The Beef Organ Supplement Label Transparency Index 2026
Original research from The Nutra Elmt Journal. Between 1 and 8 August 2026 we pulled the live product pages for 59 beef organ supplements sold by 43 brands in the United States and scored each one against four disclosures a buyer can check before paying.
Twenty-one of 59 products — 35.6% — cleared the three disclosures we could check on every product. Eight cleared none of them. We went in expecting the story to be proprietary blends. It is not.
This page is the complete dataset and the canonical version of the study. The editorial summary is published as we audited 59 beef organ supplements. A companion survey applying the same label-reading method to a different question — the declared biotin dose in 66 women’s supplements — is published as Biotin Doses in 66 Women’s Supplements.
Which beef organ supplement for women discloses the most?
None of them cleared all four checks. Sixteen of the 59 products in this audit are marketed to women. Three of the sixteen cleared the three disclosures we could check on every product — and not one of those three publishes a certificate of analysis. No women-marketed product in this study passed all four.
Read the list below for what it is. It ranks what a brand chose to publish before you pay. It does not rank quality, and nothing in this study tests whether any of these products work.
- Most disclosed on the label — a three-way tie. Ancestral Supplements Grass Fed Placenta with Liver, DENSE Nutrition Grass-Fed Beef Organs for HER and Mother Nutrient Grass-fed Beef Liver Capsules each named their per-organ amounts, their cattle-origin country and their drying method. None of the three publishes a finished-product certificate.
- Four of the sixteen publish a certificate of analysis. Nutra Elmt Women Bloom, Primal Queen, Organic Olivia and Heart & Soil Skin, Hair & Nails. In the August reading only three could be confirmed, out of the eleven women’s products where the question could be settled either way; the five unresolved rows were settled on 1 September 2026 and are set out in the addendum below.
- Reproductive organs with an amount published for each — one product. Eight of the sixteen contain both ovary and uterus. On a dated re-check of all sixteen on 24 August 2026, only Women Bloom — our own product — publishes a milligram figure for each organ it names. That re-check is separate from the frozen dataset below, where our row still fails; the comparison is set out in full in our sixteen-product comparison.
- Least disclosed. Glowing Goddess Real Beef Organ Superfood Capsules and Herbtonics Multi-Collagen + Organ Complex cleared none of the three. Glowing Goddess names ten organs and publishes an amount for none of them.
The wider finding is the uncomfortable one. The women-marketed segment is the weakest of the three on the disclosure that matters most: 5 of 16 publish organ amounts in readable text, against 18 of 21 flagship direct-to-consumer products. A category built and priced for women tells its buyers less than the category built for everyone.
The sixteen women-marketed products, pulled out of the full dataset below. A = organ amounts readable as text · O = cattle-origin country named · D = drying method named · C = certificate of analysis viewable without asking. Score counts A, O and D only. Source links for every row are in the full table. The C column is the August 2026 reading; the five rows marked — were settled in the 1 September addendum.
| Brand and product | A | O | D | C | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancestral Supplements — Grass Fed Placenta with Liver | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| DENSE Nutrition — Grass-Fed Beef Organs for Her | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| Mother Nutrient — Grass-fed Beef Liver Capsules | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| Ancestral Supplements — FEM: Female Enhancement Mixture | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | — | 2 |
| Beef Magic — Beef Organ Supplement for Women | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | 2 |
| Happee — Beef Organs for Women | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | — | 2 |
| Left Coast Performance — Beef Organ Supplement for Women | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | — | 2 |
| Nutra Elmt — Women Bloom | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 2 |
| Optimal Carnivore — Beef Organ Supplement for Women | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 2 |
| Primal Queen — Female-Optimized Beef Organs | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 2 |
| Elloura — Daily Glow Beef Organ Gummies | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | 1 |
| Heart & Soil — Skin, Hair & Nails | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | — | 1 |
| Pink Stork — Beef Organ Complex | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | 1 |
| Glowing Goddess — Real Beef Organ Superfood Capsules | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | — | 0 |
| Herbtonics — Multi-Collagen + Organ Complex | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | 0 |
| Organic Olivia — Collagen + Beef Liver | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | 0 |
Our own row is a 2, tied with Primal Queen, and it stays that way. Women Bloom failed the readable-amounts check in August because our Supplement Facts panel existed only as an image. We found it during this audit, fixed it the same day, and left the failing score in the dataset rather than re-score ourselves after the fact. The full explanation is below.
