β-glucan cost calculator

Enter a supplement's price, servings per container, serving size, and the label- or COA-stated β-glucan percentage or milligrams per serving. The calculator returns cost per serving and cost per gram of β-glucan, and ranks that figure against the indexed products that disclose β-glucan.

Formula

price per gram of beta-glucan = price ÷ servings per container ÷ serving grams ÷ beta-glucan fraction

priceUsd / (servingsPerContainer × servingSizeMg / 1000 × betaGlucanPct / 100)

This is the same formula the methodology page publishes for the product index.

Worked example

$30.00, 60 servings, 1000 mg per serving, 25% β-glucan: 30.00 / (60 × 1000 / 1000 × 25 / 100) = 30.00 / 15 = $2.00 per gram of β-glucan. Cost per serving is $0.50.

Polysaccharides are not β-glucan

A "polysaccharides %" figure includes α-glucans and starch and is not a β-glucan figure. The calculator will not treat it as one; it only computes cost per serving for such labels.

How it runs

The tool runs in the browser, stores nothing, and results are shareable by link: the inputs are encoded in the page URL. This page requires JavaScript to compute results.

Label-stated values are the brand's claims. This is a cost comparison only and is not medical advice.

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