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Eight questions you can answer about any bottle in this category in under a minute, using nothing but the label and the seller's own pages. They cover the ingredient list, the amounts, the claims, the batch, the refund window, the seller and the cost a day. The last section applies all eight to the product this desk sells.
A checklist a seller publishes is only worth reading if the seller then applies it to itself in public. That is the last section, and it does not come out at eight from eight.
The eight questions
Is the full ingredient list printed on the bottle?
Not on the sales page: on the bottle. Advertising is allowed to be selective and frequently is. If the two lists differ, the panel is the regulated statement on the container you receive and the advertising is copy.
Does every ingredient carry an amount, or only the blend?
A single blend total is legal and common. It also means no ingredient can be checked against any trial. Read the total as a ceiling: nothing inside an 80 mg blend is present at 500 mg.
Are there ingredients you did not expect?
Stimulants and liver-relevant botanicals are the two categories worth scanning for. A caffeine figure buried inside a blend is still caffeine, and green tea extract carries a published hepatotoxicity review.
Do the claims match what the trials measured?
The commonest mismatch in this category is testosterone. The tribulus meta-analysis found no difference against placebo, and the ashwagandha trial that did move testosterone found no change in vigour or sexual well-being.
Is there a batch number and a way to trace it?
A lot number on the base, a certificate reference, and somebody who answers a phone. None of that proves purity. All of it makes a question answerable, which matters more in this category than in most.
Is the refund window long enough for the product to work?
If the fastest honest timeline is three to four weeks and the window is thirty days from delivery, the window is decorative. Look for sixty days, and look at what the count starts from.
Who is selling it, and where do returns go?
A named retailer, a real address, a phone route and a returns address that is not a PO box. Three of those four are missing from a surprising number of sellers in this category.
What does it cost a day, not a bottle?
Cost a day is comparable across products and pack sizes; a bottle price is not. Struck-through list prices are a reference a seller sets and tell you nothing about value.
Why these eight, and not a longer list
Because every one of them can be answered from material the seller has already published, in the time it takes to read a label.
A longer checklist asking about extraction ratios, third-party assay certificates and standardisation would be a better checklist and nobody could complete it, because that information is almost never published in this category. A checklist that cannot be completed does not filter anything.
The eight above are the ones where a product either has the information or visibly does not, and where the absence is itself the answer.
What the checklist deliberately leaves out
It does not ask whether the ingredients work, because that question cannot be answered from a label and the honest answer for most of this category is partly, at doses larger than the ones on sale.
It does not ask about reviews, because a seller's own review aggregate is a summary the seller controls, and a marketplace's is a summary somebody else controls.
And it does not ask about price alone. The cheapest bottle in a category where no finished product has a trial is not obviously the best buy, and the dearest certainly is not.
The checklist applied to the bottle this desk sells
| Check | Result | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Full ingredient list on the bottle | Pass | The panel prints nine plants. The advertising prints six, which is why this check is first on the list. |
| Amounts per ingredient | Partial | One blend total at 82 mg, with caffeine at 5 mg the only individual figure. |
| Unexpected ingredients | Flagged | Caffeine, green tea extract and horny goat weed are on the panel and not in the advertising. All three are covered in full on this website. |
| Claims match the trials | Partial | The four label supports are defensible as structure-function claims. The seller's testosterone sentence is not, and this desk declines to repeat it. |
| Batch traceability | Pass | Lot JEL-26/JE-5655, certificate reference JEL-5655-26-JE, and a phone route that can match a bottle to an order. |
| Refund window | Pass | 60 days, counted from the date of purchase, against a reported wait of 3-4 weeks. |
| Seller identity and returns | Pass | Jellyfile, a New York office, a named returns address and a phone line. |
| Cost a day | Pass | $2.63 at two bottles, $2.30 at three, $1.63 at six, published on the pricing page beside the totals. |
Five passes, two partials and one flag. A desk writing purely to sell would have found eight passes, and the two partials are the two that matter most to a reader.
