SodaSlim Ingredients: All Five, And The Dose Each Was Tested At

Caffeine is the first ingredient the artwork names and the only one in this capsule with an effect a person can feel on the day they take it. It blocks adenosine receptors, which is why alertness arrives within the hour, and it raises resting energy expenditure by a measurable amount. the 1989 thermogenesis study gave 100 mg every two hours for twelve hours and measured a rise in both metabolic rate and daily energy expenditure in lean and post-obese volunteers alike.

On weight specifically, a 2019 dose-response meta-analysis pooled the randomised trials and found small reductions in weight, body mass index and fat mass, with the effect larger at higher intakes. Small is the operative word. Caffeine is a real thermogenic and a weak one, and it is being asked here to support a claim about appetite as well.

Anhydrous simply means the water has been removed, which makes it a concentrated powder rather than a different substance. A capsule can therefore hold anything from a cup of tea to several espressos, and the amount in this one is not given.

Green coffee bean is unroasted coffee, standardised for chlorogenic acid, the compound roasting destroys. The proposed mechanism is slower carbohydrate absorption and a change in how glucose is handled after a meal.

The evidence is thinner than the ingredient's fame suggests. the 2011 systematic review pooled the early randomised trials, at 180 to 200 mg of extract a day, and concluded the studies were few, small and poorly reported. More recently a 2023 meta-analysis of chlorogenic acid trials pooled chlorogenic acid trials on body weight, and a dose-response meta-analysis on blood glucose found a dose-dependent reduction in fasting blood glucose across trials running from roughly 200 to 800 mg a day.

An eight-week trial, an eight-week trial in metabolic syndrome, gave 400 mg of decaffeinated extract twice daily to people with metabolic syndrome and reported changes in waist circumference and appetite scores. The decaffeinated detail matters: the version in this capsule is not stated to be decaffeinated, so any caffeine it carries adds to the caffeine anhydrous already in the formula.

One more thing belongs here rather than buried in a source list. The single most quoted green coffee study, the retracted 2012 crossover study, was withdrawn. It is cited on this website as a retraction and never as a finding.

Raspberry ketone is the aroma compound that makes a raspberry smell like a raspberry. It has been used as a food flavouring for decades and its safety at flavouring levels is uncontroversial.

Its reputation as a fat-loss ingredient comes from the 2005 mouse study, which fed mice up to 2% of their entire diet as raspberry ketone and reported reduced fat accumulation. Two percent of the diet is not a dose that translates into a human capsule under any assumption. A later mouse study, a 2017 mouse study that did not replicate it, found the adiposity effect disappeared once the animals' reduced food intake was accounted for, which points at appetite rather than at fat metabolism.

There has never been a trial of raspberry ketone on its own in people. The one human study that has ever contained it, the only human trial that has included it, gave it inside a multi-ingredient supplement alongside exercise and a diet programme, so nothing in that result can be assigned to the ketone.

That is the honest position on this ingredient, and this desk will not write around it.

Garcinia is included for hydroxycitric acid, which inhibits ATP citrate lyase, an enzyme in the pathway that converts carbohydrate into fat. The enzyme step is real and demonstrable in a laboratory.

Whether it changes anything in a person is a different question, and it has been asked properly. the 1998 JAMA trial randomised 135 people to 1,500 mg of hydroxycitric acid a day or placebo for twelve weeks, with a controlled diet, and found no difference between the groups in fat mass lost. the 2011 meta-analysis of garcinia trials later pooled the trials and found a small difference in body weight of doubtful clinical importance.

The appetite side has been tested too. the energy intake and satiety trial gave 900 mg a day and the two-week satiety and fat oxidation trial gave 500 mg three times a day for two weeks. Both looked at satiety and energy intake and found effects that were modest at best.

Garcinia also carries the only serious safety file among these five. A run of case reports, including a 2016 acute liver failure case report and a case that required a liver transplant, describes acute liver injury in people taking garcinia-containing products. a 2025 review of garcinia hepatotoxicity reviewed that literature in 2025. The cases are rare against the number of bottles sold, and they are documented.

Green tea extract is standardised for catechins, principally epigallocatechin gallate. It is the ingredient with the best claim to belong beside caffeine in a formula like this one, because the two were tested together and behaved better together than either did alone.

the 1999 green tea extract trial gave an extract supplying 90 mg of EGCG and 50 mg of caffeine three times a day and measured a rise in 24-hour energy expenditure greater than the caffeine alone accounted for. a meta-analysis of catechin and caffeine trials pooled the catechin and caffeine trials and found the same direction of effect. a brown adipose tissue trial went further and showed catechins with caffeine activating brown adipose tissue over five weeks.

On weight outcomes the picture cools. the Cochrane review of green tea for weight concluded the effect on weight was small and not statistically significant. a 12-week trial in obese women gave 400 mg of extract three times a day for twelve weeks, and the high-dose green tea extract trial gave 856.8 mg of EGCG daily for twelve weeks and reported a modest reduction in weight and waist circumference.

Dose matters at the top end for a different reason. the US Pharmacopeia hepatotoxicity review reviewed the hepatotoxicity reports and concluded that green tea extract taken as a concentrated supplement, especially on an empty stomach, carries a small risk of liver injury that brewed tea does not. That risk sits at the high-dose end of the range, which is one more place where an unstated amount leaves a reader guessing.