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NIH DSLD · catalog reference · rebuilt 2026-08-14

Dietary Supplement Label Statistics

A single citable snapshot of what manufacturers declare in the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database: label counts, on-market share, nutrient-family density, and catalog leaders. Filing facts only, never dosing advice.

113,539
DSLD labels
57.7%
Still on-market
4,407
Brands
4,622
Ingredient groups

Explore rankings, nutrient families, or compare two labels.

What this page answers

This rebuild holds 113,539 NIH DSLD labels across 4,407 brands and 4,622 ingredient groups. Botanical dominates family mention density (192,902), while BulkSupplements.com leads brand catalog size (4,324). On-market share is 57.7% of labels, a shelf-status fact, not an efficacy score.

113,539
labels in corpus
57.7%
still on-market
192,902
Botanical mentions
4,324
BulkSupplements.com labels

All totals are computed live from this portal's NIH DSLD rebuild. Density and catalog size are not safety, purity, sales, or efficacy scores.

Key findings

Short, attributable one-liners computed from the same live queries as the charts below. Safe to quote with the Cite this page block.

  1. 113,539 dietary-supplement labels sit in this PlainVitamins rebuild of the NIH DSLD.
  2. 57.7% of those labels (65,490) are still marked on-market in the source file; the rest are historical filings.
  3. Botanical leads nutrient-family label mentions with 192,902 across 1,937 ingredient groups (catalog density, not quality).
  4. Cellulose is the most-listed ingredient group (38,497 labels); fillers and Supplement Facts rows often outrank actives.
  5. Among active ingredients, Magnesium leads with 27,686 label mentions.
  6. BulkSupplements.com holds the largest brand catalog here (4,324 labels; 3,363 still on-market).
  7. Botanical (DSLD A1306) is the most common product-type code with 19,996 labels.
  8. Labels with an ingredient count average 11.7 declared rows per product in this rebuild.

Still on-market share of 113,539 DSLD labels (65,490 with off_market = 0). Historical filings stay in the catalog.

0%100%57.7% on-market
Still on-market share of 113,539 DSLD labels (65,490 with off_market = 0). Historical filings stay in the catalog.

Nutrient families by label mentions

1. Botanical1929022. Other1909193. Mineral1569184. Vitamin1551535. Non-nutrient/non-bot...1311496. Fat855507. Fiber589378. Sugar45080
Top 8 NIH nutrient families by summed ingredient-group product_count. Catalog frequency only.

Product-type codes by label count

1. Botanical199962. Other Combinations199833. Non-Nutrient199814. Vitamin123475. Botanical with Nutri...117796. Amino Acid & Protein93637. Fat & Fatty Acid85428. Mineral8184
Top 8 DSLD product_type_code values in this rebuild across 9 named type buckets.

By the numbers

65,490
labels still on-market
18
nutrient families mapped
11.7
avg ingredient rows / label
9
named product-type buckets

How these totals are computed

Every figure on this page is a SQL aggregate against PlainVitamins' local rebuild of the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database. Label counts come from products; on-market share uses off_market = 0; brand and ingredient-group ladders use the brands and ingredient_groups tables; nutrient-family density sums each group's product_count by category. None of these totals are hand-typed, and none score quality, purity, sales, or medical suitability.

Denominators stay visible next to every percentage. When a brand leads catalog size but trails on-market share, both numbers are shown so a reader can see the reorder. Full source handling lives on the methodology page.

Source: NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) On-market means the DSLD has not flagged the label as discontinued in this rebuild.

Use the data

Download the nutrient-family rollup behind these figures. The CSV is generated from the same live database this page queries.

Download nutrient-family CSV

Reading these numbers

Catalog density answers how often something is declared, not whether anyone should take it.

  • On-market share and brand catalog size reorder independently. Check both before treating a big brand as currently listed. Brand rankings
  • Nutrient-family mention totals sum ingredient-group product_count. A family can lead filings without leading active-nutrient ranks. Browse families
  • Compare two products or brands when you need a label-declared difference, not a national average. Open compare

Figures are computed from the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database rebuild used by PlainVitamins (as of 2026-08-14). Counts describe label filings, not lab-verified contents, sales, safety, or medical suitability.

Every figure on PlainVitamins is rendered directly from the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD), no number is typed in by an editor. National totals on this page are live aggregates from the same NIH DSLD rebuild; no headline figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-14.