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Vitamin C 500 Complex

by ProCaps Laboratories · capsule · 360 easy-to-swallow capsules

  • Off the market since February 2025 (NIH)
  • UPC 184029
  • DSLD label 320300
  • Serving 1 capsule
  • 360 servings

Vitamin C 500 Complex by ProCaps Laboratories lists 3 ingredients, 3 with an amount per serving of 1 capsule, such as 500 mg of vitamin C, 50 mg of calcium and 50 mg of citrus bioflavonoid complex. Its current label entered the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database on November 22, 2024.

What is in Vitamin C 500 Complex?

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

Vitamin C 500 Complex: Supplement Facts rows against the market (DSLD label 320300, January 2026 release)
IngredientAmount% DVAmong products listing it
Vitamin Cas Calcium Ascorbate, Calcium Palmitate500 mg556%Vitamin C in Vitamin C 500 Complex against 18,583 products500 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 60 mg to 270 mg, the median 100 mg.DV 90 mgUL 2,000 mg500 mg

Higher than 81% of 18,583 products listing vitamin C (median 100 mg).

Calciumas Calcium Ascorbate50 mg4%Calcium in Vitamin C 500 Complex against 17,831 products50 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 50 mg to 252 mg, the median 115 mg.DV 1,300 mgUL 2,500 mg50 mg

72% of 17,831 products listing calcium give more (median 115 mg).

Citrus Bioflavonoid Complexas Bioflavonoids(fruit) standardized to 80% bioflavonoids50 mgFlavonoid in Vitamin C 500 Complex against 2,343 products50 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 25 mg to 100 mg, the median 50 mg.50 mg

46% of 2,343 products listing flavonoid give more (median 50 mg).

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database, label 320300 (entered November 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.

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 Use Consume one capsule daily. Increase your intake based upon your needs and as guided by your health care provider.
Allergens and what it does not contain
Contains no additives or common allergens Contains no milk, soy, yeast, corn, wheat, gluten, sodium, salt, sugar, fat, cholesterol, color, preservative, common allergens, genetically modified (GMO) ingredients or manufacturing additives.

Source: label statements in DSLD label 320300.

What else is on the label?

Other ingredients: Gelatin.

How many labels does Vitamin C 500 Complex have?

6 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 320300 (current) Entered November 22, 2024 · off the market February 14, 2025 · 360 easy-to-swallow capsules · UPC 184029
  2. Label 248602 Entered May 22, 2021 · off the market December 13, 2023 · 360 easy-to-swallow capsules · UPC 184029
  3. Label 220464 Entered May 22, 2020 · off the market March 19, 2021 · 360 easy-to-swallow capsules · UPC 184029
  4. Label 57364 Entered March 24, 2016 · off the market April 2, 2020 · 360 easy-to-swallow capsules
  5. Label 30251 Entered March 25, 2014 · off the market January 26, 2016 · 360 easy to swallow capsules
  6. Label 4686 Entered January 25, 2012 · off the market January 1, 2012 · 360 easy to swallow capsules

DSLD also links this label to: Vitamin C 500 Complex (image 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 ProCaps Labs (manufacturer), Henderson, NV. All ProCaps Laboratories products.

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