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Sodium Carboxymethyl Starch.

A tablet disintegrant that helps your supplement break apart and release its ingredients quickly. Causes rapid tablet disintegration in your stomach so active ingredients can dissolve and absorb faster.

EarlyResearch strength500 to 1,500mgDaily amount

Reviewed March 2026

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Rapid tablet disintegrationImproves ingredient release

What Sodium Carboxymethyl Starch is, and what it does.

Does it work
Manufacturing ingredient that actually serves an important function. Your tablet wouldn't work as well without it.
How much to take
There's no amount for you to take. The formulator builds it into the tablet at a small percentage, and no dose figure sits on our record.
Time to feel it
It isn't an active and has no onset of its own. It swells on contact with water and breaks the tablet apart within minutes, which is what lets the actives dissolve.
The first dose
Helps your tablet break apart within minutes.
With regular use
Nothing accumulates, because it isn't absorbed. Its ongoing job is making each new tablet release its contents on schedule.
How well tolerated
Well tolerated. Not absorbed. Passes through your GI tract.
How it feels
You don't feel it working. Your tablet just works better because of it.
The overlooked benefit
It's why a tablet can be pressed hard enough to survive shipping and still fall apart in your stomach. Without a disintegrant, a dense tablet can pass through largely intact.

500 to 1,500mg a day is where Sodium Carboxymethyl Starch works.

How much to take a dayHigh confidence
500 to 1,500mg
Daily maintenanceThe everyday amount, and where most daily supplements sit. This is the one you take month after month.
2,300mgClinical territory. Trials run high on purpose, for a set number of weeks, against one measured outcome. Impressive to hit, and not what a daily product is for.
Above 3,500mgPast what the research covers. More capsules rather than more effect.
MORE EFFECT ↑01,500mg2,300mg plateauDAILY DOSE →
The shaded band is where the dosing trials landed.

Source: AHA 2020 Guidelines; WHO 2023 sodium intake recommendations

The proof, claim by claim.

These words describe the research, not the molecule's worth. Research strength is how much work stands behind one claim, and it is never a product score.

  • Improves tablet disintegration
PubMedCochraneClinicalTrials.govNIH ODSSUPP.AILabs test. IngredientMD verifies.PubMedCochraneClinicalTrials.govNIH ODSSUPP.AILabs test. IngredientMD verifies.

No pairing data for Sodium Carboxymethyl Starch yet.

Nothing on file for Sodium Carboxymethyl Starch, either from a combination trial or from settled biochemistry. When either lands, it appears here with its source.

No pairing for Sodium Carboxymethyl Starch has cleared review yet.

Stitching two separate single-ingredient studies into a pairing is the one thing this engine will not do. When a study of the combination itself holds up at source, it lands here with its citation.

No invented synergy. Where actives were studied on their own rather than together, each shows on its own evidence, never a combined effect no trial measured.

Research strength. Research strength says how much work stands behind the combination. It is never a product score.

Independent record. Every finding is cited to a named trial, dated, and never written by the brand.

24 pairings are live across the library today. Checked 25 August 2026.

Who should be cautious

Nothing specific on file for Sodium Carboxymethyl Starch. Match the label to the daily amount above, and tell your doctor what you take.

Not medical advice. Show the label to your pharmacist.

FDA Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Consult your healthcare provider before starting any supplement regimen.

On the shelf

What Sodium Carboxymethyl Starch comes in.

Products in our catalog that carry it, read the same way every product here is read.