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Inuline in food supplements

2,021 supplements declared in France contain Inuline as a substance or active ingredient.

Other names in the Compl'Alim list: Inulin.

Compl'Alim declarations. Compl'Alim, food supplement declarations (France), retrieved 23 October 2026.

What health agencies say

An opinion says what the agency recommends; it is not a rule binding on the product.

AFSSA (now ANSES) considered it useful to inform consumers that excessive intake of inulin may cause intestinal disorders, and advised against promoting supplements with a high inulin content.

AFSSA, opinion of 8 September 2008, 2007-SA-0231.

What we know about this ingredient

A molecule found naturally in plants or organisms; in a supplement it may be extracted from them, made by fermentation or synthesised: the declaration does not say which.

Basis: one CosIngThe European Commission's database of cosmetic ingredients. CAS and natural occurrence recorded in Wikidata (LOTUS database).

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Natural occurrence recorded in Wikidata (LOTUS database): 14 taxa; examples: Dipsacus asper, Dipsacus asperoides, Arctium lappa, Platycodon grandiflorus, Arctium minus.

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Associated research

ClinicalTrials.gov · A trial is not proof: it tests a hypothesis.

2026-11-01

Other names: inulina (Spanish), inulina (Italian), inulina (Portuguese).

Wikidata: names of substances in six languages and taxa in which they occur (largely from the LOTUS database), retrieved 23 October 2026.

Same substance in cosmetics: INULIN.

In plain words

À quoi il sert, selon les fabricants

Objectifs les plus souvent annoncés pour les compléments qui en contiennent (Inuline) : immunité (335 produits), digestion (289 produits), sport (282 produits), transit (166 produits), peau (118 produits).

Ce sont les objectifs déclarés par les fabricants à l'administration, pas des effets démontrés. Sur l'emballage, seules les allégations de santé autorisées par l'Union peuvent être écrites.

Compl'Alim, food supplement declarations (France), retrieved 23 October 2026.

What the registers say, country by country

Each line repeats what an official register says on the date it was consulted. Not being in a register means neither allowed nor banned.

Compl'Alim ingredient list (France): listed.

Compl'Alim, reference list of ingredients, retrieved 21 October 2026.

Canada, licensed natural health products (LNHPD): 715 products.

Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD), Health Canada: licensed products, ingredients, doses, uses and risks, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Health Canada, LNHPD)

Licence du gouvernement ouvert – Canada 2.0 (OGL-Canada 2.0)

United States, supplement labels (DSLD; supplements need no prior approval): 583 products.

Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD), US National Institutes of Health: current and off-market labels, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Source: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Dietary Supplement Label Database (CC0); US market labels.

Japan, notified foods with function claims: 245 products.

CAA, Japan Foods with Function Claims notifications, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Source : Agence de la consommation du Japon (CAA), https://www.fld.caa.go.jp/caaks/s/cssc01/. Données traitées par CompoAtlas à partir de l'export officiel ; cette présentation est celle de CompoAtlas et n'est pas publiée telle quelle par l'État japonais. Public Data License 1.0.

Public Data License 1.0 (公共データ利用規約 第1.0版), compatible CC BY 4.0

Malaysia, registered products: 144 products.

NPRA, Malaysian pharmaceutical products register, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Ministère de la santé de Malaisie / NPRA, Pharmaceutical Products, CC BY 4.0

CC BY 4.0

Taiwan, registered products: 136 products.

TFDA, Taiwan tablets, capsules and medical nutrition registers, retrieved 27 October 2026.

Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA), Open Government Data License, version 1.0

Open Government Data License, version 1.0

United States, supplements listed by the USDA: 91 products.

USDA FoodData Central Branded, supplement cohort, retrieved 29 October 2026.

Source : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central, Branded Foods. Données publiées sous CC0 1.0 Universal, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.

CC0 1.0 Universal, domaine public

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