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Eight tests, and the first one decides most of it: does the label print an amount for every ingredient?
Without that figure no comparison with the research is possible. Run on the bottle this site sells, the eight produce three fails, one that cannot be run and three passes.
Eight tests for any label, run at the end on the one this site sells.
Eight tests to run on any label in this category
Eight questions, ordered by how much each one tells you.
Each of these takes under a minute and can be done before paying. They are ordered by how much they tell you, not by how easy they are to run.
Does it print an amount for every ingredient?
The single most informative test, and the one most labels fail. A list of names without weights cannot be compared with anything, including the research it is borrowing its reputation from. A panel that prints figures can be checked in five minutes.
Is there a proprietary blend?
A blend gives one total weight for several ingredients, which means the cheapest one can make up most of it and nothing on the label would change. A blend and a missing panel are the same problem wearing different clothes.
Does it name the plant part and the extract ratio?
Root and leaf of the same species are different ingredients with different research behind them, and a 10:1 extract is ten times the material of a 1:1 at the same printed weight. A label that states neither has told you less than it looks like it has.
How do the printed amounts compare with the trial doses?
This is the test the previous three exist to make possible. Look up what the published human trials gave, and set it beside the panel. A tenth of a trial dose is a common finding and it is worth knowing before rather than after.
What is the claim, exactly?
“Supports” is a structure and function claim and is the ceiling a supplement may go to. Anything that reads like a treatment claim is either outside the rules or is being carefully worded to sound like one, and both are worth noticing.
Is there a named, checkable reviewer?
A byline is worth something only if you can find the person independently of the page he appears on. If a search returns nothing but that page, the byline is decoration. An organisation with a working address and a review date is a weaker sounding claim and a stronger one.
What is the refund window, and does it include opened bottles?
Every trial in this category measured at eight to twelve weeks. A thirty-day returns policy on unopened items makes an honest test impossible to run, which tells you what the policy is actually for.
Is there a published certificate of analysis?
Not a reference number: the document, with a named laboratory, an identity test per ingredient and a contaminant panel. Most products in this category do not have one, and a buyer who requires it has narrowed his shelf considerably.
Running the eight tests on the HoneyPower label
Eight tests run on the product this website stocks.
A buying guide published by a seller is worth reading only if it is willing to run its own tests on its own bottle. So here is that, in a table, with no softening in the middle column.
| Test | Result | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Prints an amount for every ingredient | Fails | No figure appears on any panel of the artwork, including the seller’s own ingredient graphic |
| No proprietary blend | Not applicable | There is no blend because there is no panel. The absence is more complete than a blend would be |
| Names the plant part and extract ratio | Fails | Neither is stated for any of the six |
| Printed amounts against trial doses | Cannot be run | The comparison needs both halves, and one of them is empty |
| The claims are support claims | Passes | The nine benefit lines on the overview panel are structure and function statements about a healthy adult man |
| A named, checkable reviewer | Passes, by refusing one | The seller’s information site carries a reviewer this desk could not confirm. That byline appears nowhere here |
| Refund window covers an honest test | Passes well | 180 days from purchase, empty bottles included, which is six times the length of the longest trial on the panel |
| A published certificate of analysis | Fails | A certificate reference is named; no laboratory, panel or result is published |
Eight tests: three fails, one that cannot be run, one not applicable, and three passes. Published on the site that sells the bottle.
What to do with a label that fails the first test
Three questions that replace the one that cannot be answered.
A failing first test is not automatically a reason to walk away, and pretending otherwise would make this guide useless: most of the category fails it.
What it does is change what you are buying. With printed amounts you are buying a specified quantity of specified material and you can compare it with anything. Without them you are buying a manufacturer’s judgement, which may well be sound and cannot be checked.
So the decision becomes a different one. Is the refund window long enough to run a fair test, is the entry price small enough that the experiment is worth running, and is there an order desk that answers if it goes wrong? Those three questions have real answers, and a buyer who is honest with himself about having moved to them has not been fooled by anything.
- Is the refund window longer than the eight weeks the research implies?
- Is the smallest pack cheap enough that the experiment is affordable?
- Is there a telephone number that answers, with a documented refund procedure?
- And, before all three: is there anything on the ingredient list you should not take?
Six things that look like evidence and are not
Six things that read as proof, and the one that catches careful readers.
- A long ingredient list. More names on a panel means less of each one, and the arithmetic gets worse with every addition.
- A citation with no dose attached. A trial of three grams a day does not support a capsule containing an unstated fraction of that, and a link with no number beside it is hiding the gap.
