Daily Mineral Complex

What is in this bottle, and what did it cost to make?

Formula

4 ingredients

Dose formCapsules per servingServings per containerCapsule size

Capsule fill0.86 of 0.95 ml (90%)

Ingredient	Per serving	Unit	Assay	Overage	$/kg	Lot min	Weighed out
							1.43 g476.19 mg each
							22 mg7.33 mg each
							11 mg3.67 mg each
							75 mg25 mg each

The run

What you order and how it gets made

Bottles in this run

Packaging

ContainerClosureLabel

Tamper-evident neckbandExpected by most retailers.DesiccantNeeded for probiotics and anything hygroscopic.

Conversion and quality

Filling and packing$/unitYield loss%Blend lost to the equipment.Setup and changeover$Charged once for the run.Testing and release$Identity, potency, heavy metals, micro.Inbound freight$Raw materials and components to the plant.

Nothing physically or commercially impossible in this formula. That is not the same as being ready to sell, but it is a real starting point.

Cost to make, per bottle

$3.41

$0.114 per serving. $17,027 for the whole run of 5,000.

Lead time: 10 weeks
Fill weight: 512.19 mg each

Raw materials$1.6147%

Delivery format$0.82824%

Packaging$0.36911%

Conversion$0.43013%

Quality$0.1705%

Line	Per bottle	Per run
Raw materials4 ingredients at 3 percent yield loss	$1.50	$7,485
Lot minimum overbuy4 materials sold in lots larger than this run needs	$0.111	$555
Capsule shells90 x Size 00 (most common)	$0.828	$4,140
Container275cc HDPE round	$0.246	$1,230
Closure45/400 ribbed, foam liner	$0.046	$230
LabelWhite BOPP, 4 colour	$0.073	$365
Tamper-evident neckbandTamper evidence	$0.0044	$22.00
Filling and packingCapsules line rate	$0.360	$1,800
Run setup and changeover$350 once, spread over 5,000 units	$0.070	$350
Testing and release$850 per batch, spread over 5,000 units	$0.170	$850
Total	$3.41	$17,027

Of $3.41, $0.240 is fixed cost spread over this run and $3.17 moves with every extra bottle. A green dot is a reference band, amber is typical trade practice, grey is a number you entered.

I buy supplements

Anyone standing in front of a shelf

Price on the shelf$Type in what a bottle like this actually sells for.

Markup over cost to make

4.0x

$3.41 of materials and making

Cost per serving at the shelf

$0.450

costs $0.114 to make

Of every dollar you spend

12c

reaches the active ingredients

Active per serving

215.15 mg

$0.209 per 100 mg

What you are paying for

Splitting $13.49

Active ingredients	$1.61	12%
Bottle, cap, label, capsules	$1.20	9%
Making and testing it	$0.600	4%
Everything else in the price	$10.08	75%

Everything else is not waste. It is the brand, the retailer, the marketing, the returns and the profit, and every product on the shelf has it. It is worth knowing how big it is.

Against the Daily Value

Per serving

Nutrient	Amount	% DV
magnesium	200 mg	48%
vitamin d3	50 mcg	250%
vitamin k2	100 mcg	83%
zinc	15 mg	136%

Bars are scaled so a full bar is 500 percent of the Daily Value. Amber means the dose is above the published adult upper intake level.