The flag is the one worth dwelling on. Three plants on the panel are absent from the advertising, and two of them are exactly the sort a buyer needs to see: a stimulant with a stated amount, and a plant whose isolated compound acts on the same enzyme as an erectile-dysfunction prescription.
That is not a reason not to buy the bottle. It is a reason to buy it from somewhere that prints the panel, which is the one thing this website can actually offer that a marketplace listing cannot.
The full editorial score, broken down across six headings, is on the home page and comes to 3.6 out of 5.
Using the checklist on something this desk does not sell
It works the same way and that is the point of publishing it.
Take any bottle in this category, find the panel, count the names, look for a blend total, scan for a stimulant and for green tea extract, read the claims against what you now know the trials measured, look for a lot number, read the refund window and note what it counts from, find the returns address, and divide the price by the days of supply.
Eight answers, one minute, and most of the decision made before anybody's marketing gets a chance to work.
What each of the eight checks rests on
- Kuchakulla M, Narasimman M, Soni Y, et al. A systematic review and evidence-based analysis of ingredients in popular male testosterone and erectile dysfunction supplements. Int J Impot Res. 2021;33(3):311-317. Thirty-seven ingredients across the thirty-two best-selling products; no finished product had a published trial of its own, and 68% of ingredients scored C or D for contradictory, negative or absent evidence. PMID 32358510. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32358510/
- Ho CY, Hsu CH, Chien TJ. Herbal dietary supplements for erectile dysfunction: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials. J Tradit Complement Med. 2026;16(1):109-120. PMID 41696741. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41696741/
- Petre GC, Francini-Pesenti F, Vitagliano A, et al. Dietary Supplements for Erectile Dysfunction: Analysis of Marketed Products, Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Rational Use. Nutrients. 2023;15(17):3677. PMID 37686709. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37686709/
- Suharyani S, Amanda B, Angellee J, et al. Tribulus terrestris for management of patients with erectile dysfunction: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials. Int J Impot Res. 2026;38(1):11-18. Eight trials: questionnaire scores beat placebo, and total testosterone did not differ between the groups. PMID 40360723. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40360723/
- Lopresti AL, Drummond PD, Smith SJ. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Study Examining the Hormonal and Vitality Effects of Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) in Aging, Overweight Males. Am J Mens Health. 2019;13(2):1557988319835985. A standardised extract delivering 21 mg of withanolide glycosides a day for eight weeks; testosterone rose 14.7% more than placebo, while fatigue, vigour and sexual well-being showed no between-group difference. PMID 30854916. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30854916/
- Dell'Agli M, Galli GV, Dal Cero E, et al. Potent inhibition of human phosphodiesterase-5 by icariin derivatives. J Nat Prod. 2008;71(9):1513-7. Four plants traditionally used for impotence were screened against human PDE5A1. Only Epimedium and its icariin were active; Tribulus terrestris showed nothing. PMID 18778098. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18778098/
- Oketch-Rabah HA, Roe AL, Rider CV, et al. United States Pharmacopeia (USP) comprehensive review of the hepatotoxicity of green tea extracts. Toxicol Rep. 2020;7:386-402. The review behind the cautionary labelling statement USP now recommends for green tea extract products. PMID 32140423. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32140423/
- 21 CFR 101.36, Nutrition labeling of dietary supplements. US Government Publishing Office. The rule that lets a label state one total for a proprietary blend and list its contents in descending order of weight without an amount for each. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2023-title21-vol2/xml/CFR-2023-title21-vol2-sec101-36.xml
- Kee CL, Ge X, Gilard V, et al. A review of synthetic phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE-5i) found as adulterants in dietary supplements. J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2018;147:250-277. PMID 28903860. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28903860/
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Using Dietary Supplements Wisely. National Institutes of Health. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/using-dietary-supplements-wisely
- Rosen RC, Miner M, Burnett AL, et al. Proceedings of PRINCETON IV: PDE5 inhibitors and cardiac health symposium. Sex Med Rev. 2024;12(4):681-709. The consensus that treats erectile difficulty as a cardiovascular marker worth assessing rather than a standalone complaint. PMID 38936840. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38936840/
