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Dr. Berg TUDCA Supplement, 30 Capsules Review
#9 of 11 · Practitioner-Brand Premium✓ Label verified · Supplement Facts read Sep 7, 2026Real retailer photo, cut out. Label unedited.
Skip it. Practitioner-brand premium without the substance to match. Dr.
~$34.99~$1.17 per 250mg cap
Why It Scores 6.1 — And The Label Line Behind Each Number
Third-Party Testing & Purity
30% of score
Non-GMO, gluten-free, GMP — baseline quality assurance, but no published HPLC-vs-USP or dual-lab program to justify the premium over better-tested rivals. Purity is fine but no different in kind from cheaper mainstream options.
- Testing
- GMP facility; standard quality assurance
Form & Bioavailability
20% of score
Standard 250mg TUDCA in a vegetable capsule (a plus for vegetarians), as a clean single-ingredient formula.
- Form
- Vegetable capsule (single-ingredient)
Dose vs Functional Range
20% of score
250mg/cap at the low end of the range; the 30-count bottle makes a sustained 500mg/day habit both expensive and inconvenient to maintain.
- Dose
- 250mg per capsule
Tolerability & Safety
15% of score
Well tolerated single-ingredient 250mg with the usual mild bile effects. Veg-cap shell suits vegetarians. No specific concerns.
Value
15% of score
~$1.17/cap is the highest per-dose price here, in a small 30-count bottle. The premium buys brand, not extra testing, dose, or a stack — the weakest value in the roundup.
- Count
- 30 capsules
- Cost per dose
- ~$1.17/cap · ~$2.34 per 500mg/day
- More Specs
- Standardization
- Single-ingredient, non-GMO, gluten-free
Label verified. Every figure read from the Supplement Facts photo, Sep 7, 2026.
Marketing Claims Vs. Reality
Dr. Berg TUDCA supports liver, bile flow and gallbladder health.
TUDCA has a sound bile-flow mechanism (PMID 16741551), but there is no OTC human outcome trial validating these endpoints for this product, and it’s a standard 250mg dose.
The premium price reflects higher product quality.
No published testing, dose, or formulation advantage over cheaper rivals justifies the ~$1.17/cap price; the premium appears to reflect brand rather than verifiable quality.
What Our Test Actually Found
The price doesn’t buy anything extra
At more than double Nutricost’s per-cap cost, Dr. Berg offers the same 250mg dose, no stack, and no deeper published testing. The premium is brand equity — legitimate to value, but it isn’t verification you can point to on a COA.
Small bottle compounds the cost
A 30-count bottle at 250mg means one month at best, and running 500mg/day burns it in 15 days at ~$2.34 daily. For an ongoing regimen the economics are the worst here.
Full analysis: all pros & cons (6), buy if / skip if
- Vegetarian-friendly veg-cap shell
- Clean single-ingredient 250mg formulation
- Reputable practitioner brand with strong audience trust
- Most expensive per dose in the roundup (~$1.17/cap)
- Small 30-count bottle, frequent reorders
- No published testing, dose, or stack advantage to justify the premium
- Vegetarian-friendly veg-cap shell
- Clean single-ingredient 250mg formulation
- Reputable practitioner brand with strong audience trust
- Most expensive per dose in the roundup (~$1.17/cap)
- Small 30-count bottle, frequent reorders
- No published testing, dose, or stack advantage to justify the premium
Dr. Berg delivers a standard 250mg TUDCA in a vegetable capsule, but at ~$1.17/cap it’s the priciest per dose here with no offsetting advantage — no stack, no deeper testing, no higher dose, and only a 30-count bottle. If you trust the brand and want convenience, fine; on pure value-for-verification it’s hard to justify over Nutricost or Double Wood. Skip unless brand loyalty is decisive.
Dr. Berg’s TUDCA is a competent single-ingredient 250mg vegetable capsule marketed for liver, bile flow and gallbladder support. The problem is the math: at roughly $1.17 per capsule it’s the most expensive per dose in this entire roundup, and the small 30-count bottle means you’re refilling monthly. It doesn’t add a milk-thistle or NAC stack, doesn’t publish deeper testing than mainstream rivals, and doesn’t offer a higher dose. What you’re buying is the practitioner brand and its audience trust — a real thing for some buyers, but not one that shows up in the capsule.
Pay for the brand, not the bottle
Dr. Berg’s TUDCA is a fine 250mg capsule wrapped in a premium the product doesn’t earn — no deeper testing, no bigger dose, no stack, and the smallest, priciest bottle here. If brand trust genuinely drives your decision, it’s competent. On a clear-eyed value-and-verification basis, Nutricost and Double Wood beat it decisively. Skip unless loyalty is the point.
If This Doesn’t Fit — Try These
03Nutricost 250 mg
Nutricost is the safe, sane default for a first TUDCA bottle — trusted brand, real third-party testing, honest single-ingredient label, and a price that does not sting.
01Double Wood
Double Wood wins because it removes the one thing you cannot verify yourself: whether the powder is real, potent TUDCA.
Quick Answers
Is Dr. Berg TUDCA better because of the brand?
Not measurably. It’s a standard 250mg dose with baseline testing. The brand adds trust and content, not a verifiable quality edge over cheaper, equally- or better-tested products.
Why is it ranked below cheaper options?
Because ranking weights verification and dose value, not brand. At the highest per-dose price with no offsetting advantage, it loses to products that deliver more per dollar.
Sources & Further Reading
2 peer-reviewed sources, each linked to PubMed
- [1] Beuers U. Drug insight: mechanisms and sites of action of ursodeoxycholic acid in cholestasis. Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006;3(6):318-328. PMID 16741551 — Drug insight: mechanisms and sites of action of ursodeoxycholic acid in cholestasis. Establishes the bile-flow and cytoprotective mechanisms behind liver/gallbladder support claims for TUDCA.
- [2] Rudic JS, et al. Ursodeoxycholic acid for primary biliary cirrhosis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;12:CD000551. PMID 23235576 — Ursodeoxycholic acid for primary biliary cirrhosis. Cochrane review showing biochemical improvement without proven mortality benefit — a reminder that brand marketing outruns the outcome evidence.
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