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A daily capsule for men, sold to support prostate health and urinary comfort. The serving is two capsules with 6 to 8 ounces of water, and each 60-capsule bottle lasts 30 days. Every one of the nine label ingredients carries its amount, from saw palmetto at 300 mg and pygeum bark at 200 mg to pumpkin seed at 100 mg. One bottle is $69; six are $49 each. It is a dietary supplement, not a treatment for any prostate condition, so new or changing urinary symptoms go to a doctor first.
Updated October 12, 2026. This desk sells nothing itself. How these pages are written.
Prostacyl is a capsule dietary supplement for men, sold to support prostate health and urinary comfort. One serving is two capsules a day with 6 to 8 ounces of water, so a 60-capsule bottle covers a month. Its label lists nine ingredients with an amount for each, including saw palmetto, pygeum and pumpkin seed, and no proprietary blend. One bottle is $69; six are $49 each.
This is an independent information desk. It sells nothing itself, it publishes what the supplied material actually says, and where a figure was never supplied it says so rather than filling the gap with something plausible. On most products in this series that policy produces a page full of holes. This one is different, and the difference is worth stating before anything else: the label prints an amount for every single ingredient, so the work here is arithmetic rather than absence.
Each of the nine rows has its own section on the ingredients page, and the pricing page covers the packs and the refund terms. If you take a prostate medicine or have urinary symptoms that have not been checked, speak to your doctor before you start.
Eight facts, each one taken from the label or the material supplied with it. Where a row gives two figures, the merchant printed two figures.
Compare that image with what the sales page does. The seller pack records that the sales page’s What’s inside heading printed no panel at all, and listed six of the nine names in what amounted to a reference list. The label wins wherever the two disagree, and here the label wins by a wide margin. The uncomfortable consequence is that the one document which would let a buyer check this product is the one place the merchant does not show them.
This is the section that would normally be an argument about a missing document. Here it is a transcription, and the transcription is the best thing about the product. A dietary supplement sold in the United States carries a Supplement Facts panel, and the panel has a fixed shape: a serving size, a servings-per-container figure, then one row for each dietary ingredient with its name on the left and its quantity per serving on the right. The rule that sets that shape is 21 CFR 101.36.
Prostacyl prints all of it. Nine ingredients, nine amounts, a serving size of 2 capsules and 30 servings a container. Tap any row to read what it delivers.
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** Daily Value (DV) not established. Other Ingredients: Gelatin (capsule), Brown Rice Flour. Distributed By: Nutrova, Tallmadge, OH 44278. Transcribed from the label artwork supplied. Every amount above is printed; none is derived.
Read the right-hand column top to bottom. There is a figure in every cell. No row says proprietary blend, no group of ingredients shares a single weight, and nothing is deferred to a sales page. Two rows go further and print the percentage the extract is standardised to, which is the information that makes the rest of this page possible: without the 3% on the pygeum row and the 5% on the lycopene row, neither of those sums could be done by anyone outside the company.
Sum the nine printed amounts and a serving comes to 808.8 mg: 25 + 13.8 + 300 + 200 + 100 + 100 + 50 + 10 + 10. That is 404.4 mg a capsule at the printed two-capsule serving. A size 0 capsule holds roughly 400 to 500 mg of powder, so the fill is plausible and close to capacity, with the brown rice flour making up the remainder. The panel is internally consistent with itself and with the physical object it describes, and that is not true of every label this desk reads.
Twelve credits and eight open questions is an unusual balance for this series, and it is the reason the score further down is the highest one on record here. The label page transcribes every other line on the wrap — the directions, the caution block, the storage lines, the Other Ingredients line, the distributor and the three foot-of-label marks — and numbers all eighteen findings.
