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Mega Lactophilus

by DC · capsule · 90 vegetable capsules

  • On the market (NIH)
  • DSLD label 309909
  • Serving 2 vegetable capsules
  • 45 servings

Mega Lactophilus by DC lists 5 ingredients, 1 with an amount per serving of 2 vegetable capsules, such as 200 mg of citrus pectin; 4 sit inside a blend without their own amounts. Its current label entered the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database on August 22, 2024.

What is in Mega Lactophilus?

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

Mega Lactophilus: Supplement Facts rows against the market (DSLD label 309909, January 2026 release)
IngredientAmount% DVAmong products listing it
Proprietary Blend of CulturesContains 6 billion active cells (including the naturally occuring metabolic product by Lactobacilli) at the time of manufacture.80 mg
Lactobacillus acidophilusin the blend, no amount given
Bifidobacterium animalis lactisin the blend, no amount given
Lactobacillus helveticusin the blend, no amount given
Lactobacillus salivariusin the blend, no amount given
Citrus Pectin200 mgPectin in Mega Lactophilus against 526 products200 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 20 mg to 250 mg, the median 86 mg.200 mg

Higher than 66% of 526 products listing pectin (median 86 mg).

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database, label 309909 (entered August 22, 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; 4 ingredients sit inside a blend, so their amounts cannot be compared.

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?

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
Directions: As a dietary supplement, take 2 vegetable capsules daily, preferably with a meal.
Warnings
Tamper Evident: Do not use this product if imprinted foil seal under cap is broken or missing.
Keep out of reach of children.
Caution: If you are pregnant or nursing do not take this product.
No artificial color, flavor or sweetener, no preservatives, no sugar, no dairy, no starch, no soy, no wheat, no fish and is sodium free. Non-GMO
Allergens and what it does not contain
Gluten free
Storage
Keep tightly closed. Refrigerate after opening.

Source: label statements in DSLD label 309909.

What else is on the label?

Other ingredients: Cellulose, Magnesium Stearate, L-Ascorbic Acid, Silica.

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

How many labels does Mega Lactophilus have?

7 labels are on file under this name since March 25, 2021: other sizes, label designs and reformulations. The current one leads this page.

  1. Label 309909 (current) Entered August 22, 2024 · on the market · 90 vegetable capsules
  2. Label 266602 Entered April 11, 2022 · on the market · 90 capsules
  3. Label 266606 Entered February 23, 2022 · on the market · 250 vegetable capsules
  4. Label 266605 Entered February 23, 2022 · on the market · 250 vegetable capsules
  5. Label 266603 Entered February 23, 2022 · on the market · 90 capsules
  6. Label 266601 Entered February 23, 2022 · off the market September 12, 2022 · 90 vegetable capsules
  7. Label 245495 Entered March 25, 2021 · on the market · N/A

DSLD also links this label to: Mark XV (image difference, same product), Mark XV (package size difference, same product), Mark XV (image difference, same product), Mark XV (package size difference, same product), Mark XV (image difference, same product), Mark XV (package size difference, same product), Mark XV (image difference, same product), Mark XV (package size difference, same product).

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

Who makes it?

The label names Dee Cee Laboratories, Inc. (distributor), White House, TN. All DC products.

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