Bee Propolis Extract

by The Vitamin Shoppe · capsule · 300 capsules

  • On the market (NIH)
  • UPC 7 66536 01182 7
  • DSLD label 55395
  • Serving 1 capsule

Bee Propolis Extract by The Vitamin Shoppe lists one ingredient: 250 mg of bee propolis extract per serving of 1 capsule. Its current label entered the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database on January 25, 2016.

What is in Bee Propolis Extract?

Each row as the label prints it, per serving of 1 capsule. The capsule beside an amount places it among every product in the NIH database that lists the same ingredient: the bar is the middle half of their amounts, the line in it the median, the whiskers the 10th and 90th percentiles; the green tick is the FDA Daily Value and the red dashed tick the adult upper limit (IOM).

Bee Propolis Extract: Supplement Facts rows against the market (DSLD label 55395, January 2026 release)
IngredientAmount% DVAmong products listing it
Bee Propolis extractBee Propolis extract Note: 2:1 (equivalent to 500 mg Bee Propolis Powder)250 mgPropolis in Bee Propolis Extract against 260 products250 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 50 mg to 400 mg, the median 150 mg.250 mg

Higher than 61% of 260 products listing propolis (median 150 mg).

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database, label 55395 (entered January 25, 2016), version 9.4.0. See the label on DSLD. Amounts are what the maker printed; DSLD does not test products. Daily Values: the FDA's Daily Value page.

Is that a lot?

Every amount on this label with a position sits within the middle 80% of the products that list the same ingredient.

The NIH database records one serving a day from the label's directions; its % Daily Values are for adults and children 4 or more years of age. The directions as printed are further down this page.

The Tolerable Upper Intake Level is the most of a nutrient per day, from food, water and supplements together, that is likely to pose no risk for almost all adults (Institute of Medicine, 2011). It does not apply under medical supervision. This page compares labels; it is not medical advice.

Sources: amounts from the DSLD label; Daily Values from 21 CFR 101.9(c)(8)(iv); adult upper limits from the Institute of Medicine's DRI summary tables (2011). How positions are computed.

Which products have the closest formulas?

6 products list the very same ingredients; the nearest amounts come first.

Source: ingredient lists of every product's current label in DSLD (version 9.4.0); similarity weights each shared ingredient by how rare it is.

What does the label say about taking it?

Quoted from the label as DSLD transcribed it: the maker's words, including any claim about what the product does, which the FDA has not evaluated and PlainVitamins does not endorse.

Directions
DIRECTIONS: As a dietary supplement, take one (1) capsule daily, preferably with a meal.
Warnings
WARNING: Do not use if you are allergic or hypersensitive to bee products.
KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN.
TAMPER EVIDENT Do not use if outer seal is broken or missing.
Allergens and what it does not contain
gluten free dairy free soy free nut free
Does not contain: Yeast, Corn, Wheat, Gluten, Sugar, Salt, Soy, Dairy, Citrus, Fish, Preservatives, Artificial Colors or Flavors.
Storage
STORE IN A COOL, DRY PLACE.

Source: label statements in DSLD label 55395.

What else is on the label?

Other ingredients: Rice Flour, Gelatin, Bee Propolis powder, Water.

How many labels does Bee Propolis Extract have?

2 labels are on file under this name since January 25, 2016: other sizes, label designs and reformulations. The current one leads this page.

  1. Label 55395 (current) Entered January 25, 2016 · on the market · 300 capsules · UPC 7 66536 01182 7
  2. Label 55393 Entered January 25, 2016 · on the market · 100 capsules · UPC 7 66536 01181 0

Source: DSLD label entry and market events, version 9.4.0 (labels entered through September 25, 2025).

Who makes it?

The label names Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. (distributor), Secaucus, NJ. All The Vitamin Shoppe products.

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