Nothing in this section is a ceiling, an estimate or a guess. Every figure below is either an amount printed on the panel or that printed amount multiplied by a standardisation percentage printed on the same panel. Where a comparison needs a figure from outside the label — a Daily Value, an upper limit, a trial dose, a USDA food figure — the source is named in the same sentence.
| The row, as printed | What the arithmetic gives | What the published work used |
|---|---|---|
| Vitamin E (as dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate) 25 mg, 167% DV printed | The 167% is 25 ÷ 15. NIH’s Office of Dietary Supplements converts 2 mg of the synthetic all rac form to 1 mg of alpha-tocopherol, so 25 mg supplies about 12.5 mg — roughly 83% of the Daily Value. | 100% of the Daily Value is 15 mg of alpha-tocopherol. The upper limit is 1,000 mg a day, so nothing here is a safety finding. |
| Pygeum africanum Extract (bark) 200 mg, std. to 3% phytosterols | The phytosterols are the measured constituent, so the serving delivers 200 × 0.03 = 6.0 mg. | Trials use extract standardised to 13% total sterols at about 100 mg a day, which is 13.0 mg of sterols. Twice the milligrams, under half the sterols. |
| Lycopene 5% (Lycopersicum esculentum) (tomato) 10 mg | The 5% is the standardisation, so the lycopene is 10 × 0.05 = 0.5 mg. | The commonly cited BPH trial gave 15 mg a day for 6 months to 40 men. USDA puts one cup of canned tomato juice at 21.96 mg — about 44 times a day of this product. |
| Nettle Extract (leaf) 50 mg | No multiplication to do. The variable on this row is the plant part, and the label names it, which is good practice and the reason the mismatch is visible. | The BPH literature is on root: aqueous root extract at 360 mg a day for six months, and methanol root extract to 1,200 mg. Nettle leaf has its own literature, and none of it concerns the prostate. |
Green bars are this product. Grey bars are the dose used in the published work. Read the three pairs: the pygeum row prints 200 mg and delivers 6 mg of the measured constituent against the trial's 13 mg; the nettle row prints 50 mg of leaf against 360 mg of root; the lycopene row prints 10 mg of a 5% preparation, which is 0.5 mg of lycopene, against 15 mg. Every figure is printed on the label or is the printed figure multiplied by the printed standardisation.
None of the four rows above is mislabelled, and none of them is a safety finding. The label prints the amount, prints the standardisation where there is one, and prints the plant part. Every figure in the table is the merchant’s own number, or two of the merchant’s own numbers multiplied together. The finding is that the serving delivers substantially less of the measured constituent than the published work used, and that no reader could discover this without doing the arithmetic themselves. Each row is set out one at a time here, with the standardisation, the part and the comparison in full.
For a botanical, the name alone carries almost no information: the same plant name covers a raw dried powder, a concentrate and a standardised extract that can differ by more than an order of magnitude in whatever is being measured. This label does better than a name on seven of its nine rows. Tap any card for the detail.
Synthetic form. On the NIH conversion this is nearer 83% of the Daily Value.
Vitamin B6pyridoxine hydrochloride13.8 mg · 812% DVThe percentage is correct. Above the European upper limit, well below the American.
Saw Palmetto ExtractSerenoa repens (fruit)300 mgNo standardisation printed, and below the lowest arm of the CAMUS trial.
Pygeum africanum Extractbark, std. to 3% phytosterols200 mg → 6 mg sterolsTwice the trial's milligrams, under half its sterols.
Grape Seed ExtractVitis vinifera (seed)100 mgAn antioxidant with no prostate rationale given anywhere in the material.
Pumpkin Seed ExtractCucurbita moschata (seed)100 mgSpecies and part both named. No standardisation, and the trials use far more.
Nettle Extractleaf50 mgThe prostate literature is on the root. This is the leaf.
Boronboron amino acid chelate10 mgHalf the adult upper limit in one serving; seven to ten times typical intake.
Lycopene 5%Lycopersicum esculentum (tomato)10 mg → 0.5 mg lycopeneA thirtieth of the trial dose, and a forty-fourth of a cup of tomato juice.
Two rows deserve singling out for opposite reasons. Pygeum is the most instructive row on the panel, because the bigger milligram figure loses: 200 mg at 3% delivers less sterol than the 100 mg at 13% the trials use, and the label printing its percentage is the only reason anyone can see that. Grape seed extract is the row with no account at all — 100 mg of an antioxidant studied in cardiovascular contexts, sitting on a prostate panel with no stated reason. What each row is supposed to be doing is set out here.
Six dimensions, marked out of five, published with the reasoning rather than as a number on its own. A page that only attacked the best label in a series would be advocacy, and less useful than one that keeps score honestly, so the credits are marked in the same table as the failures.
