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Echinacea

by Nature's Sunshine · capsule · 180 capsules

  • On the market (NIH)
  • UPC 0 99904 00263 0
  • DSLD label 278075
  • Serving 2 capsules
  • 90 servings

Echinacea by Nature's Sunshine lists 2 ingredients, 2 with an amount per serving of 2 capsules, such as 400 mg of echinacea and 400 mg of echinacea. Its current label entered the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database on October 24, 2022.

What is in Echinacea?

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).

Echinacea: Supplement Facts rows against the market (DSLD label 278075, January 2026 release)
IngredientAmount% DVAmong products listing it
Echinacea400 mgEchinacea purpurea in Echinacea against 484 products800 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 50 mg to 400 mg, the median 200 mg.800 mg

Higher than 92% of 484 products listing echinacea purpurea (median 200 mg). Per day at the most servings: 2,400 mg.

Echinacea400 mg

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database, label 278075 (entered October 24, 2022), 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:

  • Its 800 mg of echinacea purpurea (2 rows of the label added together) is higher than 92% of the 484 echinacea purpurea products that print an amount; 36 list more.

The NIH database records 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?

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
Recommended Use: Take 2 capsules with a meal three times daily.
Warnings
Do not use if inner seal is missing or damaged.

Source: label statements in DSLD label 278075.

What else is on the label?

Other ingredients: Capsule, Vegetable Magnesium Stearate, Silicon Dioxide.

Seals and symbols as the label prints them (the maker's; a certifier's own list confirms a seal): Ko Pareve (Kosher).

How many labels does Echinacea have?

3 labels are on file under this name since January 25, 2012: other sizes, label designs and reformulations. The current one leads this page.

  1. Label 278075 (current) Entered October 24, 2022 · on the market · 180 capsules · UPC 0 99904 00263 0
  2. Label 205463 Entered August 23, 2019 · off the market January 21, 2022 · 180 capsules · UPC 0 99904 00263 0
  3. Label 4472 Entered January 25, 2012 · off the market February 27, 2019 · 180 capsules · UPC 0 99904 00263 0

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

Who makes it?

The label names Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc. (manufacturer), Spanish Fork, Utah. All Nature's Sunshine products.

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