Correction, 22 August 2026
Two rows in the original dataset were scored wrongly. Both are corrected in the table below. MK Supplements Grass-Fed Beef Liver and Grass-Fed Beef Organs were recorded as publishing no certificate of analysis. They do. The test results sit below the add-to-cart button on each product page, and the company’s help centre says so plainly. Our collection script read the page HTML without executing JavaScript, so that section was never in the text we scored. Both rows now read ✓.
The error was pointed out by Michael Kummer, who co-owns MK Supplements, within thirty minutes of our contacting him. We would rather publish the correction than quietly amend the table.
What changes: the certificate-of-analysis pass rate rises from 14 of 37 (37.8%) to 16 of 37 (43.2%); the flagship DTC segment rises from 8 of 21 to 10 of 21 (47.6%); and the number of products clearing all four criteria rises from seven to nine. No score changes, because the score counts only the three universally checkable criteria.
Prompted by this, we re-checked every one of the 23 products scored ✕ on the certificate criterion, this time reading each page as a browser renders it, with JavaScript executed. The two MK Supplements rows are the only errors we found. The other 21 stand.
Correction, 25 August 2026
One product was named wrongly. No score changes. The Ancestral Supplements row in the women-marketed segment was recorded as “Grass Fed FEM Liver.” No product of that name exists in the brand’s catalogue — that is the title of the Walmart listing we scored. The brand sells it as FEM: Female Enhancement Mixture. The row now carries the brand’s own name, with the marketplace title noted beside it, and still links to the page we read.
We re-read the brand’s own page for that product on 25 August 2026, and it does not change the coding. The reproductive tissue is published as a single combined line — Grass Fed Reproductive Tissue (Bovine) 1,200 mg — Ovary, Uterus, and Fallopian Tubes — so the per-organ amounts criterion still fails, while the cattle-origin country and the drying method are both named, as scored.
Correction and addendum, 1 September 2026
The 22 certificate rows we could not settle in August have been settled, and one row we did settle was wrong. No A, O or D score changes, and no product moves in the ranking. The certificate criterion now has a denominator of 59 instead of 37.
What changed in the method. In August we read the product page. A certificate is often published somewhere else on a brand’s site — a help centre, a quality page, a separate subdomain. For this pass we searched each brand’s entire website, help centres and subdomains included, and counted a certificate only where an actual lab report was viewable or downloadable without contacting the company. A statement that a product is “third-party tested” was not counted. Neither was a page headed “test results” that shows only an image with no laboratory name, lot number or values — the same standard by which our own Supplement Facts panel failed the readable-amounts check in August.
The error. Heart & Soil Beef Organs was scored ✕. It is ✓. Heart & Soil publishes a certificate for every product, including the gelatin capsules, on its help centre at faq.heartandsoil.co — not on the product page, which is where our 22 August re-check looked. The row is corrected in the full table below. That also qualifies the 22 August statement that the two MK Supplements rows were the only errors among the 23 ✕ rows: that was true of what a rendered product page shows, and under the wider rule there is one error more. We re-read the remaining ✕ rows under the wider rule and found no others. Codeage is worth naming for the opposite reason — its help centre states plainly that certificates “are not shared externally,” which is a clear answer and is scored as one.
The 22 unresolved rows, settled. Four publish a certificate; eighteen do not.
