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Eight checks, each worth points, all of them runnable on a bottle in a shop in about two minutes. The method is published in full before it is used, and the last section runs it on the product this website sells and prints the total without adjusting the scoring to suit.
A scoring card for a shelf where almost nothing carries the ingredients the research is about.
Why a scoring card beats an opinion
What this card measures, what it does not, and why the weights are published first.
Most advice about choosing a supplement amounts to a list of adjectives: look for quality, look for transparency, look for a reputable brand. None of those can be checked while holding a bottle, which is where the decision is actually made.
Eight yes-or-no checks can be. Each one below is answerable from the panel and the packaging alone, without a phone, and each is worth a fixed number of points so two products can be compared without an argument about which adjective matters more.
The scoring is deliberately blunt. It rewards information over marketing, and it punishes a label for hiding what it could have printed. That is a value judgement and it is stated here rather than smuggled into the weights.
The eight checks, and what each is worth
Eight rows, sixteen points, and a column telling you where on the bottle each answer is.
| # | The check | Points | How to answer it in a shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Does the panel print an amount for every ingredient? | 3 | Turn the bottle over. Amounts in the right-hand column, or a blend total |
| 2 | Does it carry any of the four trialled ingredients? | 3 | Alpha-lipoic acid, benfotiamine, acetyl-L-carnitine, B12 |
| 3 | If it does, is the amount near the trial dose? | 2 | 600 mg, 300–600 mg, 1,500–3,000 mg respectively |
| 4 | Does it name the plant part and the species? | 2 | “Root”, “bark”, a latin binomial in brackets |
| 5 | Is B6 absent, or present at a modest amount? | 2 | Look for pyridoxine and a Daily Value in the hundreds of per cent |
| 6 | Is the serving size and month count honest? | 2 | Capsules per bottle divided by capsules per serving |
| 7 | Does the other-ingredients line tell you about the shell? | 1 | Gelatin, vegetable cellulose, or nothing said |
| 8 | Is a lot code and a contactable seller printed on it? | 1 | A lot, a best-before, and an address or telephone number |
Sixteen points available. The first two are worth three because they are the two that decide whether anything else on the card can be answered at all.
Check three only scores if check two scored, which is why it is worth two rather than three: a label carrying none of the four cannot be marked down twice for the same thing.
Check five is the one most shoppers would not think of, and it is on the card because high-dose B6 causes the symptom this shelf is sold for. The nerve supplement guide sets out the evidence behind it.
Reading a total once you have one
Four bands, and the limit of what any of them can tell you.
| Total | What it means | What to do with it |
|---|---|---|
| 13–16 | A label that tells you nearly everything and carries the research | Rare on this shelf. Compare it against a second one on price per day |
| 9–12 | Informative, but missing either the ingredients or the amounts | Worth buying if the missing half is the one you care least about |
| 5–8 | A label you can read but cannot check | Judge it on something other than the research, and know that is what you are doing |
| 0–4 | A label that has printed the minimum | Not necessarily a bad capsule. An unknowable one |
A total is a measure of how much a label tells you. It is not a measure of whether a capsule works, and no card made of eight yes-or-no questions could be.
That last line in the note is the honest limit of this method and it needs saying twice rather than once. Everything on the card is about information. A product could print every amount, name every species, and still do nothing at all; another could hide behind a blend total and contain something useful.
The card is still worth running, because information is the only thing a shopper actually has access to. What it buys you is the ability to tell what you know from what you are assuming, and on this shelf those two are usually tangled.
Four things on a label that score nothing
Four label features that feel like evidence and score zero on this card.
A seal with no organisation named
A roundel reading “laboratory tested” or “quality assured” with no certifying body on it is a graphic. It scores zero on this card because there is nothing behind it to check.
A regulator's logo on a filing
A facility registration is a statement that a factory has filed. It is not approval of the capsule, and no dietary supplement holds that. The regulator's own answers say so directly.
A milligram figure on the front of the bottle
The front is marketing. A large number there with no matching row on the panel is a design decision rather than a declaration, and the panel is the part that has to be true.
A percentage with no reference point
“Standardised to 10 per cent” needs a weight before it means anything. Ten per cent of a figure the label does not print is not information.
None of these is fraud and this guide is not calling any of them that. They are marketing shapes that look like data, and the reason to name them is that they occupy the exact part of a label a careful shopper is looking at. The testing page on this site audits the four seals on the pack it sells, including the two that name nobody.
