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Garlic 5000

by Protocol For Life Balance · tablet or pill · 90 tablets

  • On the market (NIH)
  • UPC 7 07359 11814 0
  • DSLD label 23671
  • Serving 1 tablet

Garlic 5000 by Protocol For Life Balance lists 2 ingredients, 2 with an amount per serving of 1 tablet, such as 500 mg of odor-controlled garlic. Its current label entered the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database on July 25, 2013.

What is in Garlic 5000?

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

Garlic 5000: Supplement Facts rows against the market (DSLD label 23671, January 2026 release)
IngredientAmount% DVAmong products listing it
odor-controlled Garlic500 mgGarlic in Garlic 5000 against 1,075 products500 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 50 mg to 500 mg, the median 200 mg.500 mg

Higher than 71% of 1,075 products listing garlic (median 200 mg).

min. 5,000 mcg Allicinmin. 5,000 mcg Allicin Note: potential per tablet<= 5,000 mcg

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database, label 23671 (entered July 25, 2013), 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
SUGGESTED USAGE: As a dietary supplement, take one tablet daily, or as directed by your healthcare practitioner.
Warnings
CAUTIONS/INTERACTIONS: No interactions or contraindications are known with this product at the suggested level of intake.
Do not use this product if you have a known allergy/hypersensitivity to garlic, any of its constituents, or to other members of the Liliaceae (lily) family, including hyacinth, tulip, onion, leek, and chives.
Garlic may interact with blood thinning medications, isoniazid, protease inhibitors, and anti-retroviral drugs. If you are taking any of these medications, or any other prescription medication, consult your healthcare practitioner before taking this product.
Produced in a GMP facility that processes other ingredients containing these allergens.
Do not eat Packet.
Allergens and what it does not contain
Not manufactured with yeast, wheat, gluten, soy, milk, egg, fish, shellfish or tree nut ingredients.
Storage
Store in a cool, dry place after opening.

Source: label statements in DSLD label 23671.

What else is on the label?

Other ingredients: Cellulose, Enteric Coating, Croscarmellose Sodium, Stearic Acid, Magnesium Stearate, Silica.

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

How many labels does Garlic 5000 have?

2 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 23671 (current) Entered July 25, 2013 · on the market · 90 tablets · UPC 7 07359 11814 0
  2. Label 15144 Entered April 25, 2013 · off the market June 25, 2013 · 90 tablets · UPC 7 07359 11814 0

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(R) (manufacturer, distributor), Bloomingdale, IL. All Protocol For Life Balance products.

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