NMN is a single molecule, so a bottle has exactly two things to get right: how much is in the capsule, and whether the powder is still NMN. Human trials that raised blood NAD+ ran from 250 mg to 900 mg a day, and the middle of that range, 500 to 600 mg, is where the measured changes held up best. On the 29 labels we read, 21 put 300 mg or less in each capsule. Some ask you to take two, some do not, and either way the number on the front is not the number in your hand.
Purity is the second half. NMN is expensive to make and unstable if it is made or stored badly, and degraded powder weighs exactly the same in a capsule. 11 of 29 labels print no purity figure at all. 4 more stop at 98%. A percentage on the panel, backed by a lab test, is the only way to know that 500 mg is 500 mg of NMN and not 500 mg of something that used to be.
Then there is what else is in the capsule. 8 of 29 formulas are stacks: NMN plus TMG, resveratrol, or a longevity blend, so the capsule space is shared and the NMN number shrinks. 5 of 29 still use a gelatin shell. One formula of 29 printed 500 mg of NMN in a single plant-cellulose capsule at a stated purity of 99.9%, with nothing else inside.
Took NMN for months and felt nothing? Count the capsules first.Most disappointment in this category is arithmetic. A 250 mg capsule taken once a day is half the dose most trials used, and a stack with a big number on the front may hold less NMN than the number suggests. Read the milligrams per capsule and the purity figure on the panel. If either is missing, that is your answer.