SodaSlim FAQ: 49 Questions Answered

At least 141.9 mg, and the label will not tell you the total. It prints 138 mg of caffeine anhydrous directly, and bounds the green tea extract at under 3% caffeine, which is at most 3.9 mg. It says nothing about the caffeine in 130 mg of green coffee bean extract — that extract is standardised to chlorogenic acids, which says nothing about caffeine, and nothing on the label decaffeinates it. The FDA cites 400 mg a day as the figure not generally associated with dangerous negative effects in healthy adults.

The FDA puts a 12-fluid-ounce serving of regular brewed coffee at 113 to 247 milligrams. So 138 mg is roughly half a cup to a cup and a quarter, depending on the coffee. The figure that matters is the sum: this capsule plus whatever you already drink, against 400 mg.

The brief recommends mornings for appetite control and energy; the label itself only says one capsule daily. On a capsule carrying at least 138 mg of caffeine, morning is the sensible reading regardless of what the label says, and we would treat a late dose the way we would treat a late coffee.

Quite possibly, and the likeliest reason is the caffeine rather than anything about fat metabolism. There is at least 138 mg of it in each capsule. The label's claim is <i>promotes energy production from fat</i>, which is permitted wording about a normal process; what a buyer actually notices in week one is most likely a stimulant dose roughly equivalent to a cup of coffee.

Then this is a product to discuss with a clinician rather than to try. There is at least 138 mg per capsule and the label gives no way to take a smaller dose — it is one capsule, and the caution panel says do not exceed it. High blood pressure, heart rhythm problems and anxiety disorders are the conditions where caffeine matters most, and they are on our fit-check for that reason.

Six hundred and fifty-eight milligrams of declared ingredients, plus a hypromellose shell. Four of the five ingredients are at exactly 130 mg and the fifth, caffeine anhydrous, is at 138. Three of the five also state a standardisation, so you can work out that you are getting 65 mg of chlorogenic acids, 65 mg of HCA, 97.5 mg of catechins and 58.5 mg of EGCG.

Not against the research. The label states 50% HCA, so 130 mg delivers 65 mg of hydroxycitric acid. The NIH describes studies using 1,000 to 2,800 mg a day of HCA — between fifteen and forty-three times this amount — and concludes that the effect of <i>Garcinia cambogia</i> on body weight remains uncertain even at those doses.

Nobody has established that. The NIH's position is that it has been &ldquo;studied only in combination with other ingredients&rdquo; and that there is &ldquo;insufficient research to draw firm conclusions&rdquo;. That makes it different from the other four: there is no single-ingredient human dose to set 130 mg beside, so we cannot tell you whether it is a large amount or a small one.

This is the one ingredient here at a dose the literature would recognise. The NIH describes a meta-analysis in which overweight participants received either 180 or 200 mg a day of green coffee extract, finding a mean weight loss 2.47 kg greater than placebo. This capsule has 130 mg, which is under by less than a factor of two. The same review notes the methodological quality of all those studies was poor, and that caveat travels with the result.

Close to one. The label's standardisation is the most complete on this desk — 98% polyphenols, 75% catechins, 45% EGCG, under 3% caffeine — so 130 mg gives 97.5 mg of catechins. The NIH describes trials using catechin doses from 141 to 1,207 mg, which modestly but significantly reduced body weight by a mean of 1.38 kg when combined with caffeine. So this sits just below the bottom of the studied band.

We do not know and we are not going to guess at a motive. What can be said is what it is not. It is not four ingredients each set to its own studied dose, because their studied doses are nothing like each other — garcinia's is measured in grams of HCA, green coffee's in low hundreds of milligrams of extract, and raspberry ketone's does not exist. A round number repeated four times is a number chosen for the formula.

No, and that is worth crediting. All five ingredients carry their own printed amount, so nothing is hidden behind a total. It is also what makes every criticism on this site possible: a label that hid these amounts inside a blend would have escaped all of them while being no better.

They are standardisations, and they are the most useful thing on this panel. 50% chlorogenic acids means half the 130 mg of green coffee extract is the compound the research is about. 50% HCA means the same for garcinia. The green tea line gives four figures at once. Without a standardisation, a milligram figure tells you the weight of powder rather than the quantity of anything in it.

The label claims <i>helps support healthy weight management</i>, which is permitted structure and function wording, and it never claims it causes weight loss. No published human trial exists on this formula. The NIH's summaries of the individual ingredients are mixed at best and, at these amounts, mostly not applicable: garcinia's effect remains uncertain at doses fifteen times larger, raspberry ketone has insufficient research, and the green coffee result came from methodologically poor studies.