The first row is a five, and it is a five for a reason that has nothing to do with generosity: ingredient disclosure is the thing a label exists to do, and this one does it completely. The second row is a four, held back only because the document supplied is pre-press artwork rather than a printed bottle. Then the score falls, and it falls on the three dimensions that arithmetic reaches.
Dose against evidence scores one, because four of nine rows land far below the published doses. Claim accuracy scores two: the B6 percentage is right and the vitamin E percentage is roughly double what the form delivers. Badge honesty also scores one, and that one is the easiest of all of them to fix — a Vegetarian badge over a gelatin capsule and a Doctor Formulated badge with no doctor named are both decisions somebody made about artwork, not facts about a formula. All ten supplied badges are set out here.
Three packs are offered and two of them can be priced. The middle one cannot, because the sales page shows it without a total.
1 bottle
30 capsules in total · 30 days at two capsules daily, the serving the label prints
3 bottles
90 capsules in total · 90 days at two capsules daily, the serving the label prints
6 bottles
180 capsules in total · 180 days at two capsules daily, the serving the label prints
Every pack: sealed bottles · 60 or 90 days — the page prints both · returns to 1370 Avenue of the Americas, Floor 4, New York, NY 10019, USA
The one-bottle row uses the printed $69 over 30 days, which is about $2.30 a day. The six-bottle row is the merchant’s own figure of $49 each: six times $49 is $294, and $294 across 180 days is about $1.63 a day. That arithmetic is this desk’s and is labelled as such. The three-bottle row is blank because a figure between $69 and $49 a bottle would be a guess, and the $119 struck through beside the one-bottle price is used nowhere on this site, because nothing supplied shows it was ever charged. The pricing page prints the table with the empty cells left empty.
The sales page prints two different windows. A 60-day promise appears alongside the money-back badge, and a 90-day figure appears on the refund contact line on the same page. Both cannot be the term. Confirm the window at the live checkout and in the refund policy before you order, and keep a copy of whichever one you were shown.
These are the query shapes people type about this product, grouped, with each one pointed at the page here that answers it. Several of them have a short answer and three of them are worth giving straight away.
How much lycopene is in it: 0.5 mg, not the 10 mg printed, because the row is a 5% preparation. Does it have a Supplement Facts panel: yes, a complete one, which is unusual enough in this series to be the headline. Is it vegetarian: no — the capsule is gelatin, whatever the badge says.
Fourteen questions, phrased the way people type them. Each answer carries the figure it rests on and names the source for anything from outside the label. Type to filter.
There is one, and it is complete. The label artwork carries a fully quantified Supplement Facts panel with 9 rows, every one of them bearing an amount, a serving size of 2 capsules, 30 servings a container, and no proprietary blend. That is the most transparent label this desk has read in this series. The awkward part is where it sits: the merchant’s own sales page omits the panel its own label carries. The panel is transcribed in full here.
Nine, in the order the panel prints them: Vitamin E 25 mg, Vitamin B6 13.8 mg, Saw Palmetto Extract 300 mg, Pygeum africanum Extract 200 mg, Grape Seed Extract 100 mg, Pumpkin Seed Extract 100 mg, Nettle Extract 50 mg, Boron 10 mg and Lycopene 5% at 10 mg. Other Ingredients: Gelatin (capsule), Brown Rice Flour. Each of the nine is set out row by row here.
Read the row carefully, because the answer is not 10 mg. The panel prints Lycopene 5% … 10 mg, and the 5% is the standardisation of the preparation. The lycopene itself is 10 × 0.05 = 0.5 mg. The commonly cited BPH trial gave 15 mg a day for 6 months to 40 men, which is 30 times more. USDA puts one cup of canned tomato juice at 21.96 mg.
It is 10 mg of an extract that is 5% lycopene by weight, so it supplies 0.5 mg of lycopene. The same convention applies to the pygeum row: 200 mg standardised to 3% phytosterols supplies 6.0 mg of phytosterols. Both percentages are printed on the label, which is the only reason either sum can be done. A label that printed the milligram figure alone would look better and tell you less.
300 mg of saw palmetto extract, from the fruit of Serenoa repens, and no standardisation is printed for it. The CAMUS trial randomised 369 men, started at 320 mg a day, doubled at 24 weeks and tripled at 48, ran 72 weeks, and found no difference from placebo at any dose: the AUA Symptom Index fell 2.20 points on saw palmetto and 2.99 on placebo, P = .91. This product sits below even the starting arm.
