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Zinc

by Higher Nature · tablet or pill · 90 tablets

  • On the market (NIH)
  • UPC 5 031013 101083
  • DSLD label 245936
  • Serving 1 tablet
  • 90 servings

Zinc by Higher Nature lists 2 ingredients, 2 with an amount per serving of 1 tablet, such as 20 mg of zinc and 1,250 mcg of copper. Its current label entered the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database on June 23, 2021.

What is in Zinc?

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).

Zinc: Supplement Facts rows against the market (DSLD label 245936, January 2026 release)
IngredientAmount% DVAmong products listing it
Zinc20 mg200%Zinc in Zinc against 13,186 products20 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 5 mg to 15 mg, the median 11 mg.DV 11 mgUL 40 mg20 mg

Higher than 79% of 13,186 products listing zinc (median 11 mg).

Copper1,250 mcg125%Copper in Zinc against 6,468 products1.25 mg per serving; the middle half of products list 0.5 mg to 2 mg, the median 1 mg.DV 0.9 mgUL 10 mg1.25 mg

Higher than 61% of 6,468 products listing copper (median 1 mg).

Source: NIH ODS Dietary Supplement Label Database, label 245936 (entered June 23, 2021), 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
Directions: Take 1 tablet a day with food. Do not exceed recommended daily intake. A daily multivitamin is also recommended. Food supplements should not be used as a substitute for a varied and balanced diet and healthy lifestyle.
Warnings
Food supplements should not be used as a substitute for a varied and balanced diet and healthy lifestyle.
Storage: Store in a cool, dry place out of reach of children.
Allergens and what it does not contain
Free From: Artificial colours, flavourings or preservatives, dairy products, gluten, lactose, soya, sugar, wheat, yeast.

Source: label statements in DSLD label 245936.

What else is on the label?

Other ingredients: natural Lithothamnion calcarea, Zinc Citrate, Copper Gluconate, Magnesium Stearate, Silicon Dioxide, Zein Protein Coating.

How many labels does Zinc have?

5 labels are on file under this name since January 23, 2015: other sizes, label designs and reformulations. The current one leads this page.

  1. Label 245936 (current) Entered June 23, 2021 · on the market · 90 tablets · UPC 5 031013 101083
  2. Label 228895 Entered June 24, 2020 · off the market January 20, 2023 · 90 tablets · UPC 5 031013 101083
  3. Label 228868 Entered June 24, 2020 · on the market · 90 tablets · UPC 5 031013 100789
  4. Label 217395 Entered April 23, 2020 · off the market May 7, 2020 · 90 tablets · UPC 5 031013 101083
  5. Label 41326 Entered January 23, 2015 · off the market February 22, 2019 · 90 tablets · UPC 5 031013 101083

DSLD also links this label to: Zinc 20 mg (image difference, same product), PM Recovery 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 Higher Nature Ltd (EU) (other), Dublin, Ireland. All Higher Nature products.

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