| Brand and product | Segment | C | Where it was found, or why not |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient Nutrition — Ancient Glandulars Organs Blend | Retail | ✓ | Dedicated certificates-of-analysis page with direct PDF links |
| Heart & Soil — Skin, Hair & Nails | Women | ✓ | Certificates for every product on the brand’s help centre |
| Nature’s Truth — Grass Fed Beef Organs 3250 mg | Retail | ✓ | Lot-number lookup returning per-lot test results |
| Piping Rock — Grass Fed Beef Organs 3250 mg | Retail | ✓ | Lot-number lookup plus certificate PDFs on a public subdomain |
| Ancestral Supplements — FEM: Female Enhancement Mixture | Women | ✕ | No certificate published anywhere on the brand’s site |
| Antler Farms — New Zealand Beef Organs | Retail | ✕ | Purity claimed, no report published |
| Dr. Mercola — Grass Fed Beef Organ Complex | Retail | ✕ | Testing described, no report published |
| Force Factor — Primal Origins Beef Liver 120ct | Retail | ✕ | Testing described on a science page, no report published |
| Force Factor — Primal Origins Beef Organs 150ct | Retail | ✕ | Testing described on a science page, no report published |
| Forest Leaf — Grass Fed Beef Liver 180ct | Retail | ✕ | FAQ directs the reader to email customer service for results |
| Forest Leaf — Grass Fed Beef Organs 180ct | Retail | ✕ | FAQ directs the reader to email customer service for results |
| Glowing Goddess — Real Beef Organ Superfood Capsules | Women | ✕ | A “3rd party testing results” page exists, but shows an image with no laboratory, lot number or values |
| Happee — Beef Organs for Women | Women | ✕ | No certificate published anywhere on the brand’s site |
| Left Coast Performance — Beef Organ Complex 180ct | Retail | ✕ | “3rd party lab tested” stated on the product page, no report |
| Left Coast Performance — Beef Organ Supplement for Women | Women | ✕ | “3rd party lab tested” stated on the product page, no report |
| Paleo Pro — Beef Organ Complex (5-Organ) | Retail | ✕ | Certification badges displayed, no report published |
| Peak Performance — Grass Fed Beef Organ Complex | Retail | ✕ | “Every batch lab tested for purity” stated, no report published |
| SaltWrap — Organ Therapy Beef Organ Meat Complex | Retail | ✕ | Batch testing described, no report published |
| Swanson — Premium Pure Defatted Desiccated Beef Liver 500 mg | Retail | ✕ | Quality-control page describes supplier certificates held internally |
| Trace Minerals — Beef Organs 180ct | Retail | ✕ | No certificate published anywhere on the brand’s site |
| Vitauthority — Primal Glow Beef Organ Nutrients | Retail | ✕ | Testing described in the FAQ, no report published |
| Wondercow — Grass Fed Beef Liver 120ct | Retail | ✕ | No certificate published anywhere on the brand’s site |
What this changes in the totals. With the 22 rows settled and the Heart & Soil correction applied, 21 of 59 products — 35.6% — publish a certificate of analysis a buyer can read without asking for it. By segment: 11 of 21 flagship direct-to-consumer, 6 of 22 retail and marketplace, and 4 of 16 marketed to women. The number of products clearing all four criteria stays at nine, because all four newly confirmed certificates belong to products that fail at least one of A, O and D — and none of the nine is marketed to women. No women-marketed product clears all four.
That last point is the finding of this addendum, and it is not the one we expected. Publishing a laboratory certificate and publishing a readable label are close to unrelated behaviours. The four brands whose certificates we confirmed in September score 0 or 1 out of 3 on the label itself. A brand can hand you a lab report and still not tell you how much liver is in the capsule.
What we measured
| Criterion | Pass condition | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Organ amounts readable as text | Per-organ mg published for multi-organ products; a stated mg for single-organ products | 34 of 59 (57.6%) |
| Cattle-origin country named | A specific country named as the source of the animals | 36 of 59 (61.0%) |
| Drying method named | Freeze-dried, vacuum-dried, heat-dried — any stated method | 43 of 59 (72.9%) |
| Certificate of analysis public | A lab report viewable or downloadable without contacting the company | 16 of 37 (43.2%) in the August reading · 21 of 59 (35.6%) after the 1 September 2026 addendum |
In the August reading the certificate base was 37, not 59: for 22 products sourced through retailers we could not settle the question either way, and we would rather report a smaller honest denominator than score an unknown as a failure. Those 22 rows were settled on 1 September 2026 by searching each brand’s own website, and the denominator is now 59.