We cannot tell you that about any supplement, and nobody who sells one should. What we can do is quote the sources and point at the label's own caution panel, which says do not exceed the recommended dose, that it is not for use by anyone under 18 or by pregnant or nursing mothers, and that anyone taking a medication or with a medical condition should consult a physician first. That instruction is on the bottle and it is the right one.

It carries a documented signal, and the honest answer is that we cannot tell you how it applies at 65 mg of HCA. The NIH records 10 cases of liver toxicity in people taking products containing this ingredient, resulting in one death and two liver transplants, while noting causation could not be definitively established. NCCIH says several cases of liver damage have been reported and that some were severe, but that this appears to be uncommon. It also notes possible interactions with medications affecting the liver and serotonin.

It has a real signal and this product sits well below it. NCCIH: &ldquo;Although uncommon, liver injury has been reported in some people who used green tea products, primarily green tea extracts in tablet or capsule form.&rdquo; The NIH's weight-loss sheet records that green tea products &ldquo;probably&rdquo; caused 7 cases of liver damage and &ldquo;possibly&rdquo; caused 27. At 58.5 mg of EGCG per capsule this is a long way below the intakes that signal is associated with.

The label's caution panel says to consult a physician prior to use especially if you are taking a medication, and that is the right instruction. Two specifics worth taking to them: NCCIH notes garcinia may interact with medications affecting the liver and serotonin, and caffeine has its own interaction list. The panel prints every amount, so a pharmacist assessing this has real numbers to work with.

No. The label is explicit: not for use by pregnant or nursing mothers. That is the label's own wording and we would follow it exactly.

No. The caution panel says it is not for use by individuals under the age of 18, and the brief states the product is for healthy adults 18 and over.

A dietary supplement in vegetable capsules, thirty to a bottle, taken as one capsule a day. The front reads SodaSlim, Metabolic &amp; Appetite Support, with three further claims. The panel declares five ingredients, each with its own printed amount: green coffee bean extract 130 mg, raspberry ketone 130 mg, garcinia extract 130 mg, caffeine anhydrous 138 mg and green tea extract 130 mg.

The label says: as a dietary supplement, take one capsule daily. The brief adds that for best results in appetite control and energy levels, mornings are suggested. The caution panel adds: do not exceed the recommended dose.

In a cool, dry place below 30&deg;C, which is 86&deg;F. That is the label's own instruction, it is a single instruction, and it has a number on it. After several products on this desk with vague or contradictory storage lines, that is genuinely good practice.

Take the next one as usual. The caution panel says do not exceed the recommended dose, so doubling up to catch up is specifically not what it asks for — and on a capsule carrying at least 138 mg of caffeine, two at once is the one mistake worth avoiding.

No timeline was published for this product and we print none. The brief records that most buyers waited three to six weeks, but that figure sits inside a review block the same document marks as layout copy, so we do not treat it as evidence. The ingredient trials the NIH describes ran four to twelve weeks. The caffeine, by contrast, works within the hour, which is worth separating out.

It is a real inconsistency and a useful one. The panel declares <i>green coffee bean extract</i>, and the whole premise of green coffee extract is that the beans are unroasted — roasting degrades the chlorogenic acids the extract is standardised to. The pack contains a photograph of dark roasted beans alongside one of green unroasted beans. The panel governs, and the panel says green.

Natural has no regulatory definition for a dietary supplement. This capsule contains caffeine anhydrous — a manufactured, dehydrated, concentrated powder — and four standardised extracts, which are processed concentrates by definition. All of it is ordinary and all of it is disclosed. The label is more honest than the roundel.

This one is done correctly, and it is worth saying so after several that were not. The label prints <i>manufactured in the USA with globally sourced ingredients</i>, which is a qualified claim of exactly the kind the FTC describes — one that states the extent or type of domestic content. The badge on the front carries the same qualifier in smaller type underneath it rather than hiding it in the small print.

The capsule shell is hypromellose, printed on the label as a vegetable capsule, and it is the only other ingredient. Nothing on the panel is animal-derived. That makes it checkable against the label rather than an assertion, which is rare.

None appears in anything we were given. The brief says the lot and best-before appear on the base of the bottle when the bottle shows them, so the base of your own bottle is the only place to look.

Lot SOD-26/SO-6271 and certificate reference SOD-6271-26-SO. The same document that supplies them describes both as draft labels rather than lab proof, so we publish them as references and not as evidence. No laboratory is named and no certificate of analysis was supplied.

The label says <i>distributed for</i> Gex Corporation LLP, PO Box 12730, Ogden, UT 84404, with a telephone number and [email protected]. No manufacturing facility is named. 21 CFR 101.5 asks for a street address, city, State and ZIP unless the firm is listed in a current city or telephone directory, and a PO Box is not a street address.

