The Audifort label, line by line: all 22 ingredients sorted into groups
A supplement label is a contract of sorts. It tells you what's in the bottle, and if you read it carefully it also tells you what the company chose not to tell you. I printed the Audifort supplement facts panel, got out a highlighter, and sorted all 22 blend ingredients into groups. This is what I found.
The panel at a glance
The panel has two parts. First, chromium at 0.7 mcg, listed on its own with an exact amount. Then a 200 mg "proprietary blend" of 22 ingredients, listed in what is normally descending order by weight, but without the weight of each one.
- 22
- ingredients share the blend
- 200 mg
- total weight of the blend per serving
- About 9 mg
- per ingredient if it were split evenly, which it almost certainly isn't
Source: Audifort supplement facts panel, read October 2026.
That third number is my arithmetic, not the company's, and it's only an average. Some ingredients are surely present in larger amounts and some in much smaller ones. The point is that a 200 mg blend spread across 22 things is a sampler, not a high dose of any one of them. That's the main thing a buyer should understand going in.
The 22, sorted into groups
Chromium, listed separately with an exact dose, is counted as the mineral.
| Group | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Plant and herb extracts | 12 |
| Amino acids and related nutrients | 7 |
| Other compounds | 3 |
| Mineral (outside the blend) | 1 |
Source: Audifort supplement facts panel; grouping is my own.
Here is the full list with my grouping and a plain note on why each one usually shows up in supplements. "Usually shows up for" is not the same as "proven to do." I've marked the ones with any research connected to the ear.
| Ingredient | Group | Why it usually shows up |
|---|---|---|
| Maca root | Plant | Energy and mood |
| Grape seed | Plant | Antioxidants (proanthocyanidins). Ear research in cells and animals |
| Guarana seed | Plant | Natural caffeine |
| African mango seed | Plant | Weight and metabolism |
| Eleuthero root | Plant | Stamina, an old "adaptogen" herb |
| Astragalus root | Plant | Traditional Chinese tonic herb |
| Green tea leaf | Plant | Antioxidant catechins plus some caffeine. Ear research in lab studies |
| Gymnema leaf | Plant | Blood sugar |
| Coleus forskohlii root | Plant | Metabolism |
| Capsicum | Plant | Circulation and inflammation claims |
| Grapefruit | Plant | Metabolism |
| Panax ginseng | Plant | Energy. A small human trial in tinnitus |
| Raspberry ketones | Other | Weight claims |
| L-glutamine | Amino acid | Gut and muscle |
| L-tyrosine | Amino acid | Alertness |
| L-arginine | Amino acid | Building block for nitric oxide, which relaxes blood vessels |
| Beta-alanine | Amino acid | Exercise endurance |
| Monoammonium glycyrrhizinate | Other | A licorice compound |
| GABA | Other | Calm and relaxation. Linked to tinnitus in a brain imaging study |
| L-ornithine | Amino acid | Sleep and recovery claims |
| L-tryptophan | Amino acid | Building block for serotonin and melatonin |
| L-carnitine | Amino acid related | Energy metabolism |
If you'd like a second pass on these with more on each study, this rundown of Audifort's ingredients one by one covers the ones I've only flagged here.
The ones with an ear connection
Four ingredients have some research that touches hearing or tinnitus. Fair warning: it's thin.
Panax ginseng. A 2015 pilot trial of Korean red ginseng in 61 people with chronic tinnitus found that 3,000 mg a day for four weeks improved scores on a standard tinnitus questionnaire. That's a big daily dose, it was a small open-label study, and there was no placebo group. The NCCIH notes on Asian ginseng add that it may lower blood sugar.
GABA. A 2015 brain imaging study in the Journal of Neuroscience compared 14 people with tinnitus to 14 matched people without it and found lower GABA, the brain's main calming chemical, in the hearing part of the brain in the tinnitus group. That's a finding about the brain, not about swallowing GABA. Whether GABA taken by mouth reaches the brain in useful amounts is a debated question.
Green tea and grape seed. Both are rich in antioxidants. Damage to the inner ear's hair cells involves oxidative stress, which is why researchers test antioxidants there. So far that work is mostly in cells and animals. The NCCIH page on green tea is a good reminder that green tea extract also carries caffeine and can affect some blood pressure medicines.
The ones that are about how you feel
A good share of the label is energy and metabolism herbs: maca, guarana, eleuthero, African mango, coleus, grapefruit, raspberry ketones. None of these has hearing research behind it that I could find. My read is that they're there for the "I feel more alert" side of a daily supplement, which matters to people whose ear trouble comes with fatigue and poor sleep.
The company's own explanation is that hearing depends on blood flow, antioxidant protection and the brain's processing, and the blend tries to cover all three at once. The page explaining how the formula is supposed to work lays that out step by step if you want the theory in full.
What the label doesn't tell you
Three things, all of them normal for a proprietary blend but worth writing down:
- The amount of each ingredient. You can't compare the ginseng in a dropper to the 3,000 mg in the study, and the safe assumption is that it's far less.
- The caffeine content. Guarana and green tea both carry it, and the label doesn't give a total. If you're sensitive, take it in the morning and count it as a small cup of tea until you know how it hits you.
- The extract strength. "Grape seed" can mean a standardized extract or ground seed. The label doesn't say which.
None of that is a reason to rule it out. It's a reason to set your expectations correctly: this is a broad, low-dose daily blend, and it's priced like one.
How to read any proprietary blend
This applies well beyond Audifort, so here's the short method I use on any label with a blend.
First, look at the total weight and count the ingredients. Divide one by the other to get a rough sense of scale, knowing the real split is uneven. Second, note the first three or four names, because under FDA labeling rules a blend is listed from most to least by weight, so the top of the list is where most of the milligrams are. In Audifort's case that's maca, grape seed, guarana and African mango. Third, find the two or three ingredients the sales page talks about most and check whether they're near the top or near the bottom. And last, look for anything you'd mention to a pharmacist, which is the next piece.
My highlighter summary
If I had to sum up the label in one line for a friend, it would be this: a long list of small amounts, a few ingredients with early ear research, a group aimed at energy, and a couple you should mention to your pharmacist if you take blood sugar or blood pressure medicine. I'll go into that last part properly in the piece on what to check before you order.