Running the eight checks on Nervelin
The same eight checks, run on the product this website sells, with the total printed as it came out.
| # | The check | This label | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An amount for every ingredient? | No. One figure, 1000mg, for all 9 | 0 of 3 |
| 2 | Any of the four trialled ingredients? | No. None of the four appears on this panel | 0 of 3 |
| 3 | Near the trial dose? | Not applicable, check two scored zero | 0 of 2 |
| 4 | Plant part and species named? | Yes, on seven of the nine, in brackets, including Cinnamomum verum and Momordica charantia | 2 of 2 |
| 5 | B6 absent or modest? | Absent. No pyridoxine on this panel | 2 of 2 |
| 6 | Serving size and month count honest? | Yes. Two capsules, 60 a bottle, thirty servings, stated | 2 of 2 |
| 7 | Shell declared? | Yes. Gelatin capsule, in the other-ingredients line | 1 of 1 |
| 8 | Lot code and a contactable seller? | Yes. Lot NER-26/GE-1959, and a desk on +1 (302) 200-3480 | 1 of 1 |
Eight of sixteen. The card is published above and the arithmetic is in the right-hand column.
Eight of sixteen puts this label in the third band: readable, and not checkable. Both halves of that are true and both are worth stating in the same sentence.
What it loses is the whole of the first six points, and for one reason. The panel declares 1000mg for 9 ingredients together, so no amount can be read for any of them, and none of the four ingredients with controlled trials in this condition is among the nine.
What it gains is everything a label can be asked for once that is accepted. Seven of the nine names carry a species and a plant part. The serving arithmetic is printed and correct. The shell is declared. There is a lot code and a desk that answers. Plenty of bottles on this shelf score lower.
- Zero on amounts, because one figure covers nine ingredients.
- Zero on the trialled ingredients, because none of the four is here.
- Full marks on species, plant parts, serving arithmetic and the shell.
- Full marks on traceability: a lot code, a certificate reference and a contactable desk.
Two questions the card cannot answer
What a scoring card is structurally unable to tell you, said before you rely on one.
The first is whether the capsule does anything. Nothing on an eight-point card touches that, and on this product nothing else does either: there is no controlled trial of this formula, and the nine ingredients have their research in other conditions.
The second is what it costs, which this website cannot tell you because the price sits at the marketplace checkout and was not readable on 19 September 2026. Price per day is the comparison worth making once you have two scores, and it is the one figure that has to come from the checkout screen.
Both of those belong on the product pages rather than in a guide. The reviews page handles what the buyer figures can and cannot carry, and the pricing page explains why no number is printed on it.
Run the card on two bottles and the comparison becomes concrete rather than a matter of impression. Run it on one and you at least know what you are choosing to accept.
Sources behind this scoring guide
The four trial doses the card measures against, the B6 record behind check five, and the labelling research behind check one.
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- Questions and Answers on Dietary Supplements. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/food/information-consumers-using-dietary-supplements/questions-and-answers-dietary-supplements
- Ziegler D, Ametov A, Barinov A, et al. Oral treatment with alpha-lipoic acid improves symptomatic diabetic polyneuropathy: the SYDNEY 2 trial. Diabetes Care. 2006;29(11):2365-70. PMID 17065669. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17065669/
- Stracke H, Gaus W, Achenbach U, et al. Benfotiamine in diabetic polyneuropathy (BENDIP): results of a randomised, double blind, placebo-controlled clinical study. Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes. 2008;116(10):600-5. PMID 18473286. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18473286/
- Sima AA, Calvani M, Mehra M, et al. Acetyl-L-carnitine improves pain, nerve regeneration, and vibratory perception in patients with chronic diabetic neuropathy: an analysis of two randomized placebo-controlled trials. Diabetes Care. 2005;28(1):89-94. PMID 15616239. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15616239/
- Pratama S, Lauren BC, Wisnu W. The efficacy of vitamin B12 supplementation for treating vitamin B12 deficiency and peripheral neuropathy in metformin-treated type 2 diabetes mellitus patients: A systematic review. Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2022;16(10):102634. PMID 36240684. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36240684/
- EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens; Turck D, Bohn T, et al. Scientific opinion on the tolerable upper intake level for vitamin B6. EFSA J. 2023;21(5):e08006. PMID 37207271. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37207271/
- van Hunsel F, Scholl J, Vrolijk M, et al. Impact of Regulatory Action on Dose Maximalization for Vitamin B6 Dietary Supplements on the Reporting Pattern for Neuropathy. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2025;34(2):e70108. PMID 39888171. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39888171/
- Using Dietary Supplements Wisely. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/using-dietary-supplements-wisely
- Dietary Supplements: What You Need to Know. Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/WYNTK-Consumer/
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Eight of sixteen on a card published before it was used: full marks on species, serving arithmetic, the shell and traceability, and nothing on the amounts.
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