Supplements
48 brands in the Ledger.
Vitamins, protein powders, and herbals. Thousands of brands, a handful of factories, and almost no way to check what is in the jar.
48 results
Supplements · Multivitamins
Nature Made
Status: ApprovedAmerica's most-verified mass-market vitamin brand. Owns the plants that make it.
Pharmavite LLC (Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)
Supplements · Practitioner/Clinical
Thorne
Status: WatchlistPractitioner-channel supplements. The one brand in the category whose verification held its value.
L Catterton (P&G acquisition signed 2026-08-04, NOT yet closed)
Supplements · Practitioner/Clinical
Pure Encapsulations
Status: WatchlistPractitioner-channel brand. Nestle calls it the #1 recommended brand in the US practitioner market.
Nestle Health Science
Supplements · Multivitamins
Garden of Life
Status: WatchlistMass-premium natural supplements. Bought as a brand without a factory; its production was absorbed into a parent's plant network.
Nestle Health Science
Supplements · Practitioner/Clinical
Douglas Laboratories
Status: WatchlistPractitioner-channel manufacturer brand; parent of the Klean Athlete line.
Nestle Health Science
Supplements · Sports & Protein
Klean Athlete
Status: WatchlistEvery-lot banned-substance certified sports line. Sold on verification; will not say who makes it.
Nestle Health Science
Supplements · Multivitamins
Nature's Bounty
Status: WatchlistMass-market vitamins. Bought by Nestle at the top and put back on the market four years later.
Nestle Health Science - ACTIVE SALE PROCESS
Supplements · Multivitamins
Solgar
Status: WatchlistPremium heritage vitamin brand. Nestle is keeping this one.
Nestle Health Science
Supplements · Herbals & Botanicals
Osteo Bi-Flex
Status: WatchlistJoint-health supplement whose central claim was withdrawn under a court-approved settlement.
Nestle Health Science - divestiture under consideration
Supplements · Multivitamins
Puritan's Pride
Status: WatchlistDirect-mail value vitamin brand, now inside a conglomerate that is selling it.
Nestle Health Science - divestiture under consideration
Supplements · Multivitamins
Ester-C
Status: WatchlistPatented vitamin C form, sold as a branded ingredient and a finished product.
Nestle Health Science
Supplements · Multivitamins
Sundown
Status: WatchlistValue store-brand vitamins.
Nestle Health Science
Supplements · Multivitamins
NOW Foods
Status: ApprovedEmployee-and-family-owned manufacturer that tests its competitors at its own expense and publishes the results.
NOW Health Group, Inc.
Supplements · Gummies
vitafusion
Status: WatchlistAmerica's biggest gummy vitamin brand, written down and sold by its corporate owner after thirteen years.
Piping Rock Health Products, Inc.
Supplements · Gummies
L'il Critters
Status: WatchlistChildren's gummy vitamin brand, sold as a pair with vitafusion.
Piping Rock Health Products, Inc.
Supplements · Single-Ingredient & Value
Nutricost
Status: WatchlistLow-cost single-ingredient supplements made in plants the founder owns. No published lot testing.
eSupplements, LLC
Supplements · Multivitamins
Centrum
Status: WatchlistThe best-selling multivitamin in America. Nobody will say where it is made.
Haleon plc
Supplements · Multivitamins
One A Day
Status: WatchlistMass-market multivitamin traceable to a named US factory - rare in this category.
Bayer AG
Supplements · Gummies
Flintstones
Status: WatchlistChildren's multivitamin sold as 'complete'.
Bayer AG
Supplements · Multivitamins
Kirkland Signature (vitamins)
Status: WatchlistStore-brand vitamins carrying USP Verified on part of the range.
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Supplements · Gummies
Olly
Status: WatchlistThe candour outlier. Admits it owns no factories; still will not name one.
Unilever PLC
Supplements · Gummies
SmartyPants
Status: WatchlistPremium gummy vitamin brand inside a conglomerate.
Unilever PLC
Supplements · Multivitamins
Emergen-C
Status: WatchlistImmune-support powder on its third owner in a decade.
