Green Coffee Bean Weight Loss: What the Trials Actually Found

• Green coffee (chlorogenic acids, about)65 mg on the label

  Studies: chlorogenic acid at 500 mg a day or more in three trials (103 people); the label's about 65 mg is 130 mg x 50%. Studies used about 7.7 times the label amount. (Kanchanasurakit 2023, chlorogenic acid) (Asbaghi 2020, green coffee meta)

• Raspberry ketone130 mg on the label

  No human trial of raspberry ketone alone was found; the animal study mixed it into feed at 0.5% to 2% of the diet. No human trial range found. (Morimoto 2005, raspberry ketone mice) (Lopez 2013, multi-ingredient raspberry ketone)

• Garcinia (HCA, about)65 mg on the label

  Studies: 1,500 mg of HCA a day for 12 weeks in the JAMA trial (135 people); the label's about 65 mg is 130 mg x 50%. Studies used about 23 times the label amount. (Heymsfield 1998, garcinia RCT) (Onakpoya 2011, garcinia meta)

• Caffeine138 mg on the label

  Reference levels: 200 mg a day in pregnancy (ACOG) and 400 mg a day for healthy adults (FDA); not study doses. A reference level, not a study dose: the label is 34% of the higher level. (ACOG, caffeine in pregnancy) (FDA, Spilling the Beans caffeine)

• Green tea (EGCG, about)58 mg on the label

  Reference level: EFSA raised a safety concern about EGCG supplements at 800 mg a day; the label's about 58 mg is 130 mg x 45%. A reference level, not a study dose: the label is 7% of the higher level. (EFSA 2018, green tea catechins) (Jurgens 2012, Cochrane green tea)

Label amount per capsuleRange used in studiesReference level

Log scale: each gridline is ten times the one before. Studied ranges are daily amounts from the trials linked on each row; rows marked as a reference show a reference level, not a study dose. A bar being far away does not mean the capsule is unsafe or useless; it means the study results cannot be borrowed for it, because none tested SodaSlim or this five-row combination.