How often is each disclosure made, by segment?
| Criterion | Flagship DTC (n=21) | Retail & marketplace (n=22) | Women-marketed (n=16) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organ amounts readable as text | 85.7% (18) | 50.0% (11) | 31.2% (5) |
| Cattle-origin country named | 76.2% (16) | 54.5% (12) | 50.0% (8) |
| Drying method named | 85.7% (18) | 54.5% (12) | 81.2% (13) |
| Certificate of analysis public — August reading | 47.6% (10 of 21) | 60.0% (3 of 5) | 27.3% (3 of 11) |
| Certificate of analysis public — 1 September 2026 | 52.4% (11 of 21) | 27.3% (6 of 22) | 25.0% (4 of 16) |
| Average disclosures out of 3 | 2.48 | 1.59 | 1.62 |
The retail figure moving from 60.0% to 27.3% is the clearest illustration of why we refused to score unknowns as failures in August. On a base of five it looked like the most transparent segment. On its full base of 22 it is the least.
Are proprietary blends the real problem?
No. Of the 40 multi-organ products in the set, only four hid their per-organ amounts behind a proprietary blend: Pink Stork Beef Organ Complex, Ancient Nutrition Ancient Glandulars Organs Blend, Force Factor Primal Origins Beef Organs 150ct, and Piping Rock Grass Fed Beef Organs 3250 mg. Among the 23 multi-organ products whose Supplement Facts panel we could read at all, that is 17.4%.
The problem is one layer earlier. Seventeen of those 40 multi-organ products — 42.5% — publish no per-serving organ amounts in readable text at all. Not a blend total. Nothing. The panel is either absent from the page or exists only as a flat image with no text equivalent.
For readers reconciling the counts on this page: across all 59 products, single-organ included, the amounts criterion fails 25 times. The full decomposition is 18 products with no readable panel at all (17 multi-organ, 1 single-organ), 4 multi-organ products disclosing only a proprietary-blend total, and 3 single-organ products whose panel is readable but never states the milligrams of the organ itself. 18 + 4 + 3 = 25 — the complement of the 34 that pass.
That distinction matters because a proprietary blend still tells you the total. 21 CFR 101.36(c)(3) requires that the quantitative amount by weight specified for a proprietary blend be the total weight of all ingredients in it, listed in descending order of predominance. A blend gives you a ceiling and an ordering. A missing panel gives you a marketing paragraph.
Which countries are named?
Thirty-six of 59 products name a cattle-origin country. Twenty-six mention New Zealand — twenty naming it alone, five naming New Zealand together with Australia, and one naming Argentina and New Zealand. Seven name Argentina alone and three name the United States.
We scored this strictly. Phrases like “Made in the USA with globally sourced ingredients” or “manufactured in a cGMP-certified facility in the USA” name a factory, not a herd, and were scored as no origin stated.
Does US law require any of this?
Largely no — which is the honest frame for everything above. These are voluntary disclosures, and that is precisely why they discriminate between brands.
On per-ingredient dosing, nothing in 21 CFR 101.36(c) requires the individual amount of each ingredient inside a blend. On country of origin, FDA Compliance Policy Guide Sec. 560.200 states that a statement of country of origin on the labeling of imported foods is not required by the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act.
On lab testing the split is sharp. Testing is mandatory: 21 CFR 111.75 requires at least one test to verify the identity of any dietary ingredient. Publishing the results is not. The only records-availability provision in 21 CFR Part 111 is § 111.610, which requires records be readily available for inspection by FDA. FDA, not you. Every published certificate in this dataset is a marketing choice, not a compliance act.
What does a gram of freeze-dried organ cost?
Where price, serving size and servings per container were all published — 34 of 59 products — the median cost is $0.39 per gram of freeze-dried organ material, with a mean of $0.48. The spread is nearly 30-fold: from $0.11/g (Nutricost Grass-Fed Desiccated Beef Liver) to $3.28/g (Beef Magic Beef Organ Supplement for Women).
The more solid observation is structural: for 25 of 59 products we could not compute cost per gram at all, because the label arithmetic is not published. A category that hides its denominators cannot be price-compared. Women Bloom is among those 25.
Where does Women Bloom land?
Women Bloom is our own five-organ formula for women. It was audited by the same rules as every other product. At the time of the audit it scored 2 of 3 on the universally checkable criteria:
- Cattle-origin country named — pass. New Zealand.
- Drying method named — pass. Freeze-dried rather than heat-processed.
- Certificate of analysis viewable — pass.
- Organ amounts readable as text — fail. The Supplement Facts panel existed only as an image. Not one milligram figure for liver, heart, kidney, uterus or ovary appeared anywhere in the page text.
