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ReviewsSodaTide Reviews: What 1,222 Written Reviews Say
The distributor reports 4.5 out of 5 from 1,222 written reviews against 6,191 orders, with 85% saying they would recommend it.
Two thirds are at five stars and a tenth at three or below. The liked column is the one-capsule routine and the sixty-day window; the disliked column is a slow start, and wanting more in the first week. The typical wait buyers name is 4–8 weeks.
What the numbers say, what the complaints are actually about, and the four things a review aggregate of this kind cannot tell anybody.
The SodaTide review figures, as the distributor reports them
The SodaTide star distribution, and where the complaints sit
Two thirds at five, a fifth at four, and roughly one in ten at three or below. That is a flattering shape and it is also the shape almost every distributor-run review panel produces, so the distribution is not the useful part.
The useful part is what the low scores are about. On the distributor's own summary they are about time: a slow start, and wanting more in the first week. They are not about parcels arriving damaged, refunds being refused, or the capsule causing a problem. A product whose main complaint is that it was slow is a product whose buyers kept taking it long enough to notice.
That also happens to be the complaint the published work predicts. The fastest person-level outcome anyone has measured from chicory inulin is bowel habit at four weeks, in a four-week randomised trial. A buyer disappointed at day seven is disappointed on schedule.
The SodaTide reviewer roster
Daily habit stuck. Reordered before the last bottle. 6 bottles · day 15
Daily habit stuck. Reordered before the last bottle. 2 bottles · day 15
Daily habit stuck. Reordered before the last bottle. 6 bottles · day 57
Fair by week six. Wanted more in the first fortnight. 2 bottles · day 26
Daily habit stuck. Reordered before the last bottle. 6 bottles · day 53
Fair by week six. Wanted more in the first fortnight. 6 bottles · day 29
Daily habit stuck. Reordered before the last bottle. 3 bottles · day 30
Fair by week six. Wanted more in the first fortnight. 6 bottles · day 25
Eight buyers, two review bodies between them. That is what the distributor supplied, and printing it accurately means saying so rather than dressing eight copies of two sentences as eight testimonies. The two themes are: the daily habit stuck and a reorder followed; and it was fair by week six, with more wanted in the first fortnight.
The day numbers beside each name are more informative than the text. They run from day 15 to day 57, which is squarely the four-to-eight-week window the summary names, and the two longest — day 53 and day 57 — are both six-bottle buyers. Whatever the reviews are worth, the people writing them had been taking it for weeks rather than days.
- “Daily capsule.” — Owen, 43
- “Wait past week two.” — Ted, 64
Four things SodaTide reviews cannot tell you
How much of anything is in the capsule
No reviewer has weighed it and no review can supply a figure the label does not carry. A five-star review is a report about an experience, not a measurement of a dose.
Whether it would work for you
The variable that matters most is one no review mentions: how much fermentable fibre is already in the reviewer's diet. Somebody eating beans daily has far less headroom than somebody eating none, and the fibre intake literature suggests most people are a long way from the intakes associated with the best outcomes.
Whether the sample is representative
1,222 reviews against 6,191 orders is about one in five, and the people who write are not a random fifth. Nothing here is a criticism of these particular figures; it is true of every distributor-run panel.
What happened to people who stopped
A review panel collects from buyers who engaged with it. Somebody who took four capsules, disliked the wind and used the guarantee has no reason to write anything at all, and the complaint column would look different if they had.
Reading SodaTide reviews against the published work
| What reviewers report | What the research says | Do they agree? |
|---|---|---|
| Nothing in week one | The fastest measured outcome from inulin is bowel habit, at four weeks | Yes, closely |
| Four to eight weeks before judging it | The shortest trials reporting appetite changes ran 8 to 13 days at 16 g a day; bowel trials ran 4 weeks | Broadly |
| A settling-in period with wind | Flatulence is the most frequently reported symptom in chicory inulin tolerance studies, and it is dose-related | Yes |
| The habit is easy to keep | Not measured in any trial. Adherence is rarely reported | Not comparable |
| Reordering before the bottle runs out | Not an outcome any trial measures | Not comparable |
Two of five rows are not comparable, which is itself worth noticing: reviews and trials are measuring different things.
The agreement in the first three rows is the most credible thing about this review set. A panel of invented reviews would report a fast, dramatic result, because that is what invented reviews report. This one reports a slow start and a settling-in period, which is both less flattering and closer to what the literature would predict.
Who publishes this SodaTide website?
- Micka A, Siepelmeyer A, Holz A, et al. Effect of consumption of chicory inulin on bowel function in healthy subjects with constipation: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2017;68(1):82-89. PMID 27492975. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27492975/
- Marteau P, Jacobs H, Cazaubiel M, et al. Effects of chicory inulin in constipated elderly people: a double-blind controlled trial. Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2011;62(2):164-70. PMID 21091293. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21091293/
- Bonnema AL, Kolberg LW, Thomas W, et al. Gastrointestinal tolerance of chicory inulin products. J Am Diet Assoc. 2010;110(6):865-8. PMID 20497775. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20497775/
- Verhoef SP, Meyer D, Westerterp KR. Effects of oligofructose on appetite profile, glucagon-like peptide 1 and peptide YY3-36 concentrations and energy intake. Br J Nutr. 2011;106(11):1757-62. PMID 21679485. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21679485/
- Reynolds A, Mann J, Cummings J, et al. Carbohydrate quality and human health: a series of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Lancet. 2019;393(10170):434-445. PMID 30638909. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30638909/
- Nicolucci AC, Hume MP, Martinez I, et al. Prebiotics Reduce Body Fat and Alter Intestinal Microbiota in Children Who Are Overweight or With Obesity. Gastroenterology. 2017;153(3):711-722. PMID 28596023. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28596023/
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