Sodaslimroutine, described in the brief as the official U.S. SodaSlim shop. We are a retailer for this product and a review desk for the same product, we earn a commission on orders placed here, and we say so on five pages including this one.

Yes. Orders placed through the buttons on this site earn this site a commission. That is the whole funding model, and it is why an editorial score of 2.8 out of 5, a section on roasted beans in a green coffee product and a chart showing a fifteen-fold dose gap are all published here rather than quietly left out.

No dietary supplement is. The FDA states that it &ldquo;does not have the authority to approve dietary supplements before they are marketed&rdquo;. The registered-facility badge means a factory filed a registration, which is an administrative requirement rather than an inspection result or an endorsement. We never write FDA approved on this site and this label does not either.

Nobody is named. Not on the label, not on the listing, not anywhere in the material we were given. The pack does contain a stock photograph of a man in a white coat pointing at the bottle, with no name, no institution and no credential beside it. We have published it captioned as exactly that, and we have not invented a formulator.

On its own, nothing. The pack contains a bar of four logos — the International Journal of Obesity, Nature, The Boston Globe and the American Physiological Society — with no paper, author, date, title or finding attached to any of them. A journal logo is not a citation. We have published the bar and said exactly that.

Five were supplied with the pack: 10-Day Metabolic Challenge, Accelerated Metabolism, Facial Rejuvenation, Renova Flora Protocol and Personalized Usage Guide. They are worth noticing because they promise things the regulated label carefully does not — a ten-day timeframe, an acceleration, and a facial outcome on a metabolic capsule. We have published the covers and said so.

Because the material we were given marks its own review block as layout copy. Its exact words: reviews, star scores and order counts in this pack are layout copy only. It contains a 4.4-star score, 732 written reviews, 6,294 orders and eight named buyers. Publishing any of that as feedback would mean inventing customers, so we publish none of it and say why.

No price was published to us and we print none. Pack prices are whatever the info page shows at checkout. What we can tell you is the denominator: one capsule a day, thirty to a bottle, so a bottle is exactly a month and any price divides cleanly into a cost per day.

One bottle, if you are deciding whether it suits you. The guarantee is 60 days from purchase, a bottle is 30 days, so one bottle finishes with half the window still to run and two finish on the last day of it. Three and six bottles both run past the window — and on a stimulant, six months bought in advance is a decision made before you know how it suits you.

Here, if you want the refund window on this desk to apply. An order placed here sits on the desk that answers +1 (302) 200-3480 with an order ID that desk can look up. An order placed on a marketplace is somebody else's policy and we cannot see it, refund it or help with it.

Neither was published to us. What we were told is that orders ship from the United States unless the sales page says otherwise, and that a tracking number arrives in the order email. We have not printed a delivery estimate nobody gave us.

60 days from purchase, unless the sales page prints a longer window. Counted from purchase rather than from delivery or from the first capsule. Claim it by calling +1 (302) 200-3480 with your order ID. It is a purchase policy, not a medical promise.

Call +1 (302) 200-3480 with your order ID first, then post it to 400 Park Avenue, Floor 10, New York, NY 10022, with your full name, order email and order ID written on a sheet inside the parcel. Return shipping is paid by the buyer and should be tracked.

Two windows that add up: 3 to 5 business days for the desk to credit it once the return is processed, then a further 5 to 10 days for it to appear on your card.

+1 (302) 200-3480 for anything about an order: tracking, changes, refunds. [email protected] for anything about this website: pages, typos, privacy, press, Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm ET. The website address cannot see your order. The label also prints the distributor's number, +1 (507) 448-8190.

Because the label is the best-built one on this desk and the formula behind it is mostly under-dosed. Panel completeness and standardisation both score 4.5. Dose against research scores 1.5, because 65 mg of HCA against 1,000 to 2,800 mg is the dominant fact about this product. Stimulant disclosure scores 2.0, because 138 mg is printed and the green coffee's caffeine is not. Price clarity and buyer feedback score as they do on every product here.

More than usual, and it would be dishonest to skip it. Five ingredients, five printed amounts, no proprietary blend. Three standardisations, including the most complete line this desk has read. A one-item other-ingredients line. A plain-language <i>Contains Caffeine</i> statement nobody required. A properly worded caution panel. A single storage instruction with a temperature in both scales. A correctly qualified made-in-USA claim with the qualifier on the badge itself. Four structure and function claims that name no disease. And a green coffee dose within touching distance of the trials. The problem is not the label's honesty. It is what the honest numbers add up to.