The exclusion that comes before every other one
A vegetarian seal appears in the packaging artwork supplied with this product. The label itself says otherwise, twice over. The Other Ingredients line ends “Gelatin Capsule”, and gelatin is made from animal collagen. The blend itself contains Orchic Substance, which is glandular tissue of animal origin. Neither of those is a borderline case, and neither is hidden: both are printed on the panel in plain sight.
If you avoid animal-derived ingredients, this product is not for you, and the seal on the box is wrong. The label wins, and on this point the label is unusually easy to read.
This goes first because it is the only line on this page that can make the product
wrong for somebody no matter how well the rest of it suits them. Everything else here is a
judgement about fit; this one is a fact about the ingredient list.
Gelatin is boiled animal collagen, the ordinary material for a capsule shell. Orchic
substance is the less familiar of the two: dried glandular tissue of animal origin,
seventh of eight in the blend, which under the descending-order rule means there is more
of it than of the boron beneath it. The label names neither the animal nor the
process.
If you are vegetarian, vegan, or avoid animal-derived ingredients for religious
reasons, stop here. Every seal on this packaging, explained →