Why this label prints ten amounts when most print a blend total

A proprietary blend is a legal way to not tell you. Here is what a panel looks like when nothing is pooled.

Turn a greens powder over and try to add it up. On most jars you can't. The ingredients are named, sometimes fifty or eighty of them, and then one number sits beside the whole group: a proprietary blend, so many milligrams, pooled. The names tell you what went in. The number tells you nothing about how much of each.

That is legal, and it is a choice. A blend has to be listed in descending order by weight, which means the first ingredient could be nearly all of it and the last one a dusting — and both get printed the same way. The closest powder we checked named nine ingredients and pooled four of its nine grams behind a single line. Four grams you cannot account for, in a nine-gram scoop.

Daily Greens and Adaptogens was built to survive that test. Ten ingredients, ten printed amounts, two 4 g servings a day, 8,000 mg total. Nothing pooled. Eight of the ten are certified organic; the plant enzyme and the probiotic can't be, under USDA rules, and the jar says so rather than rounding it up. Barley, wheat and alfalfa go in as pressed juice at 1,620 mg each a day, and it takes far more grass to make a gram that way. No sweetener, no flavor system, no filler, no flow agent.

The order of work was the unusual part. The spec was written down before anyone had agreed to make it — every ingredient, every amount, the drying ceiling at 106°F — and only then were a formulator and a certified organic co-packer found who could hit it. Most formulas run the other way: a price is set, and the label is whatever comes back.

Which is also why recipes drift. As a brand grows, a blend quietly makes room for whatever costs less that quarter, and the front of the label never mentions it, because the front of the label never carried the amounts. A printed panel takes that option away. If this formula ever changes, the label changes with it, and you would see it the first time you read the jar.

The panel is worth reading yourself — see it beside five others, reproduced from each maker's label →, or read every ingredient, its dose, and the research behind it →.

Ten ingredients. Ten printed amounts. Nothing pooled.

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