Probiotics (Total CFU)

Of 4,150 on-market probiotics (total cfu) products in the January 2026 DSLD dump. Declared amounts are in mixed units, so no dose comparison is made.

Form share

Of 0 products with an identifiable primary form, here is the share held by each form of Probiotics (Total CFU) on the market today.

Dose distribution

Probiotics (Total CFU) amounts on labels are declared in different units (billions or millions of CFU, milligrams of culture, or only as a blend total), and they are not stored in one comparable unit, so we do not publish a median, deciles, or fairy-dust share for them. See our probiotics post for what labels do declare. 71.8% of products also don't disclose an individual amount because Probiotics (Total CFU) is declared inside a proprietary blend.

Top brands

Search interest over time

How often people search for probiotics (total cfu) on Google, US only, the last 5 years. This is public interest, not DSLD label data — a spike here doesn't necessarily line up with anything on this page, and Google's own index (100 = that term's peak popularity in the chosen window) is relative, not an absolute search-volume count.

Or see this search directly on trends.google.com.

Forms explained

Reference values

• RDA (adult): not established — Not a DRI nutrient category; no RDA exists.
• Tolerable Upper Intake Level (adult): not established — Not established. NIH ODS notes that supplements commonly contain 1-10 billion CFU per dose (some 50 billion or more) and that trial doses range widely by strain and indication (e.g. 4x10^8 to 1.2x10^11 CFU/day of LGG for antibiotic-associated diarrhea); the optimal dose is strain- and product-specific, there is no established upper limit, and caution applies for severely ill or immunocompromised people -- safety is more a function of strain and host immune status than total CFU count.
• Studied clinical dose range: 1000000000–100000000000 CFU
• NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, "Probiotics - Health Professional Fact Sheet": supplements commonly contain 1-10 billion CFU per dose (some 50 billion or more), and trial doses span roughly 4x10^8 to 1.2x10^11 CFU/day (LGG for antibiotic-associated diarrhea), with no single dose established as effective/necessary across probiotics generally. The 1e9-1e11 CFU bounds are a curated summary of that typical supplement/trial range, not a range stated by ODS.
• Note: Probiotics deliberately do NOT use the compound+forms model applied elsewhere: individual DSLD ingredient rows are species/strain names, aggregated here under one "probiotics" compound by total CFU. Genus/species-level quality tiering is NOT applied -- probiotic efficacy evidence is strain-specific (e.g. a named, clinically- studied strain like GG, BB-12, HN019, DSM 17938 vs. an uncharacterized isolate of the same species), not a property of the genus or even species as a whole; a genus-level tier would misrepresent the science. forms.yaml has no entries for this compound. Alias list includes both pre- and post-2020 Lactobacillus genus-split names (the 2020 taxonomic split created 25 new genera, e.g. Lacticaseibacillus, Lactiplantibacillus) so older and newer label conventions for the same organism aren't fragmented into different rows.