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Chickweed

by Nature's Sunshine · capsule · 100 capsules

  • On the market (NIH)
  • UPC 0 99904 00220 3
  • DSLD label 278045
  • Serving 2 capsules
  • 50 servings

Chickweed by Nature's Sunshine lists one ingredient: 750 mg of chickweed per serving of 2 capsules. Its current label entered the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database on October 24, 2022.

What is in Chickweed?

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).

Chickweed: Supplement Facts rows against the market (DSLD label 278045, January 2026 release)
IngredientAmount% DVAmong products listing it
Chickweed750 mgChickweed in Chickweed against 38 products750 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 170 mg to 995.75 mg, the median 450 mg.750 mg

Higher than 61% of 38 products listing chickweed (median 450 mg). Per day at the most servings: 1,500 mg.

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database, label 278045 (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?

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

Source: label statements in DSLD label 278045.

What else is on the label?

Other ingredients: Gelatin, Water.

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 Chickweed have?

3 labels are on file under this name since November 21, 2019: other sizes, label designs and reformulations. The current one leads this page.

  1. Label 278045 (current) Entered October 24, 2022 · on the market · 100 capsules · UPC 0 99904 00220 3
  2. Label 277249 Entered September 22, 2022 · on the market · 100 capsules · UPC 0 99904 00220 3
  3. Label 209982 Entered November 21, 2019 · off the market January 21, 2022 · 100 capsules · UPC 0 99904 00220 3

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, UT. All Nature's Sunshine products.

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