Ten marks around this product. One has a number behind it, two are supported by the printed panel, and one is a broken graphic.
The SodaSlim pack carries ten quality marks. Exactly one has a confirmable fact behind it: the money-back guarantee, at 60 days from purchase, agreed on by two separate graphics. Vegetarian is supported by the printed panel, which names hypromellose as the capsule shell. Dairy free and GMO free are plausible from the other-ingredients line and unverified. The rest — FDA-registered facility, GMP, 100% natural ingredients and doctor formulated — have no certificate, no certifying body and no named laboratory. No doctor is named anywhere. The made-in-USA roundel is worse than unverified: it reads MANUFACTURE IN twice and never completes its own sentence.
The best-evidenced mark here. The brief gives 60 days from purchase unless the sales page prints a longer window, and a second gold roundel in the same pack agrees. A purchase policy rather than a medical promise, and the only claim with a number behind it.
Two graphics agreeing on one policy. Internal consistency is worth crediting because so often there is none.
The mark carries its own qualifier in smaller type underneath, which is better practice than most. It matches the label's printed wording: manufactured in the USA with globally sourced ingredients. That is the qualified construction the FTC describes, and we have nothing to criticise in it.
Also printed as a small mark on the label itself rather than only on the listing. A sourcing claim about raw materials, with no certifying body named and no certificate supplied.
Rules about how a product is made, recorded, traced and kept clean. A statement about process rather than contents: a GMP factory can perfectly well make a capsule containing 65 mg of HCA. No certifying body is named and no certificate was supplied.
The factory is on a list. The FDA states that it “does not have the authority to approve dietary supplements before they are marketed”, and facility registration is an administrative filing under the 2002 Bioterrorism Act. Not an inspection result and not an endorsement. No facility is named.
A second FDA-facility graphic in the same pack, in a different style. Neither carries a registration number or a facility name, so neither can be checked.
Natural has no regulatory definition for a dietary supplement. This capsule contains <b>caffeine anhydrous</b>, which is a manufactured, dehydrated, concentrated powder, and four standardised extracts. All are ordinary and all are disclosed. The roundel is a mood rather than a specification.
No doctor is named on the label, on the listing, or 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; nobody is named in it, no institution is named beside it, and we have published it captioned as exactly that rather than invent a clinician.
Four small marks carried through from the front panel onto the listing: craving control and satiety, energy production from fat, healthy weight management, and the headline metabolic and appetite support. Each is assessed one at a time on our claims page.
It means the factory is listed with the FDA as a facility that makes food or supplements. Registration is a filing. It is not an inspection result, not an approval, and not a statement about any particular product made there.
The FDA is direct on the underlying point: it does not have the authority to approve dietary supplements before they are marketed. No supplement on any shelf anywhere is FDA approved, and any page telling you otherwise is wrong.
There is a second gap specific to this product, and it is smaller than usual. The label does print a full distributor line — Gex Corporation LLP, PO Box 12730, Ogden, UT 84404, with a telephone number and an email address — which is more than most labels on this desk manage. What it does not name is a manufacturing facility. So the badge still points at a factory nobody has identified, but at least there is somebody to ask.
We never write FDA approved on this site, and the phrase does not appear on this label either, which is to the label's credit. There is a second point worth making here, because this product contains a stimulant. Registration says nothing about the amount of caffeine in a capsule, about whether a second ingredient adds more, or about whether the total is disclosed. It is a statement about a building, not about a formula.
Made in an FDA-registered facility is accurate and means the factory is on a list. FDA approved is not accurate for any dietary supplement. The difference is not pedantry — it is the difference between a filing cabinet and a review of evidence.
Good Manufacturing Practice is a set of rules about how a product is made, recorded, traced and kept clean. It covers process rather than outcome.
A GMP-compliant factory can lawfully and competently manufacture a capsule at any dose at all. That is worth holding onto here: the process may be impeccable and the 65 mg of HCA is still 65 mg of HCA.
No certifying body is named on the badge and no certificate was published to us, so we cannot tell you who assessed the facility or when. That is a gap in the evidence rather than an accusation.
