Label guide
What Is a Proprietary Blend, and Why Does It Matter for Glyco Mode?
A proprietary blend is a group of ingredients listed under one name with one combined weight. The law lets the maker hide the individual amounts, but the names must be in order of weight. Glyco Mode uses one: a 1000 mg Test Boost Proprietary Blend of nine ingredients with no single amount shown.
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This page is general information, not medical advice. GlycoMode is a dietary supplement. It is not FDA approved, and no supplement is. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Ask your own doctor before you use it, and say so if you take insulin or any diabetes medicine.
What is the definition of a proprietary blend?
On a Supplement Facts panel most ingredients get a row and an amount. A proprietary blend gets one row and one amount. The names of the parts then sit underneath it, indented, with nothing beside them.
US labelling rules allow this. The reasoning is that a formula is know-how, and exact ratios could be copied. The price a buyer pays for that protection is every number about the parts.
One rule survives. The ingredients inside the blend must be listed in descending order of weight. The first is the biggest part. The last is the smallest.
What can you work out from a blend line?
Three sums are enough to judge most blends. Each one uses only the numbers on the label.
| Question | How to work it out | Glyco Mode result |
|---|---|---|
| What is the average share? | Blend total divided by number of ingredients | 1000 mg divided by 9 is about 111 mg |
| What is the first ingredient's floor? | It must be at least the average | L-lysine HCL is at least about 111 mg |
| What is the last ingredient's ceiling? | It must be at most the average | Raspberry ketones are at most about 111 mg |
| How many are studied above the average? | Check each ingredient's research dose | Cinnamon, bitter melon and garcinia are studied in grams |
These are bounds, not measurements. One ingredient could be 900 mg and the other eight a dusting, and the label would look the same.
Key facts
- A blend gives one total weight and hides each part's amount.
- The parts must be listed from largest to smallest.
- Glyco Mode's blend is named Test Boost Proprietary Blend: 1000 mg per serving of 2 capsules.
- It holds nine ingredients. Seven are plant extracts or powders, one is an amino acid and one is a flavour compound.
- No extract ratio or standardisation is published for any plant ingredient.
- The blend name does not match the front title, Blood Health Support Capsules.
- A blend is not proof of a bad product. It is proof that you cannot tell.
Why do makers use proprietary blends?
Four reasons are common. The first is to protect a formula, and it is a fair one. The second is to allow a long list of names, since nine names look better than two. The third is to avoid printing small amounts. The fourth is cost flexibility, since the inside can change while the total stays put.
Only the first helps you in any way. So a blend is sometimes protection and often cover, and from outside the two look the same.
What five questions should you ask of any blend?
What is the total, and how many ingredients share it?
Divide. The average is the number everything else rests on.
Which ingredients are studied above that average?
Look each one up. Anything studied in grams cannot sit in a small blend at a studied dose.
Are extract ratios shown?
A strong extract and a plain powder can share a name. The ratio tells them apart.
Does the first ingredient fit the purpose?
It is the biggest part of what you buy.
Does the blend's name fit the product?
A name for one use inside a product sold for another is a flag.
How does Glyco Mode answer those five questions?
The total is 1000 mg and the count is nine, so the average is about 111 mg. Six of the nine are studied at doses that reach or pass that figure when taken alone: cinnamon, bitter melon and garcinia in grams, apple cider vinegar as a liquid, tongkat ali at 200 to 400 mg and horny goat weed at 100 to 900 mg.
No extract ratio is published. The first ingredient is L-lysine HCL, which has no cited link to glucose in our sources. And the blend is named Test Boost, inside a product sold as Blood Health Support Capsules.
None of that shows a bad capsule. It shows a label that asks you to take a lot on trust.
What can you do when the amounts are not published?
- Ask the seller by phone on +1 (302) 200-3480. What they can and cannot answer is itself information.
- Compare with a single-ingredient bottle that prints its amount. Run the cost-per-day sum on both.
- Buy the smallest pack that gives you a fair test.
- Read the return terms before you pay.
- Ask your doctor to read the panel, particularly if you take any medicine.
Where do these facts come from?
The blend rules follow the FDA pages below. The ingredient dose ranges come from our pack and the cited NIH and MSK pages.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2026). Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2026). Questions and Answers on Dietary Supplements.
- Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health (2026). Dietary Supplements for Weight Loss: Health Professional Fact Sheet.
- NCCIH, National Institutes of Health (2026). Cinnamon: Usefulness and Safety.
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, About Herbs (2026). Bitter Melon.
Frequently asked questions
What is a proprietary blend?
It is a group of ingredients listed under one name with one combined weight. The individual amounts are not shown, but the names must be in order of weight.
Is a proprietary blend legal?
Yes. US labelling rules allow it. The rule that remains is that the parts are listed in descending order of weight.
What is in the Glyco Mode proprietary blend?
Nine ingredients: L-lysine HCL, apple cider vinegar, garcinia cambogia, tongkat ali, horny goat weed, wild yam, cinnamon, bitter melon and raspberry ketones. The blend totals 1000 mg per serving.
Why is it called Test Boost Proprietary Blend?
The label does not say. The front of the bottle reads Blood Health Support Capsules, so the name does not match the product title.
Can I find the amount of each ingredient?
Not from the label. Only the seller or maker could publish them, and they are not published in our pack.
Does a blend mean the product is bad?
No. It means you cannot tell what is in each capsule, which is a different finding.
Our view
Blends are not a trick, and they are not a comfort. They are a way of keeping numbers private. A buyer can accept that, but should do so knowingly.
For Glyco Mode the cost of privacy is high, because the nine names have very different research doses. That is why we score label transparency at 1 out of 5.
If the maker ever prints nine amounts, we will rewrite this page the same week.
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Last updated . Written by the GlycoMode Editorial Desk. Medically reviewed by Dr. Andrea Hayes, MD, Physician.