Buying & rules.
One product, a few unfamiliar label terms and a browser full of tabs. Here is where to start making sense of the details: ingredients, amounts, combinations and buying across borders.
This is the home for the cross-cutting guides: how to read a label, how to check a combination with medicines, and where to look when rules come into it.
What brought you here?
Begin with Smart Supplements: An Evidence-Led Beginner's Guide, then come back for the guides below.
Read How to read a supplement label (and a lab certificate), then Supplements, herbs and medication if you take anything else.
Good questions.
Useful places to start.
- 01
How do you judge a supplement before buying: start with the need, then check the evidence, the product information and safety?
How to evaluate supplements: an evidence-led guide
- 02
Which number on the pack comes first, and what can a certificate of analysis tell you?
How to read a supplement label (and a lab certificate)
- 03
Why is "natural" not a safety category, and what do you bring to a pharmacist?
Supplements, herbs and medication: how to check a combination
- 04
Which five questions check any product, and where do the dated Dutch and EU notes sit?
Buying in the Netherlands and EU: check the product and the country