The useful summary: GMP is about how carefully the powder was handled, not about how much of it there is or whether that amount does anything.
| Claim | Evidence supplied | Our position |
|---|---|---|
| 60-day guarantee | Stated in the brief | Confirmed as a term |
| Vegetarian | The printed other-ingredients line | Supported by the panel |
| The dagger footnote | Read off the panel | Correct — no DV exists for any of the three |
| Serving size and servings | Printed, and matching the front panel | Confirmed |
| Three standardisations | Printed on the panel | Checkable — they convert into real compounds |
| Declared caffeine | 138 mg, printed | Disclosed, with a Contains Caffeine statement |
| Total caffeine | Not calculable | The largest gap on this label |
| FDA-registered facility | None | Unverified. No facility named |
| GMP certified | None | Unverified. No certifying body named |
| Made in the USA, on the label | The printed wording | Correctly qualified — with globally sourced ingredients |
| Made in the USA, the roundel | None | A broken graphic reading MANUFACTURE IN twice |
| GMO free | None | No certifying body, no certificate |
| Dairy free | None | Plausible from the panel, unverified |
| Natural ingredients | None | No regulatory definition exists |
| Doctor formulated | None | No doctor is named anywhere |
| Certificate SOD-6271-26-SO | None | A reference, not a document |
The asset pack for this product contains photographs of identifiable people presented as customers, alongside a review block that the same pack describes, in its own words, as layout copy only.
Putting those two things together would mean attaching invented praise to real faces. So none of the following appears anywhere on this site — not as reviews, not as illustration, and not as decoration.
What this costs us: the most persuasive material in the pack. It is still the only defensible call, and we would rather show you the list of what we left out than quietly use it.
Because on a product you cannot otherwise check, the care taken over the parts you can see is one of the few signals left to read.
The signal here is better than mixed, which is not a sentence this desk writes often. The pack contains a photograph of the actual wrap label at a resolution high enough to read every line of the Supplement Facts panel. That single file is worth more than the other ninety-three together, because it is the only one that can be checked.
What the pack is thick with is mood. Knees, hinges, bones, ropes, keys, couples dancing, a man playing soccer, a woman gardening — dozens of files whose job is to make the product feel like movement. That is ordinary marketing and none of it is checkable.
Nineteen files we have deliberately left out of this site altogether. They are photographs of named individuals presented as customers and as a formulator, and the pack's own precautions state that the reviews, star scores and order counts in it are layout copy only. Publishing a face beside placeholder feedback would be inventing a person, so we have published the list of what we excluded instead.
The summary is unusual for this desk: a company that did the hard part properly and then surrounded it with the same stock atmosphere as everybody else.
This is the mark we take most seriously, because it is the one that borrows authority from a profession.
No doctor is named on the label. None is named on the listing. None appears anywhere in the material we were given. There is no specialty, no institution, no credential and no signature.
We have not invented one. Every site in this series carries the same rule: never invent a doctor, a reviewer, a testimonial or a study. A credential you cannot check is not a credential, and a made-up one is a lie about a real profession.
If a clinician did formulate this product, naming them would cost nothing and would be worth a great deal. Until then the badge is an assertion with nothing behind it.
We read the Supplement Facts panel off the supplied label image at native resolution and transcribed every line of it, rather than retyping a list from the marketing copy.
We added the capsule up. 211 plus 100 plus 36 is 347 milligrams of declared ingredient per serving. That figure appears nowhere on the label; we calculated it, and it is the single most useful number on this site.
We counted the ingredients twice, once from the brief and once from the panel itself, and got six and ten. The brief names six; the panel adds four minerals and a vitamin the brief never mentions. The panel wins, and the difference is published rather than quietly resolved.
And we read every source in our reference list rather than citing it. Where a source reported its own limitations — as the green coffee reviewers do when they criticise the methodological quality of every study they analysed — we quoted the limitation too.
We publish no test we did not see, no certificate we were not given, and no expert we cannot name. Where the honest answer is that nothing was supplied, the page says exactly that, even where a vaguer sentence would have sold more bottles.
No dietary supplement is. The FDA states that it “does not have the authority to approve dietary supplements before they are marketed”. 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.
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 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.
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.
One bottle is 30 capsules at one a day, so a bottle is exactly thirty days and the front of the label says so. The 60-day guarantee runs from purchase, not from delivery, and the price is shown at checkout.
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