About
Xyne started because its founder could not swallow a capsule.
Brandon has a severe gag reflex. He does not take pills, tablets or capsules, he will not drink a chalky powder, and he keeps sugar out of what he buys. The strips were made for him before they were made for anybody. Xyne Health is a health brand built on taking things out, and proving what stays in.
Where this came from
He built it for himself first.
The gag reflex came first and everything else followed from it. Pills, tablets and capsules are not something Brandon can take, and no amount of water, timing or a smaller size has ever changed that. A strip is not a treatment for a gag reflex and this page will not describe it as one. Difficulty swallowing is a matter for a doctor, and a supplement company has no business anywhere near it. What a strip is, is a format with nothing to swallow: a film about the size of a stamp that goes on the tongue and is gone in about thirty seconds.
Powders were not the way around it either. He is hard to please on taste, a scoop stirred into water is not a thing he will drink twice, and there is a bottle to own and wash before any of that. He also keeps sugar out of what he buys. Between those two the shelf gets short quickly.
Nothing on the shelf did both at once, so he chose a different format: a thin film that dissolves on the tongue, with no pill to swallow and nothing to mix. He chose the formulas one at a time, eleven of them in the end. Selling them came second, and the order of those two things is why this site is written the way it is: a tin has to be worth buying to somebody who already knows exactly what is in it.
The label was the other half of it, and the word at the centre of that is blend. A proprietary blend prints one total for a group of actives, so the group is disclosed and the amounts are not: a person can read the whole line and still not know how much of anything is in there. Nothing he took from one ever did anything for him. The missing number is the part he objected to. Every active on every one of the eleven tins carries its own amount, printed on the tin and printed again on the page it is sold from. What a reader gets from that is the amount, and only the amount. Whether a given amount does anything for a given person is a separate question, and nothing on this page answers it.
A capsule, a gummy, a powder
He is not the only one.
The same three frustrations, one for each format a supplement usually arrives in, with somebody else’s figure under each. One comes from a federal regulator. The other two come from a government census of on-market labels, and every one of them is sourced under the card it sits in.
Scroll for all three
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Format 1
2 in 5
Americans have trouble swallowing a tablet or capsule.
Drawn as 5 figures, 2 filled: the 2 in 5.
Getting one down is the thing this brand was built around. Has a capsule ever stuck halfway for you?
Where the FDA figure comes from
Americans have trouble swallowing a tablet or capsule. FDA’s own wording is “as many as”, so that is its ceiling and not its average.
FDA, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, “Size, Shape, and Other Physical Attributes of Generic Tablets and Capsules: Guidance for Industry”, June 2015, §II.A.1: the problem “may affect as many as 40 percent of Americans”. Among those affected the same page reports 8% have skipped a dose and 4% stopped a course of medicine. Independently, Schiele et al., European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2013;69, pages 937 to 948 put it at 37.4% of 1,051 patients on a solid oral medicine, of whom 70.4% had never raised it with a doctor.
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Format 2
3 g
is the median Total Sugars per labeled serving on the gummy supplement labels in NIH’s label database that print the row: 2,738 of the 3,007 on market, full export dated 2026-01-10.
He reads that line before he buys anything. Do you?
Where the label census comes from
is the median Total Sugars per labeled serving on the gummy supplement labels in NIH’s label database that print the row: 2,738 of the 3,007 on market, full export dated 2026-01-10. The median Total Carbohydrate, across the 2,962 that print one, is 4 g.
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Dietary Supplement Label Database. Every label the database records as Gummy or Jelly and on market, no other filter: 3,007 of them, all counted, none sampled. 2,962 print a Total Carbohydrate figure and 2,738 print Total Sugars; a panel with no row is counted as not declared, never as zero, and where a panel states more than one serving size the smallest is read. Full export dated 2026-01-10, retrieved 2026-09-01. This counts labels rather than people, and no brand is named.
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Format 3
24 in 100
powder and drink-mix labels print a Total Sugars figure at all: 5,943 of the 24,074 on market in NIH’s label database, full export dated 2026-01-10.
Drawn as 100 tiles, 24 filled: the 24 in 100.
He will not mix a scoop of anything. Would you rather not either?
Where the label census comes from
powder and drink-mix labels print a Total Sugars figure at all: 5,943 of the 24,074 on market in NIH’s label database, full export dated 2026-01-10. That is 24.7%, rounded down. A missing row is a number nobody printed, not a zero.
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Dietary Supplement Label Database. Every label the database records as Powder and on market, no other filter: 24,074 of them, all counted, none sampled. 5,943 print a Total Sugars figure and 10,388 print Total Carbohydrate; a panel with no row is counted as not declared, never as zero, and where a panel states more than one serving size the smallest is read. Full export dated 2026-01-10, retrieved 2026-09-01. This counts labels rather than people, and no brand is named.
