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Honey Power Supplement Facts: The Panel FDA Requires and Why the Amounts Are Missing
A supplement label has a front that sells and a back that tells. For HoneyPower we have seen the front. This page shows what the back must contain, line by line.
By The Honey-power editorial deskMedically reviewed by Dr. Landon Trost, MD, Physician, on Published Last updated
A honey power supplement facts panel should list each ingredient with its amount per serving, by weight. For HoneyPower, six ingredients are named but no amounts are published and no panel photo was supplied to this site. The panel on your own bottle is the document that settles it.
What is a Supplement Facts panel meant to show?
Think of it as the receipt for the capsule. It tells you the serving size, how many servings are in the bottle, and what each serving contains.
The rulebook here is FDA’s Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide. Under Question 30, each ingredient name should be followed straight away by how much of it one serving holds, by weight. Under Question 3, the label has to give both the names and the quantities of what is inside. The guide is marked as nonbinding recommendations, but it shows how FDA reads the rules.
So the shape is set. A name, then a number. Anything else is a headline, not a fact.
Key facts
- FDA’s labeling guide says amounts go immediately after each ingredient name (Question 30) and that names and quantities must be listed (Question 3).
- If the six ingredients sit inside a proprietary blend, Question 34 asks for the blend’s total weight and the ingredients in descending order by weight.
- HoneyPower names six ingredients on the sales page. No milligram figure, blend total or extract ratio was supplied.
- The pack held no picture of the back panel, so every amount shown on this site is a blank, not a copy.
- The site’s own label-disclosure score is 0 out of 10. That is a score for what the seller disclosed, not for whether the product works.
Which ingredients does HoneyPower name, and what is missing beside them?
The sales page lists six: honey first, then ginseng, maca, tribulus, horny goat weed and black pepper extract. Both listing graphics repeat the same six, which is a small point in the seller’s favour.
Beside each name, the supplied material has nothing. No milligrams. No percent of daily value. No plant part for four of the six. No species for the horny goat weed. No ratio for the extracts. That is why every amount on this site is a marked blank.
| Ingredient named | Amount per serving |
|---|---|
| Pure honey | Not published |
| Panax ginseng | Not published |
| Maca root | Not published |
| Tribulus terrestris | Not published |
| Horny goat weed | Not published |
| Black pepper extract | Not published |
| Serving size | 2 capsules, from the sales page |
| Servings per container | 30, worked out from 60 capsules at 2 a day |
What if the six sit inside a proprietary blend?
Many supplements group their ingredients in a blend. That is allowed. But under Question 34 the blend must show one total weight on its line, and the ingredients under it must run in descending order by weight, heaviest first.
This gives you something even without exact numbers. If a blend total were printed, you could compare it with the amounts that studies used for one ingredient alone. And the order would tell you which of the six is biggest. Whether HoneyPower uses a blend is not published.
How do you read the real panel when the bottle arrives?
Do this in about two minutes. It is the most useful thing you can do with the bottle.
- Find the serving size. The sales page says two capsules. If the panel says one or three, every number beside it means something different.
- Read down the amount column. Each of the six names should have a weight in milligrams or grams.
- Look for the word blend. If you see it, write down the total and the order of the ingredients.
- Find the black pepper extract line. If it is standardised, the panel should give a piperine figure. A pharmacist will want that number if you take any prescription medicine.
- Find the warnings. No label warning text was supplied to this site, so none is copied here. The bottle’s own text is the one to follow.
- Check the base of the bottle for the lot and best-before. The pack gave a draft lot, HP-26/HO-6690, and a CoA reference, HP-6690-26-HO. Both are draft labels as supplied. Neither is a lab result.
If anything you find disagrees with a page on this site, the bottle wins. Send a photo to [email protected] and the page will be corrected.
Why do amounts matter if studies exist for each ingredient?
Because a study dose is a yardstick, and you need two numbers to use a yardstick. The sources this site opened give a number for five of the six: ginseng at 0.5 to 3 g of crude root or 100 to 400 mg of extract, maca at 3,000 mg in the study that tested two doses, tribulus at 250 to 750 mg, and horny goat weed capsules of 250 or 500 mg once a day. Honey has dosing entries for cough and allergy only.
The label would supply the second number. It has not been supplied. So no one reading this site can say whether a capsule is near, above or far below any of those figures. FTC guidance asks exactly this of advertisers: how do the dosage and formulation of the product compare to the product used in the study?
Do the benefit tiles on the listing tell you what the panel would?
No. Across the two listing graphics there are twelve benefit tiles, and none gives a dose, a study, a comparison or an outcome you could measure. One of the six key benefits is simply that the product is a capsule. That one is true, and it is the only claim you could check at a glance.
Tiles are advertising. The panel is the label. Read them differently.
Which sources does this post use?
Only sources already named on this site are used. Figures from them describe studied ingredients, not the contents of this capsule.
- Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide, Chapter IV: Nutrition Labeling — U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Health Products Compliance Guidance — U.S. Federal Trade Commission
- Ginseng, Panax — Drugs.com natural products database
- Maca — Drugs.com natural products database
- Tribulus — LiverTox, NIDDK
- Horny Goat Weed — LiverTox, NIDDK
- Honey — Drugs.com natural products database
Frequently asked questions
What should a honey power supplement facts panel contain?
FDA’s labeling guide says each dietary ingredient should be named with its amount by weight per serving, and the serving size should be shown.
Does HoneyPower publish ingredient amounts?
No. Six ingredients are named, but no amount, blend total or extract ratio was supplied for any of them.
Why does this site show a blank panel?
No photo of the bottle’s back panel was supplied, so nothing could be copied from a real one. A blank is more honest than a guess.
What does proprietary blend mean?
It means ingredients are grouped under one total weight. FDA’s guide asks for that total and for the ingredients to be listed from heaviest to lightest.
What do the lot number and CoA reference prove?
Nothing on their own. The lot HP-26/HO-6690 and CoA reference HP-6690-26-HO were supplied as draft labels, and neither is a lab result.
Who can I ask if the bottle panel looks wrong?
For an order problem, call the order desk on +1 (302) 200-3480. For an error on this site, email [email protected] with a photo.
Our view
A product can have good ingredients and still fail the simplest test, which is to say how much of each is inside. Right now that test cannot be run from the supplied material, and we say so rather than fill the gap.
If reading the panel before you decide matters to you, the guarantee gives you room to do it: 180 days, said to include empty bottles. Confirm that at checkout, read the back of the bottle on day one, and call a pharmacist if you take regular medicine.
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What this page was checked against
Facts on it come from the product pack and the pages of this site, and from the sources listed above. Where something was not supplied, the page says “not published”. See the references page. This page was medically reviewed by Dr. Landon Trost, MD, Physician, for accuracy against the label and the cited sources.