Haleon plc
Supplements · Multivitamins
Airborne
Status: WatchlistImmune-support tablet whose founding claim the FTC found unsupported.
Reckitt Benckiser Group plc
Supplements · Practitioner/Clinical
Life Extension
Status: WatchlistLong-running supplement publisher and seller. Makes none of it.
None identified - privately held
Supplements · Practitioner/Clinical
Jarrow Formulas
Status: WatchlistFormulator brand inside a PE roll-up.
Vytalogy Wellness (New Mountain Capital)
Supplements · Fish Oil & Omega-3
Nordic Naturals
Status: WatchlistFamily-owned fish oil maker that owns a plant in Norway.
None - independent
Supplements · Practitioner/Clinical
Metagenics
Status: WatchlistPractitioner-channel brand, 850+ products, in year five of a PE hold.
Gryphon Investors
Supplements · Practitioner/Clinical
Designs for Health
Status: WatchlistFounder-controlled practitioner brand with the strongest certification profile found.
Jonathan Lizotte majority; BDT & MSD Partners minority
Supplements · Practitioner/Clinical
Standard Process
Status: ApprovedFarms its own ingredients. Carries no third-party product certification of any kind.
None - DuBois family
Supplements · Sports & Protein
Optimum Nutrition
Status: WatchlistThe default whey protein brand.
Glanbia plc
Supplements · Sports & Protein
Dymatize
Status: WatchlistMass sports nutrition brand.
BellRing Brands, Inc.
Supplements · Sports & Protein
Cellucor
Status: WatchlistC4 pre-workout brand.
Nutrabolt
Supplements · Sports & Protein
Ghost
Status: WatchlistLifestyle sports nutrition brand.
Keurig Dr Pepper (majority)
Supplements · Sports & Protein
Momentous
Status: WatchlistPremium sports supplement brand sold on certification.
None identified
Supplements · Sports & Protein
Legion Athletics
Status: WatchlistSports brand whose entire market position is transparency.
None identified
Supplements · Sports & Protein
Transparent Labs
Status: WatchlistSports brand sold on label transparency.
None identified
Supplements · Single-Ingredient & Value
BulkSupplements.com
Status: WatchlistUnbranded single ingredients at near-commodity margins, made in a plant the founder owns.
Hard Eight Nutrition LLC
Supplements · Sports & Protein
NutraBio
Status: WatchlistThe most transparent brand found. Publishes lot-searchable third-party results.
NutraBio Brands, Inc.
Supplements · Single-Ingredient & Value
Doctor's Best
Status: WatchlistUS supplement brand owned by the Chinese ingredient manufacturer that makes its product.
Xiamen Kingdomway Group Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 002626)
Supplements · Single-Ingredient & Value
Sports Research
Status: WatchlistDirect-to-consumer supplement brand that submits to checkable certifiers.
Sports Research Corporation
Supplements · Single-Ingredient & Value
Swanson
Status: WatchlistValue vitamin brand with the widest in-house dosage-form range in its group.
Swander Pace Capital
Supplements · Single-Ingredient & Value
Vitacost
Status: WatchlistOnline supplement retailer and house brand, contract manufactured, on its third owner in twelve years.
iHerb Holdings, LLC
Supplements · Direct Selling (MLM)
Herbalife
Status: WatchlistThe largest supplement MLM. Certification covers the sports line, not the shake.
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF)
Supplements · Direct Selling (MLM)
USANA
Status: WatchlistDirect-selling supplement brand with in-house manufacturing.
USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (NYSE: USNA)
Supplements · Direct Selling (MLM)
Nutrilite
Status: WatchlistAmway's supplement brand. Farms its own ingredients at a scale nobody else matches.
Alticor Inc. / Amway (DeVos and Van Andel families)
Supplements · Direct Selling (MLM)
Shaklee
Status: WatchlistDirect-selling supplement brand, now producing through co-manufacturing partners.
Shaklee Corporation
Supplements · Direct Selling (MLM)
Melaleuca
Status: WatchlistDirect-selling wellness company, founder-controlled since 1985.
Melaleuca, Inc. (Frank VanderSloot)