Label completeness
The most complete label this desk has read. A real panel, serving size, servings per container, a correct Daily Value footnote, an other-ingredients list, a full caution statement, storage, a safety-seal line, and a named distributor with a postcode and a telephone number. Marked down only for the missing lot and best-before.4.5
Claim discipline
One front-panel claim, correctly asterisked to an FDA disclaimer printed on the same wrap, using support rather than a drug verb. The country-of-origin wording is the correctly qualified form, and the FDA-registered-facility sentence is accurate. The listing seals are weaker than the bottle.4.0
Panel completeness
The panel exists and is well built, and then declares one line. Three ingredients, one total, no individual weights. A blend discloses a ceiling rather than a figure.2.0
Dose transparency
500 mg is printed, which is more than nothing, and the order of predominance lets a reader bound each ingredient. But the three numbers that decide whether this product can work are the three it withholds.1.0
Dose against the research
Both amino acids have real pooled human evidence for blood pressure. The trials used 3–9 g and 4–24 g a day. The whole blend is 0.5 g, and even the label's maximum of two capsules reaches 1 g.0.5
The name
A dietary supplement sold for blood pressure, named with the suffix that marks the ACE inhibitors. We allege no intent and we will not pretend the ending is a coincidence a reader should be left to notice on their own.0.5
Safety disclosure
The caution statement is present and properly worded, which earns the mark. Against it: nothing anywhere mentions the additive effect with blood-pressure medicines, or the warning about use after a heart attack — on a product sold to exactly those readers.1.5
Price transparency
All three tiers, per-bottle figures and struck prices published up front. Marked down because the struck figures are $179 multiplied by the bottle count with no date attached, and because no single bottle is sold though one is pictured.3.5
Cost per day
$1.32, $0.98 and $0.82 a day at one capsule — reasonable. At the label's maximum of two, double all three, and the bottle halves.3.0
Review honesty
All ten published unedited with photographs, and the ten average exactly what the distribution implies, which is a good sign. Against it: the 4.7 printed reconciles with neither, 91% recommend sits against 83% four-and-five-star, and the named best-selling pack is not the one the sample bought.2.5
Overall2.3 / 5
2.3 out of 5 — and this is the most frustrating product this desk has reviewed, because it does so much right.<p>The label is the best we have read. A real Supplement Facts panel. A correct Daily Value Not Established footnote. A complete other-ingredients list that tells a vegetarian buyer the capsule is cellulose. A full caution statement. Storage. A named distributor in Lakeland, Florida, with a postcode and a telephone number. An FDA disclaimer correctly asterisked to the one front-panel claim, and a country-of-origin line in its properly qualified form. Those two rows score four and four and a half, and they are earned.</p><p>Then the panel declares one line. A 500 mg proprietary blend of three ingredients, two of which are the same amino acid in different salts. The order of predominance gives each a ceiling — 500, 250 and 167 mg — and those ceilings are what can be set against the research.</p><p>And the research is in grams. Eight trials of L-citrulline at 3 to 9 g a day, pooling to a systolic reduction of 4.10 mmHg. Eleven trials of L-arginine across 387 participants at 4 to 24 g a day, pooling to 5.39 mmHg. This blend is 0.5 g in total. At the label's maximum of two capsules it is 1 g, spread across three lines, against a 3 g floor.</p><p>Two things pull the score below what the label deserves. The product is named with the suffix that marks the ACE inhibitors, and it is sold for blood pressure. And nothing anywhere in the pack mentions that the clinical summary for its second ingredient warns of additive effects with blood-pressure medicines, or that it records a mortality signal after heart attack. One of the ten reviews supplied with this product is from somebody who takes prescription tablets and showed the bottle to their clinic first. That reader was better served by their clinic than by this label, and that is the sentence this score is really about.</p><p>We sell this product and earn when you buy it through this site. That is why this paragraph is at the top of the page rather than the bottom.</p>