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Calcium Pyruvate

by Allergy Research Group · capsule · 90 vegetarian capsules

  • On the market (NIH)
  • UPC 7 13947 72950 6
  • DSLD label 233251
  • Serving 1 to 2 capsules; amounts per 2 capsules
  • 45 servings

Calcium Pyruvate by Allergy Research Group lists 2 ingredients, 2 with an amount per serving of 2 capsules, such as 280 mg of calcium and 1.2 mg of pyruvate. Its current label entered the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database on August 23, 2020.

What is in Calcium Pyruvate?

Each row as the label prints it, per serving of 2 capsules. 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).

Calcium Pyruvate: Supplement Facts rows against the market (DSLD label 233251, January 2026 release)
IngredientAmount% DVAmong products listing it
Calciumas Calcium PyruvateCalcium (Form: as Calcium Pyruvate)280 mg22%Calcium in Calcium Pyruvate against 17,831 products280 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 50 mg to 252 mg, the median 115 mg.DV 1,300 mgUL 2,500 mg280 mg

Higher than 76% of 17,831 products listing calcium (median 115 mg). Per day at the most servings: 840 mg.

Pyruvate1.2 mg

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database, label 233251 (entered August 23, 2020), 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 1 to 3 servings 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?

2 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
Suggested Use As a dietary supplement, 1 or 2 capsules one to three times daily, or as directed by a healthcare practitioner.
Warnings
Warning: Consuming this product can expose you to lead which is known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov/food
Storage
Keep in a cool, dry place, tightly capped.

Source: label statements in DSLD label 233251.

What else is on the label?

Other ingredients: Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, L-Leucine.

How many labels does Calcium Pyruvate have?

8 labels are on file under this name since April 25, 2013: other sizes, label designs and reformulations. The current one leads this page.

  1. Label 233251 (current) Entered August 23, 2020 · on the market · 90 vegetarian capsules · UPC 7 13947 72950 6
  2. Label 233250 Entered August 23, 2020 · on the market · 90 vegetarian capsules · UPC 7 13947 72950 6
  3. Label 207145 Entered September 24, 2019 · off the market August 4, 2020 · 90 vegetarian capsules · UPC 7 13947 72950 6
  4. Label 183982 Entered January 7, 2019 · off the market August 4, 2020 · 90 vegetarian capsules · UPC 7 13947 72950 6
  5. Label 79001 Entered September 21, 2017 · off the market July 19, 2018 · 90 vegetarian capsules · UPC 7 13947 72950 6
  6. Label 78998 Entered September 21, 2017 · off the market June 26, 2019 · 90 vegetarian capsules · UPC 7 13947 72950 6
  7. Label 54440 Entered January 25, 2016 · off the market July 31, 2017 · 90 vegetarian capsules · UPC 7 13947 72950 6
  8. Label 20170 Entered April 25, 2013 · off the market November 19, 2015 · 90 vegetarian capsules · UPC 7 13947 72950 6

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

Who makes it?

The label names Allergy Research Group (distributor), South Salt Lake, UT. All Allergy Research Group products.

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