How to read a dose on a Supplement Facts panel

Before Aurevo, I spent years auditing food manufacturers. The thing that bothered me most was not a bad ingredient. It was a label that would not say how much of a good one was in the scoop. A proprietary blend lets a brand list twelve impressive names under one total weight, and you have no way to know whether there is a meaningful amount of any of them. Every Aurevo label lists every ingredient with its own dose. Here is how to read one.

Start with the serving size

Every number on the panel is per serving, and the serving is printed at the top: one scoop of 10.5 g for Daily Greens, two capsules for Magnesium Glycinate, three gummies for the Creatine Gummies. If you take half a scoop, you get half of every number. If the serving is three capsules and you take two, you are not taking the dose the label describes.

Servings per container tells you how long the product lasts at the label dose. The Sleep Blend has 60 capsules and a serving of three, so it lasts 20 nights, not 60. That arithmetic is worth doing before you choose a subscription cadence.

Then the percent Daily Value

The %DV compares the amount in one serving with the Daily Value the FDA sets for a nutrient. Two capsules of Magnesium Glycinate give 200 mg of magnesium, and the Daily Value for magnesium is 420 mg, so the label says 48%. A %DV is a reference for comparing products and totals. It is not a target someone has set for you personally.

Some ingredients have no Daily Value at all: creatine, L-theanine, EPA and DHA, the amino acids in Recovery Aminos. On the panel they carry a dagger (†) and the footnote "Daily Value not established". The dagger does not mean the amount is low or high. It means there is no official reference to compare it with.

Compound or element: read the "as"

Minerals are almost always bound to something. A label that says "Magnesium (as magnesium bisglycinate chelate) 200 mg" is telling you the amount of magnesium itself, the elemental amount, and naming the compound it comes in. The compound weighs much more than the magnesium inside it, which is why two capsules look bigger than 200 mg of anything.

When a label lists only the weight of the compound, you cannot tell how much of the mineral you are getting without doing chemistry. We print the elemental amount, and the form next to it, for that reason.

Add up what you stack

The most useful habit is the dullest one: when you take two products, add the labels together. The Sleep Blend has 100 mg of magnesium per serving and Magnesium Glycinate has 200 mg, so taking both as written is 300 mg. Vitamin D appears in both the Foundation Multi and Vitamin D3 + K2. The Sleep Stack ships with a printed card that does the magnesium sum for you, because it is the question we are asked most.

A total is a fact, not a verdict. Whether a total suits you is a conversation for you and your doctor, and the label is the thing to bring to it.

Warnings belong where you can see them

The last thing to read is the warning. Ours are on the front panel and repeated on each product page: caffeine in the pre-workout, melatonin in the Sleep Gummies, vitamin K with blood thinners, fish in the omega. If a label puts its warning somewhere you have to hunt for it, that tells you something about the label.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Nothing in this article is medical advice. If you are pregnant or nursing, take a medication or manage a medical condition, bring the label to your doctor before you start anything new.