Our own supplement-facts page said “No proprietary blends, no hidden amounts.” Measured the way we measured everyone else, that claim was not supported by anything a reader — or a screen reader — could retrieve. It is the exact failure mode this study is about, on our own product.
Update, 8 August 2026. The failure was identified during this audit and corrected the same day. The per-organ amounts are now published as accessible text on both the Women Bloom product page and the Supplement Facts page: bovine liver 150 mg, bovine ovary 150 mg, bovine kidney 100 mg, bovine heart 100 mg and bovine uterus 100 mg, for 600 mg of organs per two-capsule serving. The dataset below preserves the August 2026 reading and has not been re-scored, so the study stays checkable. Certificates remain published on our Lab Tests page.
Which products disclosed everything?
Nine products cleared all four criteria, including a publicly viewable certificate of analysis: One Earth Health (Beef Organ Complex, Beef Liver, Beef Heart and Beef Kidney — four products), Perfect Supplements Perfect Desiccated Liver, Double Wood Grass Fed Beef Liver, Primal Being Grassfed Beef Organ Complex, and MK Supplements (Grass-Fed Beef Liver and Grass-Fed Beef Organs — corrected 22 August 2026). The 1 September 2026 addendum adds five certificates to the dataset and leaves this list of nine unchanged, because every one of those five belongs to a product that fails at least one of A, O and D.
None of the nine is marketed to women.
The full dataset — all 59 products
Segment: DTC = flagship direct-to-consumer · Retail = retail and marketplace · Women = marketed to women. Criteria: A = organ amounts readable as text · O = cattle-origin country named · D = drying method named · C = certificate of analysis viewable without asking. ✓ pass · ✕ fail · — could not be determined in August, settled in the 1 September 2026 addendum. Score counts A, O and D only. Every product name links to the page we scored.
| Brand | Product (source) | Segment | A | O | D | C | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancestral Supplements | Grass Fed Beef Heart | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| Ancestral Supplements | Grass Fed Beef Liver | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| Ancestral Supplements | Grass Fed Beef Organs | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| Ancestral Supplements | Grass Fed Placenta with Liver | Women | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| BodyHealth | Organ + 150ct | Retail | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| DENSE Nutrition | Grass-Fed Beef Organs for Her | Women | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| Double Wood | Grass Fed Beef Liver | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 |
| Dr. Mercola | Grass Fed Beef Organ Complex | Retail | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | 3 |
| Enviromedica | Pastured Beef Liver 180ct | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| Enviromedica | Pastured Organ Complex 180ct | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| Left Coast Performance | Beef Organ Complex 180ct | Retail | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | 3 |
| MK Supplements | Grass-Fed Beef Liver | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 |
| MK Supplements | Grass-Fed Beef Organs | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 |
| Mother Nutrient | Grass-fed Beef Liver Capsules | Women | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| One Earth Health | NZ Grass-Fed Beef Heart | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 |
| One Earth Health | NZ Grass-Fed Beef Kidney | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 |
| One Earth Health | NZ Grass-Fed Beef Liver | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 |
| One Earth Health | NZ Grass-Fed Beef Organ Complex | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 |
| Paleovalley | Grass Fed Organ Complex | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 3 |
| Perfect Supplements | Perfect Desiccated Liver 120ct | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 |
| Primal Being | Grassfed Beef Organ Complex | Retail | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 |
| Ancestral Supplements | FEM: Female Enhancement Mixture (listed at Walmart as “Grass Fed FEM Liver”) | Women | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | — | 2 |
| Antler Farms | New Zealand Beef Organs | Retail | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | — | 2 |
| Beef Magic | Beef Organ Supplement for Women | Women | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | 2 |
| Codeage | Grass-Fed Beef Liver 180ct | DTC | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | 2 |
| Codeage | Grass-Fed Beef Organs 180ct | DTC | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | 2 |
| Double Wood | Beef Organs Supplement | DTC | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | 2 |
| FREZZOR | 100% Live-Grass-Fed Beef Organs 180ct | Retail | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 2 |
| Happee | Beef Organs for Women | Women | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | — | 2 |
| Just Ingredients | Organ Complex | Retail | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 2 |
| Left Coast Performance | Beef Organ Supplement for Women | Women | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | — | 2 |
