Supplement amounts can now be searched in a database

Office of Dietary Supplements & US National Library of Medicine

  • Allows searching by dose size

  • Allows greater than and less than searching (e.g. > 10,000 IU)

    • Example: 24 product having > 9,999 IU vitamin D as of Nov 2014
    • Example: 1328 products having > 200 mg of Magnesium as of Nov 2014
  • Allows searching for multiple ingredients – such as Vitamin D AND Magnesium

  • Do not use quotes (e.g. search for Vitamin D, not “Vitamin D”)

  • Allows AND/OR searching

  • You must click on each individual result to see its list of ingredients

  • Many suppliers are missing - such as Bio-Tech - the most popular Vitamind D supplier on Amazon


See also VitaminDWiki

Tags: Supplement