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Slippery Elm Bark Powder

by Vital Nutrients · powder · 175 grams

  • On the market (NIH)
  • UPC 6 93465 25311 3
  • DSLD label 305163
  • Serving 2.5 g (1 Rounded Teaspoon)
  • 70 servings

Slippery Elm Bark Powder by Vital Nutrients lists one ingredient: 2,500 mg of slippery elm, powder per serving of 2.5 g. Its current label entered the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database on February 22, 2024.

What is in Slippery Elm Bark Powder?

Each row as the label prints it, per serving of 2.5 g. 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).

Slippery Elm Bark Powder: Supplement Facts rows against the market (DSLD label 305163, January 2026 release)
IngredientAmount% DVAmong products listing it
Slippery Elm, Powderas Ulmus fulva, Powder2,500 mgSlippery Elm in Slippery Elm Bark Powder against 232 products2,500 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 50 mg to 300 mg, the median 150 mg.2,500 mg

Higher than 98% of 232 products listing slippery elm (median 150 mg).

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database, label 305163 (entered February 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?

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 2,500 mg of slippery elm is higher than 98% of the 232 slippery elm products that print an amount; 3 list more.

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
Recommendations Take 1 rounded teaspoon 1 time 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 305163.

How many labels does Slippery Elm Bark Powder have?

5 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 305163 (current) Entered February 22, 2024 · on the market · 175 grams · UPC 6 93465 25311 3
  2. Label 182569 Entered October 25, 2018 · on the market · 175 grams · UPC 6 93465 25311 3
  3. Label 56513 Entered February 23, 2016 · off the market April 16, 2018 · 175 grams · UPC 6 93465 25311 3
  4. Label 27583 Entered November 25, 2013 · off the market January 27, 2016 · 175 grams · UPC 6 93465 25311 3
  5. Label 5971 Entered March 23, 2012 · off the market September 13, 2013 · 175 grams · UPC 6 93465 25311 3

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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