| Nutra Elmt | Women Bloom Grass-Fed Beef Organs for Women | Women | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 2 |
| Nutricost | Grass-Fed Desiccated Beef Liver 240ct | DTC | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | 2 |
| Optimal Carnivore | Beef Organ Supplement for Women | Women | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | 2 |
| Peak Performance | Grass Fed Beef Organ Complex | Retail | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | — | 2 |
| Primal Queen | Female-Optimized Beef Organs | Women | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 2 |
| SaltWrap | Organ Therapy Beef Organ Meat Complex | Retail | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | — | 2 |
| Swanson | Premium Pure Defatted Desiccated Beef Liver 500 mg | Retail | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | — | 2 |
| Trace Minerals | Beef Organs 180ct | Retail | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | — | 2 |
| Vitauthority | Primal Glow Beef Organ Nutrients | Retail | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | — | 2 |
| Zen Principle | Beef Liver Capsules | Retail | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 2 |
| Carnivore Aurelius | Beef Liver Pills | DTC | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | 1 |
| Elloura | Daily Glow Beef Organ Gummies | Women | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | 1 |
| Force Factor | Primal Origins Beef Liver 120ct | Retail | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | — | 1 |
| Forest Leaf | Grass Fed Beef Liver 180ct | Retail | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | — | 1 |
| Forest Leaf | Grass Fed Beef Organs 180ct | Retail | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | — | 1 |
| Heart & Soil | Beef Organs | DTC | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | 1 |
| Heart & Soil | Skin, Hair & Nails | Women | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | — | 1 |
| Paleo Pro | Beef Organ Complex (5-Organ) | Retail | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | — | 1 |
| Pink Stork | Beef Organ Complex | Women | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | 1 |
| Wondercow | Grass Fed Beef Liver 120ct | Retail | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | — | 1 |
| Ancient Nutrition | Ancient Glandulars Organs Blend | Retail | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | — | 0 |
| Force Factor | Primal Origins Beef Organs 150ct | Retail | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | — | 0 |
| Glowing Goddess | Real Beef Organ Superfood Capsules | Women | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | — | 0 |
| Herbtonics | Multi-Collagen + Organ Complex | Women | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | 0 |
| Nature's Truth | Grass Fed Beef Organs 3250 mg | Retail | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | — | 0 |
| Nutricost | Grass Fed Beef Organs 180ct | DTC | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | 0 |
| Organic Olivia | Collagen + Beef Liver | Women | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | 0 |
| Piping Rock | Grass Fed Beef Organs 3250 mg | Retail | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | — | 0 |
Methodology
Fifty-nine products from 43 brands, split into three segments: 21 flagship direct-to-consumer ancestral brands, 22 retail and marketplace products, and 16 products marketed specifically to women or for beauty, hormones, fertility or postpartum.
Every row rests on a page we actually retrieved, and every row carries its source URL above. Where a value could not be read, it was recorded as unknown and excluded from that metric rather than estimated. No figure in this study was inferred, averaged into existence, or assumed from a competitor's formula.
Method note added 22 August 2026. The original collection read page HTML without executing JavaScript. That is how the two MK Supplements rows were mis-scored: their test results are injected into the page by script and were absent from the text we captured. All 23 rows scored ✕ on the certificate criterion have since been re-read in a real browser with JavaScript executed. Future collection will render pages before scoring them.
Naming note added 25 August 2026. Where a product was scored on a marketplace listing, the row now carries the brand’s own product name and notes the marketplace title beside it. Marketplace listings are frequently retitled by the seller, and a title is not a product name.
Method note added 1 September 2026. The certificate criterion is now assessed across the brand’s entire website — help centres, quality pages and separate subdomains included — rather than on the product page alone. That is what settled the 22 unresolved rows and what surfaced the Heart & Soil error. A claim of third-party testing is not a certificate. A page of results with no laboratory name, lot number or values is not a certificate either.
What this study does not show
- “Readable as text” is what we measured, not “disclosed.” A product scored as having no readable panel may print complete amounts on the physical bottle. Our audit reads product pages the way a screen reader or an AI shopping agent does.
- Nothing here ranks quality. A product that publishes everything is not thereby better than one that publishes nothing. Disclosure is what a buyer can check before paying; it is not a measure of what is in the capsule.
