the ceiling against. It is another of the 17 the seller's ingredient panel does not show.

Twentieth in the blend, ceiling 10 mg. No dose in our sources.

Twenty-first in the blend, ceiling 9.5 mg. The panel prints 'L-Typtophan'; the amino acid is L-tryptophan. We leave the spelling as printed because this page is a transcription, and we note it because a label with four misspellings on it is a label that was not closely proofread.

Last in the blend, which under the ordering rule makes it the lightest member and puts its ceiling at 9.1 mg. Our sources give no weight-loss dose for L-carnitine. Being last is the only quantitative thing this label says about it.