SlimTide reviews and complaints: what this site prints and why
Why this site prints no star rating, what the 2.8 out of 5 editorial score covers, and the number and address to use if an order goes wrong.
Journal
Three longer pieces about the mechanics of a probiotic and fibre label. They are the general version of what the rest of this site does to one particular bottle: work out which part of a label is a measurement, and which part is only a name.
Quick answer
Three pieces on how a label works: what a colony-forming unit counts and why a weight in milligrams is not the same kind of number, why only the strain level of an organism’s name can be looked up against a trial, and what a regulator is doing when it attaches a daily intake to a health claim.
Each post stands on its own and ends at the sources it used. The method in all three works on any bottle on any shelf, not only on the one the rest of this site is about.
Reading
The posts
Newest first. Each one stands on its own, and each one ends where the product pages begin.
Is SlimTide legit? What the label proves and what it leaves open
What the SlimTide label proves, what the quality marks do not, who distributes it, and the checks worth running before you pay.
SlimTide capsules: what is in each one and how to take them
One capsule a day, 30 to a bottle: what is in each SlimTide capsule, how to take and store it, and what one capsule can give you.
What CFU means, and why a weight is not one
A probiotic is defined as live organisms in adequate amounts, and the unit that counts live organisms is the colony-forming unit. Why US labels may declare a weight instead, why end of shelf life is the figure to look for, and why a bigger count is not automatically a better one.
The strain is the claim
Genus, species, strain: what each level of an organism’s name means, why only the third can be matched to a published trial, and what a real strain designation looks like — worked through with the codes a regulator had to write down.
Twelve grams
Why a regulator attaches a number to a health claim, what Regulation (EU) 2015/2314 authorised for chicory inulin and at what intake, what native chicory inulin means, and how to use a published threshold on any fibre supplement on any shelf.
The idea
What these are for
Method, rather than product.
The product pages on this site answer one question about one bottle: what does this label tell you, and what does it leave out. These three answer the question underneath it — what kind of number describes a live organism, what part of a name can be checked, and where a published dose comes from in the first place.
Nothing in them depends on this product. The count piece works on any probiotic, the strain piece works on any organism list, and the dose piece works on any fibre supplement on any shelf. That is why they are written separately from the pages about the bottle.
The rules
How they are written
The same rules as every other page here.
- Every figure is transcribed from the supplied artwork, taken from the seller’s written pack, or read in a source listed at the foot of the post.
- Every source was opened when this site was written, and each is linked in full so you can check it yourself.
- Where something was not supplied, the post says so rather than estimating it.
- No study, journal, identifier or dose figure appears that is not in the reference list.
Corrections go to [email protected] with the page and the sentence. If a reading is wrong, a conclusion is wrong, and that is worth fixing in public.
Order
Where to start
If you read one, read the first. The other two lean on it.
The count piece sets out what a probiotic is and what number describes one, so the strain piece can assume it. The strain piece explains why a species name cannot be looked up. The dose piece leaves the organisms behind entirely and deals with the fibre, where a published number does exist.
The desk
Who writes them
The same byline as every other page on this site, and the same conflict of interest.
These are written and reviewed by the Slimtidedaily Editorial Desk, which is the editorial side of Slimtidedaily — the desk that sells the product. That is a conflict of interest, and it is printed here rather than buried.
The response to it is to publish the things a conflicted party would rather not: the count that does not appear on the label, the strain designations that do not appear either, and the division that turns an authorised dose into a number of capsules nobody is allowed to take.
Elsewhere
The shorter versions
The same material, applied directly to the bottle.
If you would rather have the answer about this product than the method behind it, the label page transcribes every printed line, the capsule page runs the division in full, and the blend page works out what 36 mg does and does not let you conclude.
The panel, line by line →The capsule arithmetic →Reading a probiotic label →
The panel, line by lineThree declared amounts, a blend total, and the footnote that explains none of them.Read it →The probiotic blendWhat 36 mg by weight tells you, and the one thing the descending order lets you work out.Read it →The cold-chain questionThe label asks for refrigeration and then does not say what happened in the post.Read it →
See the SlimTide packs
One, three or six bottles. The price is on the seller’s checkout page, because it is one of the few figures this site was never given — and a figure we were not given is not a figure we will print.
Shipping cost and delivery time were not supplied either, which matters more than usual on a product whose label asks for refrigeration. The guarantee is 60 days from purchase unless the sales page prints longer.