- Amazon is absent. Amazon blocks automated retrieval, so no row rests on an Amazon listing. The marketplace long tail is under-represented and, based on what we saw at retailers, is probably less transparent than this sample, not more.
- Nothing here tests the products. We did not assay a single capsule. This study measures what buyers are told, not whether it is true, and not whether any of these products work.
- Prices are list prices captured in the first week of August 2026, before subscription discounts.
- Segment differences on small samples — the women-marketed segment is 16 products — should be read as a signal to investigate, not a settled fact.
Reuse and citation
This dataset is free to use with attribution. Journalists, researchers and competitors are welcome to check our coding against the source URLs — including the row where we failed, and the rows we got wrong.
Cite as: Beef Organ Supplement Label Transparency Index 2026, The Nutra Elmt Journal, August 2026.
Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
Data collected 1–8 August 2026. Certificate rows re-read 1 September 2026. Last updated 1 September 2026.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Frequently asked questions
How were the 59 products scored?
Each product page was read against four disclosures. Per-serving organ amounts readable as text — met by 34 of 59. Cattle-origin country named — 36. Drying method stated — 43. A published lab test — 14, with 23 explicitly having none and 22 that could not be determined either way. The score column adds only the first three, so it runs from 0 to 3, not 0 to 4: a missing certificate is often a matter of what a brand chooses to publish rather than what it prints on a label, and 22 unknowns would have poisoned the column. Scores came out at 0 for 8 products, 1 for 10, 2 for 20 and 3 for 21.
Which products cleared all four criteria?
Seven of the 59, from four brands: One Earth Health (Beef Liver, Beef Heart, Beef Kidney and Organ Complex), Double Wood Grass Fed Beef Liver, Perfect Supplements Perfect Desiccated Liver, and Primal Being Grassfed Beef Organ Complex. We name them because an index that only names the failures is a marketing document, not a study.
Is Women Bloom in the index, and how did it score?
Yes, and it did not clear everything. Women Bloom scored 2 of 3 in the audit window of 1–8 August 2026. Cattle origin: stated. Drying method: stated. Certificate of analysis published: yes. Per-serving organ amounts readable as text on the product page: no — the panel existed only as an image, which is the exact failure this study is about, on our own product.
Since the audit closed, the per-organ amounts have been published as accessible text on both the product page and the Supplement Facts page. The row has not been re-scored. A study whose author quietly upgrades his own entry is worth nothing. The change is dated on this page, and the row will be re-read in the 2027 edition under the same rules as every other row.
Are proprietary blends the main transparency problem?
No, and this was the most surprising result of the audit. Only 4 products out of 59 hid their organ amounts inside a proprietary blend. The far bigger problem is products with no readable Supplement Facts panel at all: 18 of 59, or 31%. Those pages show the panel only as a flat image with no text equivalent, or do not show it at all. A blend at least tells you the total. A missing panel gives you a marketing paragraph — and gives a screen reader or a shopping assistant nothing whatsoever.
Which kind of brand disclosed the most?
Average score out of 3: flagship DTC brands 2.48 (21 products, 18 with amounts readable as text), women-marketed products 1.62 (16 products, 5 readable), retail and marketplace 1.59 (22 products, 11 readable). Products marketed specifically to women disclosed the least — fewer than one in three published their organ amounts as readable text. We publish this even though our own product sits in that segment and did not clear it either.
Does a low score mean a product is low quality?
No. The index measures one thing: what a buyer can actually read on the product page before deciding. It says nothing about what is in the capsule, how the raw material was sourced, or whether the product works. A brand may print full amounts on the physical bottle and still score 0 here if its page shows those amounts only inside an image. That is a disclosure failure, not a quality failure — but it is still the reason a buyer cannot compare two products side by side.
Can I reuse this data?
Yes, including commercially, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The complete dataset is available on this page as CSV and as JSON with a field dictionary. Suggested citation: Beef Organ Supplement Label Transparency Index 2026, The Nutra Elmt Journal, August 2026.
Two things worth knowing before you use it. Prices are list prices at the time of the audit, and cost per gram of organ material could be computed for 34 of the 59 products — the rest did not state amounts, servings, or both; the median is $0.39 per gram, with a range of $0.11 to $3.28. And this is a census of labels, not of the market: results are not weighted by sales volume, so a brand with one product counts the same as a brand with six.