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Essential Source
Essential Source has 44 on-market SKUs in the DSLD, first entered 2011-10-26. 65.9% of its products declare at least one proprietary blend, and 21.4% of all its all-time SKUs are now off-market.
44
on-market SKUs
65.9%
with a blend
0.0%
gummies
21.4%
off-market churn
Report card
- Median dose adequacy (elemental dose ÷ studied low dose, pooled across compounds): 0.0483
- % with a third-party certification statement (USP/NSF/Informed Sport/GMP, as asserted on label): 11.4%
- Average excipient count per product: 5.2
- First entry: 2011-10-26 · Latest entry: 2024-09-25
- Mineral/vitamin rows by quality tier: tier 1: 67.1%, tier 2: 8.9%, tier 3: 2.5%, unrated: 21.5%
Compared with the median brand
Context for the numbers above: the same measures for the median of the 1,430 brands with at least 10 on-market products. A difference from the median is a description, not a grade; a specialty brand can sit far from the median for good reasons.
| Measure | Essential Source | Median brand |
|---|---|---|
| Products with a proprietary blend | 65.9% | 26.7% |
| Products in an exact Formula Twins cluster | 0% | 10% |
| Products declaring a dose above an adult UL | 2.3% | 0% |
| Products listing a synthetic FD&C dye | 0% | 0% |
| Products listing titanium dioxide | 0% | 0% |
| Gummies | 0% | 0% |
| Products with a certification statement | 11.4% | 0% |
| Average excipients per product | 5.2 | 4.5 |
| All-time SKUs now off-market | 21.4% | 15.4% |
What it sells
- Capsule: 14 (31.8%)
- Liquid: 13 (29.5%)
- Other (e.g. tea bag): 8 (18.2%)
- Powder: 4 (9.1%)
Compounds declared most often
- Probiotics (Total CFU): 12 products
- Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin): 11 products
- Folate (Vitamin B9): 9 products
- Biotin (Vitamin B7): 9 products
- Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine): 8 products
- Niacin (Vitamin B3): 8 products