That prefix is the whole of this finding. dl- marks the synthetic all rac form, a mixture of all eight stereoisomers of which the body retains four. NIH’s Office of Dietary Supplements states the conversion in so many words: 1 mg of alpha-tocopherol equals 1 mg of natural RRR-alpha-tocopherol or 2 mg of the synthetic form. So the 25 mg printed supplies about 12.5 mg, which is roughly 83% of the Daily Value rather than the 167% printed.
The percentage is arithmetically correct: 13.8 divided by the 1.7 mg Daily Value is 811.8%, and the label prints 812%. Credit that. Two upper limits are worth knowing beside it. The US Food and Nutrition Board sets 100 mg a day, so this serving is about 14% of it. The European Food Safety Authority set an adult limit of 12 mg a day in 2023, and on that figure this serving is about 15% above it. The safety page sets both out.
Boron has no Daily Value, because the Food and Nutrition Board found the data insufficient to set one, so the ** on that row is correct. It does have a Tolerable Upper Intake Level for adults of 20 mg a day, and this serving is half of it. Total intake from food and supplements together runs about 1.0 to 1.5 mg a day, so one serving is roughly seven to ten times a typical day. NIH records no adverse effects within the upper limit and no known clinically relevant drug interactions.
No. The label’s Other Ingredients line reads Gelatin (capsule), Brown Rice Flour., and gelatin is an animal product. The label does not use the word vegetarian either way; it discloses the material and lets you draw the conclusion, which is the right way round. One of the compact badges supplied with the marketing set reads Vegetarian, and the label contradicts it.
One bottle is $69, with $119 printed struck through beside it and nothing supplied to show $119 was ever charged. Six bottles are named at $49 each with free shipping against $19.99, which multiplies to $294 — this desk’s arithmetic on the merchant’s own figure. The three-bottle pack is shown with no total printed, so that row is left empty. The pricing table shows the working.
Both figures are printed, which is the problem. A 60-day promise appears beside the money-back badge, and a 90-day figure appears on the refund contact line on the same page. Both cannot be the term, and this site will not choose between them, because choosing would mean inventing one. Confirm the window at the live checkout, and keep a copy of whatever you were shown. The refund procedure is set out here.
The label prints Distributed By: Nutrova, Tallmadge, OH 44278, USA, with the email [email protected]. A named distributor with a place of business, printed on the label itself, is more than most products in this series manage, and it is recorded here as a credit. It does not match either address this site publishes: the retailer’s office is in New York and its returns address is a different New York building. Who is who is set out on the about page.
This desk does not use that word; it keeps score, and the score here is 2.9 out of 5, the highest it has given in this series. The reason is the label: nine ingredients, nine printed amounts, no blend, species and parts named, two standardisations, a full caution block and a real distributor. What holds the score down is what those amounts turn out to say once the arithmetic is done, and a set of badges the label itself contradicts. The reviews page covers the supplied testimonials separately.
Nothing supplied answers that. No clinical trial of this product exists in the material, and no document claims one. What can be checked is each row against the published work on that ingredient, and four of the nine land well short: lycopene at a thirtieth of the trial dose, pygeum at under half the sterols, nettle leaf where the trials use root, and saw palmetto below the lowest arm of a trial that found nothing at three doses. What each row is supposed to be doing is set out here.
Every source below was opened and read. Where a statement on this page rests on a regulation, a Daily Value, an upper limit, a trial dose or a food composition figure, the document it rests on is listed here. Nothing is cited from memory.
Sixty capsules, two a day, thirty days a bottle. The Supplement Facts panel declares nine ingredients and nine amounts, with no proprietary blend — the most transparent label in this series. Four of those nine rows change meaning once the arithmetic is done, and all four sums are shown in full. One bottle is $69; six are $49 each. The refund window is printed as 60 days in one place and 90 in another.
Prices as printed on the sales page, as of October 12, 2026: one bottle $69, six bottles $49 each with free shipping. The three-bottle total is not published, so it is left blank rather than estimated. The refund window is printed as 60 days in one place and 90 in another — confirm it at the checkout. Questions first? Every published contact route is here.
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