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CurcuFresh

by Protocol For Life Balance · capsule · 60 veg capsules

  • On the market (NIH)
  • UPC 7 07359 14937 3
  • DSLD label 326429
  • Serving 1 veg capsule
  • 60 servings

CurcuFresh by Protocol For Life Balance lists 2 ingredients, 2 with an amount per serving of 1 veg capsule, such as 500 mg of turmeric juice, powder. Its current label entered the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database on March 25, 2025.

What is in CurcuFresh?

Each row as the label prints it, per serving of 1 veg 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).

CurcuFresh: Supplement Facts rows against the market (DSLD label 326429, January 2026 release)
IngredientAmount% DVAmong products listing it
Turmeric Juice, Powderas CurcuFRESHstandardized500 mgTurmeric in CurcuFresh against 2,369 products500 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 50 mg to 500 mg, the median 150 mg.500 mg

Higher than 72% of 2,369 products listing turmeric (median 150 mg). Per day at the most servings: 1,000 mg.

Total Curcuminoids20 mgCurcuminoid in CurcuFresh against 309 products20 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 40 mg to 300 mg, the median 100 mg.20 mg

91% of 309 products listing curcuminoid give more (median 100 mg). Per day at the most servings: 40 mg.

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database, label 326429 (entered March 25, 2025), version 9.4.0. See the label on DSLD or its label image (PDF). Amounts are what the maker printed; DSLD does not test products. Daily Values: the FDA's Daily Value page.

Is that a lot?

The rows in the top or bottom tenth of the products that list the same ingredient, and any above the adult upper limit at the most servings a day the directions give:

  • 91% of the 309 products that print an amount of curcuminoid list more than its 20 mg of total curcuminoids (filed by NIH under curcuminoid) (median 100 mg).

The NIH database records 1 to 2 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?

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
Suggested usage: Take 1 capsule 1 to 2 times daily with food, or as directed by your healthcare practitioner.
Warnings
Cautions/interactions: Curcumin may interact with anticoagulant and antiplatelet medications. If you are pregnant/nursing, taking these medications, or have a history of liver, gall bladder or gastrointestinal problems, consult your healthcare practitioner prior to use.
Not manufactured with yeast, wheat, gluten, soy, corn, milk, egg, fish, shellfish or tree nut ingredients. Produced in a GMP facility that processes other ingredients containing these allergens.
Allergens and what it does not contain
Non-GMO
Not manufactured with yeast, wheat, gluten, soy, corn, milk, egg, fish, shellfish or tree nut ingredients.

Source: label statements in DSLD label 326429.

What else is on the label?

Other ingredients: Hypromellose, Rice Flour, Stearic Acid, Silicon Dioxide, Magnesium Stearate.

How many labels does CurcuFresh have?

2 labels are on file under this name since April 25, 2017: other sizes, label designs and reformulations. The current one leads this page.

  1. Label 326429 (current) Entered March 25, 2025 · on the market · 60 veg capsules · UPC 7 07359 14937 3
  2. Label 73519 Entered April 25, 2017 · off the market May 26, 2023 · 60 veg capsules · UPC 7 07359 14937 3

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

Who makes it?

The label names Protocol For Life Balance (manufacturer, distributor), Bloomingdale, IL. All Protocol For Life Balance products.

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