None of these three figures is a measurement of a XYNE strip, and none of them is evidence that a strip works better than anything else.
How each figure was counted
The first counts people; the other two count labels, and both come from the same government census of on-market Supplement Facts panels, full export dated 2026-01-10. A panel with no row for a nutrient is counted as not declared, never as zero. A missing figure is not a zero. A better-than claim would need a head-to-head test against another format, and nobody has run one.
What we made instead
So we took the pill out first.
What is left when you take the capsule away is the dose, and something to carry it. Ours is pullulan: a film thinner than a stamp, and the first name on every one of our Other Ingredients lines. One goes on your tongue and is gone in about thirty seconds. There is no glass of water in this story, nothing to stir, and nothing to brace for.
There is no sugar in any of the eleven formulas, and there is nothing to mix: no scoop, no shaker, no second thing to buy. What we will not print is a carbohydrate or a calorie amount for a strip. Nobody has measured either one for us, and FDA has never defined a carbohydrate claim for a supplement to make, so there would be no compliant way to state one even if we had it.
The format is the easy half. The label is the hard half.
So the harder half is the panel, and there is only one rule on it. No active anywhere in the line is hidden inside a group total: each one carries its own figure, on the tin and again on the page it is sold from. What is in the tin is on the tin. That is a deliberately small promise, and it is a promise about what is printed rather than about what follows.
That cuts both ways, and it is meant to. It rules out most of what a supplement brand would normally say about itself: how fast it works, how much of it gets anywhere, whether it beats the capsule you gave up on. What is left is a short list of things a person could check at their own kitchen table, and eleven batches of lab results.
Standing commitments
Here is what we will not do.
Six sentences that cost us sales. They are the reason the rest of this site can be taken at face value.
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No speed claims.
How long a strip takes to dissolve is observable, so we print it: about thirty seconds. What a formula does after that has not been measured for these strips, and a number nobody has measured is not a number we will print.
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No comparisons we cannot back.
Nobody has run these formulas against a capsule, a gummy or a powder. Until somebody has, the only honest description of the format is the physical one: a thin film, on the tongue, gone.
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No proprietary blends.
Every active carries its own number. A blend hides the amounts, and the amounts are the reason a label is worth reading at all.
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No heroic doses.
An impressive number is not a useful one. Sleep is one milligram of melatonin. An ordinary amount, on purpose.
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No invented reviews.
The rating on this site is the review platform's arithmetic on a short feed, printed with the count beside it so the size of the sample is never hidden. We do not write reviews, buy them, filter them by rating, or round the number up. One we made up would be worth less than nothing.
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No figure without a receipt.
Where a number comes from a certificate, the lot it came from is printed beside it. All eleven lots have published results, each on its own product page, with the band the certificate states for every row. Four of those certificates have a problem: one row above its stated range, one pair of figures duplicated across two certificates, one identification row naming a different organism, one malformed batch code. Each of those pages says so in words, above the table. We would rather print the defect than the blank.
Sleep Strips, lot UPD2501
What the label claims, and what the lab found.
Sleep Strips, lot UPD2501, line by line. The other ten formulas carry their own table on their product pages. Four of the eleven certificates carry a stated qualification, and those four pages print it above the table, before a reader reaches a number.
| Active | Label claim | Measured |
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| Melatonin | 1 mg | 101.6% of claim |
| Valerian extract | 50 mg | 101.9% of claim |
| Lavender | 20 mg | 99.8% of claim |
| Chamomile | 10 mg | 102.2% of claim |
| Hibiscus | 10 mg | 101.2% of claim |
| Average strip weight | 210.00 mg ±7.5% | 210.16 mg |
| Disintegration time | Under 60 seconds | 30 seconds |
Tested by the manufacturer's laboratory. Heavy metals were run separately by an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory using ICP-MS/MS. Every batch gets its own certificate, so these numbers belong to lot UPD2501 and to no other. The disintegration row is a laboratory test against a stated specification, not a measurement taken in the mouth.
The plain facts
Everything else you would want to know.
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Thirty strips a tin.
One a day makes a tin a month, which works out at about a dollar a day.
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$30.00 a tin, once.
Or subscribe: your first subscription order is $20.00, then $27.00/month. Skip a month or stop whenever you like.
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Designed in the USA.
Made for us at a cGMP-certified facility that specializes in oral film. Every batch is tested on its own and gets its own certificate.
Everything above is checkable. The amounts are on the tins, the lab figures sit on each product page beside the lot they came from, and the three figures further up name the government documents they were counted out of. Anything here that turns out to be wrong gets corrected on this page, in public, rather than quietly taken down.
Brandon
Founder, Xyne Health