MemoVance Pro Label: Supplement Facts Explained

Serving size: 1 capsule. Servings per container: 30. Transcribed as printed, including the European decimal comma on the calcium row. The dagger is the panel's own footnote mark.

The footnote under the table reads that no Daily Value has been established for the marked rows. It is a statement about the reference standard, not about the ingredient: every one of those five rows still carries its own milligram figure immediately to its left.

Add the five amino acid rows together and the total is 640 mg per capsule. With the two nutrients that comes to 658 mg of declared material inside a size 0 or size 1 shell, which is a sensible fill for a capsule somebody has to swallow every morning.

Two lines sit above the table and they do more work than they look like they do.

Serving size: 1 capsule. Every figure in the column beside it belongs to one capsule. On a panel where the serving is two or three capsules, the row amounts have to be divided before they can be compared with anything, and that is where most label-reading mistakes happen. Here no arithmetic is needed.

Servings per container: 30. With a once-daily instruction, a bottle is exactly one month. That makes the pack ladder unusually easy to read: two bottles is sixty days, three is ninety, six is half a year, and none of it needs working out on a calculator.

The two lines together are also what lets a buyer check the bottle they received. Count the capsules, read the serving size, and the panel either matches the label on the front or it does not.

A percentage in the right-hand column tells you how one serving compares with a daily reference intake set for the general population. Those references exist for vitamins and minerals. They do not exist for individual amino acids, so a panel carrying arginine has nothing to put in that column and marks it with a footnote instead.

That mark is frequently misread as an amount being withheld. It is the opposite: the amount is right there in the middle column, and it is the reference standard that is missing. All five of this bottle's marked rows carry figures: L-Arginine (base) at 200 mg, L-Arginine AKG 2:1 Extract at 200 mg, L-Citrulline HCL at 100 mg, L-Citrulline Malate at 100 mg, Beta Alanine at 40 mg.

The two rows that do carry percentages are the two nutrients. Niacin at 47 per cent and calcium at 1,5 per cent are the only figures on this panel that can be compared with a national reference at all, and the honest dosage section works through what each of those percentages implies.

A Supplement Facts panel is only part of what is printed on the bottle. Reading the rest of it is the fastest way to work out how much a label is willing to tell you.

Transcribed from the label artwork shipped with this product.

Two of those rows are worth pausing on. The origin statement is a manufacturing claim about where the capsule was filled and where its raw materials came from, and it is the only production statement on the bottle: no manufacturer is named anywhere on the artwork, only a distributor.

The distributor block gives a postal address, a telephone number and an email. A buyer holding the bottle can therefore reach somebody about the product itself, which is separate from the desk that took the payment. Both routes, and what each one can actually answer, are set out on the contact page.

Supplement Facts is a defined format rather than a design choice, and knowing what the format requires makes it clear which parts of this panel were decisions and which were obligations.

The serving size, the servings per container, the name of each dietary ingredient and its quantity per serving are all required. So is a percentage of Daily Value where one exists, and the footnote where one does not. So is the other-ingredients line beneath the box. None of that is where a formulator has discretion.

The discretion is in what counts as one ingredient. A panel may group several components into a proprietary blend and print a single total, which is legal and common, and it is the decision that makes a formula unreadable. This bottle did not take that option.

The mineral rules explain one more detail. Calcium is declared as elemental calcium with the salt named in brackets, which is why the row reads 18 mg rather than the larger weight of carbonate that carries it. The absorption literature on calcium salts works in the same elemental units, so the two are directly comparable.

For anything beyond the label itself, the FDA's own questions and answers on dietary supplements covers what the agency does and does not do before a product reaches a shelf, and the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements publishes the consumer version of the same material.

A number on a panel is a declaration by the company that fills the bottle. It is not an assay result, and the difference is worth holding onto even while praising a label for printing seven of them.

What a declared figure establishes is intent and accountability. The manufacturer has committed in writing to what the capsule contains, in a format that can be compared against any other bottle in the category and against the research literature. That is a real thing, and a proprietary blend removes it.

What it does not establish is the contents of the capsule in your hand. Only an independent assay of that lot does that, and no such document is published for this product. Lot MEM-26/TH-4477 and certificate reference MEM-4477-26-TH are filing references held by this desk, which is a paper trail rather than laboratory proof, and the batch verification page is explicit about the difference.

Two other things a panel is silent on by design: the quality of the raw material behind a row, and the overage a manufacturer builds in so a figure still holds at the end of shelf life. Neither is a criticism of this bottle specifically. Both are true of every Supplement Facts panel ever printed, and NCCIH's guidance on using supplements sensibly makes the same point in more general terms.