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Caffeine and supplements: reading a label that gives no total
Two of the 23 substances named on the Gelatine Sculpt label carry caffeine: guarana at position three of the blend and green tea at position seven. No total caffeine figure is printed anywhere. NIH gives guarana as 3 to 6 per cent caffeine, which puts the most that ingredient could contribute at roughly 2 to 4 mg a serving — small, and still a ceiling rather than an amount. NIH’s 400 to 500 mg band describes a whole day from every source, so it cannot be applied to a bottle with no total of its own.
By the Gelatine Sculpt Editorial Desk · Last updated September 24, 2026
On this label
The question
Two ingredients carry caffeine and the label totals neither
A reader who counts caffeine has one question, and on this bottle it has no answer. This page sets out what is published, what can be derived from it, and where the derivation stops.
The Gelatine Sculpt Supplement Facts panel names 23 substances. Two carry caffeine: guarana seed extract, third in the 200 mg proprietary blend, and green tea leaf extract, seventh. Neither has a weight against its name, because only one substance on the whole label does, and no total caffeine figure is printed anywhere.
| Ingredient | Position | At most | What is published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guarana (Paullinia cupana) seed extract | 3 | 66.7 mg or less | NIH gives guarana as 3% to 6% caffeine. Applied to the ceiling, at most about 2 to 4 mg. |
| Green tea (Camellia sinensis) leaf extract | 7 | 28.6 mg or less | NCCIH records that green tea contains caffeine. No percentage for an extract is published. |
| Total caffeine in one serving | — | — | Not published. No figure appears on the bottle, on the panel or in the supplier pack. |
The at most column is not an amount and is not offered as one. 21 CFR 101.36 requires the members of a proprietary blend to be declared in descending order of predominance by weight, so the ingredient in position n cannot exceed 200/n milligrams. Position three gives 66.7 mg; position seven gives 28.6 mg. The real weights could be a fraction of either.
The percentage
The one figure that exists
What applying a percentage to a ceiling actually produces
NIH’s weight-loss fact sheet lists guarana as a caffeine source and gives its content as “3%-6% caffeine”. That is the only published caffeine figure that touches this label, and it is a percentage of an ingredient rather than a weight in a bottle.
Put the two together. Three per cent of 66.7 mg is 2.0 mg. Six per cent is 4.0 mg. So the most caffeine the guarana in this product could contribute is about 2 to 4 mg a serving. We should be straightforward about the size of that: against the 400 to 500 mg daily band NIH gives for most adults, 2 to 4 mg is a small number.
What that sum is, and what it is not
A ceiling multiplied by a percentage is still a ceiling. If the guarana in this blend actually weighs 20 mg rather than 66.7, its caffeine falls to somewhere around 0.6 to 1.2 mg. If it weighs 5 mg, less again. Nothing on the label distinguishes those cases, so the honest sentence is at most about 2 to 4 mg, and any sentence that drops the first two words has turned a bound into a measurement.
Green tea
The half that cannot be bounded
One ingredient has a published percentage. The other does not.
NCCIH’s green tea page records that “No safety concerns have been reported for green tea consumed as a beverage by adults. However, green tea does contain caffeine.” That is a statement that caffeine is present, not a figure for how much, and the page it comes from is about the beverage as well as the extract.
An extract is not a leaf. How much caffeine a green tea extract carries depends on how it was made and what it was standardised to, and no extract on this label is standardised to anything. So the ceiling of 28.6 mg of extract cannot be converted into a caffeine figure even loosely. The guarana half of this question has a bound. The green tea half has none.
Two things often get mixed here. NIH’s weight-loss fact sheet reports that across its trials “doses of green tea catechins ranged from 141 to 1,207 mg”. Catechins are not caffeine; they are a different fraction of the same leaf, and neither number is a caffeine figure.
The band
400 to 500 milligrams
What the published band is a statement about
NIH puts the amount safe for most adults at 400 to 500 milligrams a day. Three things about that figure decide whether it can be used here.
The band describes twenty-four hours, not one swallow
The 400 to 500 milligram figure is a total across everything consumed in a day: coffee, tea, cola, energy drinks, chocolate, and any other supplement carrying caffeine under any of its names. It is not a per-serving limit, and a product cannot be inside it or outside it on its own.
Who the figure is not written for
The phrase is most adults. The label restricts this product to healthy adults 18 and over and sends anyone pregnant or nursing, anyone under 18 and anyone with a known medical condition to a physician first. In those groups the number to work from is a clinician’s, not a population figure.
Why the arithmetic stops at this bottle
Using the band means subtracting each source in turn. Two cups of coffee, a can of cola, a square of chocolate, and then this. The first three have published figures. The fourth does not, so the running total cannot be finished. That is a finding about a document rather than about a substance.
So the finding is narrower than either thing people expect a page like this to say. This site is not saying Gelatine Sculpt carries too much caffeine, and not saying the amount is safely small. The arithmetic cannot be completed, because one of its terms is missing from the document meant to carry it.
What would close the gap
One line on the panel would do it: total caffeine per serving, in milligrams. Failing that, a standardisation for the guarana and the green tea extract would let both ceilings be converted. Neither is printed. If either reaches this desk at [email protected], this page is rewritten around the number rather than around its absence.
Your day
Does the missing figure matter to you?
Five questions drawn from the label’s own caution and from the sources above. Nothing is recorded and nothing is sent anywhere.
Do you already drink more than two or three cups of coffee a day?
Do you take any other supplement that lists caffeine, guarana, green tea, yerba mate or kola nut?
Are you pregnant or nursing?
Do you take prescription medicine?
Does caffeine late in the day affect how you sleep?
Ask a clinician before this one, not after
Your answers include something the label itself sends to a physician. An unpublished caffeine figure is a poor thing to guess at when somebody qualified can be asked instead.
You would want the figure, and it is not printed
Nothing here says this product is unsuitable. It says the number you would use to decide is missing, and the order desk on +1 (925) 231-0148 is the only place left to ask.
The gap is still a gap, but it may not be yours
If caffeine is not something you track, the missing total is a fact about the label rather than a problem in your day. Still worth knowing before you buy.
Not medical advice and not a screening tool. A way of deciding whether an unpublished number is a number you personally needed.
This bottle
At the end of it
What this page can honestly tell a buyer
Gelatine Sculpt is a liquid supplement whose label names 23 substances and carries two that bring caffeine with them. The guarana half can be bounded at roughly 2 to 4 mg a serving at the very most. The green tea half cannot be bounded at all, and the total is not printed.
If caffeine is why you are asking, the order desk on +1 (925) 231-0148 is the place to ask before you buy rather than after. If you take medicine, are pregnant or nursing, or have a condition the label’s caution names, that conversation belongs with a clinician. The cautions page prints every safety sentence our sources carry.
Read the figures before the price
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Questions
Caffeine and supplements: common questions
How much caffeine is in one serving of Gelatine Sculpt?
Can you not work it out from the ceilings?
Is 2 to 4 milligrams a lot?
What is the 400 to 500 milligram figure?
What would fix this?
References
- National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements. Dietary Supplements for Weight Loss: Fact Sheet for Health Professionals. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/WeightLoss-HealthProfessional/
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Green Tea. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/green-tea
- Electronic Code of Federal Regulations. 21 CFR 101.36 - Nutrition labeling of dietary supplements. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-101/subpart-F/section-101.36
Every source above was opened and read on September 24, 2026. None of them tested Gelatine Sculpt itself. They describe the named ingredients and the product category, which is a different thing from testing this finished formula.
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