Ask for the split
Customer service can be asked directly what proportion of the blend any single extract makes up. A company that will answer is telling you something; so is a company that will not.
Inside the blend
One number, twenty-two names and a convention about order. Here is precisely how much that lets you know, and where it stops.
A proprietary blend is a single declared weight with a list of names under it. On this label the weight is 15.47 mg and the list runs to twenty-two entries. Understanding what that does and does not tell you is the most useful thing on this website.
What the total tells you
It tells you the combined weight of everything in the blend, per serving. Fifteen and a half milligrams is a small figure in absolute terms; for comparison, a standard paracetamol tablet is five hundred milligrams. That is not a criticism. Concentrated extracts are supposed to weigh little, which is the point of concentrating them, and a liquid dropper cannot carry much mass in a millilitre.
What the order tells you
The convention is descending weight, and on this panel that puts maca root first and L-carnitine HCL last. So maca outweighs African mango, African mango outweighs grape seed, and so on down. What the order does not tell you is the size of any gap. The first item could be most of the blend or it could be marginally more than the second.
What the ratios tell you
Most entries carry a mark tying them to a footnote: 20:1 for the majority, 10:1 for African mango seed and grapefruit seed. That describes manufacture. Twenty kilos of leaf reduced to one kilo of extract is a 20:1 concentrate. It says nothing about potency in a person, and a higher ratio is not automatically a stronger anything.
What nobody can tell you
How much gymnema is in a dropperful. How much green tea. Whether the chromium picolinate at 7 mcg is doing more or less than the botanicals beside it. Those answers exist inside the manufacturer's specification and they have not been published, so this site does not print a number for any single item inside the blend. If your supplier ever releases a full breakdown, these pages can be rebuilt from it in an afternoon.
Six against twenty-two
Where the Glycobalance graphic and the panel diverge
Six named, twenty-two declared
The seller's formula graphic features six ingredients and calls them a synergistic blend of six powerful natural ingredients. The panel declares twenty-two. Both statements can sit on the same product: six are being promoted, twenty-two are being disclosed.
The practical consequence is that the six in the picture are the six with the best photographs and the best-known names, not necessarily the six with the most weight behind them. Maca is first on the panel and does appear in the graphic. Grape seed, guarana, eleuthero and astragalus are all ahead of ginseng on the label and appear in no picture at all.
Being a harder customer
Three questions worth asking any seller
None of these is specific to Glycobalance. They work on any supplement with a blend on the back.
Ask for a certificate of analysis
A batch certificate is the document that shows what a specific run actually contained and what it was tested for. Sellers are not obliged to hand one over, and plenty will.
Compare like with like
A competing bottle quoting 500 mg of a blend is not thirty times better than this one. Different extracts, different ratios, different carriers. Weight alone settles nothing.
If you take medicine for blood sugar, read this first
Insulin and sulfonylureas lower blood sugar by design. A supplement taken alongside them is a second variable in the same system, and the person who can judge that is your prescriber, not a website. Talk to them before you start, keep testing exactly as you were told to, and do not reduce, delay or stop any prescribed dose because you have begun taking drops. The same conversation is worth having before surgery, during pregnancy or breastfeeding, and if you are already taking a herbal preparation that affects glucose. Everything on this subject is set out on the safety information page.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Questions
Glycobalance blend questions
Is a proprietary blend legal?
Yes. A manufacturer may declare a blend as a single total and list its contents in descending order of weight without publishing the split. It is a normal and permitted way to label a supplement.
Why would a company hide the amounts?
The usual stated reason is to protect a formula from being copied. The usual criticism is that it also hides how little of an expensive item might be present. Both can be true of the same label and neither can be checked from outside.
Can I work the amounts out myself?
No. You know the total is 15.47 mg and you know the order. You do not know whether the first item is half the blend or a tenth of it, and any page claiming to know is guessing.
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