- A test-tube mechanism described as an effect. Icariin inhibits PDE5 in glassware. Nobody has run it against an erection endpoint in a person.
- A badge with no certifying body named. A seal is a certification when it carries an auditor and a number, and artwork when it does not.
- A struck-through price. It is a reference point the seller chose, not a former selling price, and no saving calculated from it means anything.
- A review score with no denominator. Four point eight out of five from an unstated number of buyers is not a measurement.
The third is the one that catches careful readers. A mechanism study is real science and it is genuinely interesting, and it says nothing whatever about what happens in a person. The icariin and PDE5 work is the clearest example in this category, and the only human trial of isolated icariin this desk could find ran open-label in a mood disorder and measured mood.
Questions about reading a label
What is the single most important thing on a supplement label?
What is wrong with a proprietary blend?
Does a longer ingredient list mean a better product?
How do I check a supplement is what it says?
Why does the refund window matter so much in this category?
Sources behind these eight tests
The surveys and trials each test is drawn from.
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- Kuchakulla M, Narasimman M, Soni Y, et al. A systematic review and evidence-based analysis of ingredients in popular male testosterone and erectile dysfunction supplements. Int J Impot Res. 2021;33(3):311-317. PMID 32358510. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32358510/
- Petre GC, Francini-Pesenti F, Vitagliano A, et al. Dietary Supplements for Erectile Dysfunction: Analysis of Marketed Products, Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Rational Use. Nutrients. 2023;15(17):3677. PMID 37686709. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37686709/
- Borrelli F, Colalto C, Delfino DV, et al. Herbal Dietary Supplements for Erectile Dysfunction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Drugs. 2018;78(6):643-673. PMID 29633089. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29633089/
- Lee HW, Lee MS, Kim TH, et al. Ginseng for erectile dysfunction. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021;4(4):CD012654. PMID 33871063. Nine studies, 587 men, follow-up no longer than 12 weeks; the pooled effect was below the review's own threshold for a difference a man would notice. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33871063/
- Neychev VK, Mitev VI. The aphrodisiac herb Tribulus terrestris does not influence the androgen production in young men. J Ethnopharmacol. 2005;101(1-3):319-23. PMID 15994038. Dose: 10 and 20 mg per kg of body weight per day, in three daily intakes -- roughly 700 to 1,400 mg for a 70 kg man. Androgen production did not change. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15994038/
- Qureshi A, Naughton DP, Petroczi A. A systematic review on the herbal extract Tribulus terrestris and the roots of its putative aphrodisiac and performance enhancing effect. J Diet Suppl. 2014;11(1):64-79. PMID 24559105. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24559105/
- Dording CM, Fisher L, Papakostas G, et al. A double-blind, randomized, pilot dose-finding study of maca root (L. meyenii) for the management of SSRI-induced sexual dysfunction. CNS Neurosci Ther. 2008;14(3):182-91. PMID 18801111. Dose: 1.5 g/day against 3.0 g/day. Only the 3 g arm moved. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18801111/
- Dell'Agli M, Galli GV, Dal Cero E, et al. Potent inhibition of human phosphodiesterase-5 by icariin derivatives. J Nat Prod. 2008;71(9):1513-7. PMID 18778098. In vitro. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18778098/
- Xiao H, Wignall N, Brown ES. An open-label pilot study of icariin for co-morbid bipolar and alcohol use disorder. Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2016;42(2):162-7. PMID 26809351. Dose: up to 300 mg a day for eight weeks, open-label, in a mood disorder. No erection endpoint. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26809351/
- Cui T, Kovell RC, Brooks DC, Terlecki RP. A Urologist's Guide to Ingredients Found in Top-Selling Nutraceuticals for Men's Sexual Health. J Sex Med. 2015;12(11):2105-17. PMID 26531010. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26531010/
- Shoba G, Joy D, Joseph T, et al. Influence of piperine on the pharmacokinetics of curcumin in animals and human volunteers. Planta Med. 1998;64(4):353-6. PMID 9619120. Dose: 20 mg of piperine alongside 2 g of curcumin. The effect was measured on curcumin, not on honey, ginseng, maca, tribulus or icariin. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9619120/
- Alsawadi A. The Perception Filler: A Proposed Conceptual Framework for Ingredient-Interpretation Gaps in Food Supplements. J Nutr. 2026;156(10):101803. PMID 42660500. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42660500/
- Using Dietary Supplements Wisely. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/using-dietary-supplements-wisely
- Dietary Supplements: What You Need to Know. Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/WYNTK-Consumer/
- Tainted Sexual Enhancement and Energy Products. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/consumers/health-fraud-scams/tainted-sexual-enhancement-and-energy-products
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