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DGL Powder

by Vital Nutrients · powder · 120 grams

  • On the market (NIH)
  • UPC 6 93465 24811 9
  • DSLD label 304975
  • Serving 0.13 teaspoon doses (1/8 Teaspoon)
  • 400 servings

DGL Powder by Vital Nutrients lists one ingredient: 300 mg of licorice, deglycyrrhizinated, powder per serving of 0.13 teaspoon doses. Its current label entered the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database on January 24, 2024.

What is in DGL Powder?

Each row as the label prints it, per serving of 0.13 teaspoon doses. 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).

DGL Powder: Supplement Facts rows against the market (DSLD label 304975, January 2026 release)
IngredientAmount% DVAmong products listing it
Licorice, Deglycyrrhizinated, Powder300 mgLicorice in DGL Powder against 888 products300 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 42 mg to 300 mg, the median 100 mg.300 mg

Higher than 74% of 888 products listing licorice (median 100 mg). Per day at the most servings: 600 mg.

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database, label 304975 (entered January 24, 2024), 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?

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 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
Recommendations Take 1/8 of a teaspoon before meals once or twice daily, or as directed by your healthcare professional.
Warnings
Keep out of reach of children
Use only if safety seal is intact
Warning If pregnant, consult your physician before taking.
Inner seal may lift off when cap is removed. Seal integrity is maintained until cap is removed.
Allergens and what it does not contain
Excludes coatings, binders, gluten (wheat, rye, barley), milk/dairy (casein, whey), soy protein, egg protein, sugar. Verified by independent testing
Storage
Store sealed in a cool dry place

Source: label statements in DSLD label 304975.

How many labels does DGL Powder have?

4 labels are on file under this name since March 23, 2012: other sizes, label designs and reformulations. The current one leads this page.

  1. Label 304975 (current) Entered January 24, 2024 · on the market · 120 grams · UPC 6 93465 24811 9
  2. Label 182241 Entered October 25, 2018 · off the market December 7, 2022 · 120 grams · UPC 6 93465 24811 9
  3. Label 56645 Entered February 23, 2016 · off the market April 16, 2018 · 120 grams · UPC 6 93465 24811 9
  4. Label 6933 Entered March 23, 2012 · off the market January 26, 2016 · 120 g · UPC 6 93465 24811 9

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

Who makes it?

The label names Vital Nutrients (manufacturer), Middleton, CT. All Vital Nutrients products.

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