A 525 mg apple-cider-vinegar-and-BHB-salt gummy blend sold through a storefront whose own promotional pages describe a broader formula than the one printed on its label, whose refund terms disagree with themselves, and whose flagship research citation was formally retracted in 2025.
We link to Amazon and other authorized retailers and may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.The physical Supplement Facts panel we located discloses a 525 mg proprietary blend of apple cider vinegar and BHB salts (calcium, magnesium, and sodium beta-hydroxybutyrate) — nothing else active. A separate BurnTide sales-page variant, complete with its own citation list, describes an expanded formula that adds green tea extract, cayenne pepper extract, L-carnitine, and pomegranate extract. None of those four appear anywhere on the label we reviewed. See "What's actually disclosed" below for the side-by-side.
BurnTide's own support page tells buyers to "return all bottles (even if empty)" in one section, then states elsewhere that only "unused bottles in perfect condition" qualify for a refund. Those two instructions contradict each other, and we found no note reconciling them. Anyone requesting a refund should get the exact requirement confirmed in writing before opening or discarding anything.
BurnTide's guarantee window runs "60 days from date of order," not from the date the product arrives. With standard shipping quoted at five to seven business days, roughly a week of the window is already gone before a buyer has even opened the box.
BurnTide's own Terms of Use state that the terms are governed by the laws of Barbados and that "any dispute shall be subject to binding arbitration in St. Michael, Barbados," with class actions and class arbitration explicitly waived. The same document refers to the seller only as "Burntide" or "the Company" — we found no LLC, Inc., or other formal legal entity name disclosed anywhere on the vendor's own site.
The distributor address on BurnTide's own label — 11870 62nd St N, Largo, FL 33773 — is the same address printed on the labels of at least two other, differently branded proprietary-blend supplements we checked (a liquid "ketone drops" product and a capsule digestive product), each sold under its own separate brand name and web presence. A shared fulfillment address across unrelated brand names is common in the private-label supplement industry and isn't proof of anything on its own, but it does mean BurnTide isn't a standalone company with its own dedicated operation — it's one storefront among several run through the same address.
BurnTide is sold as a once-daily gummy pairing apple cider vinegar with BHB (beta-hydroxybutyrate) salts, positioned around general metabolic and energy support rather than any specific medical outcome. The vendor's guarantee copy frames success in subjective terms — feeling more energized and generally better about the results — rather than promising a specific number on a scale. The standard FDA disclaimer language (not evaluated by the FDA, not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease) appears on the vendor's own site.
The vendor also states its gummies are "Assembled in the USA" at a facility described as FDA-registered and GMP-certified. Worth knowing: FDA registration of a facility is a notification-and-inspection-access requirement, not an FDA safety or effectiveness approval of the finished product itself. The label itself also notes the gummies use a mix of domestic and foreign-sourced ingredients, not exclusively U.S.-sourced ones.
We pulled the Supplement Facts panel directly from the vendor's own labels page and compared it against a separate BurnTide sales-page variant that lists a citation section for additional ingredients. The two don't match.
One gummy per serving, 30 servings per bottle. 8 calories, 2 g total carbohydrate, 2 g total sugars per gummy. Active content: a 525 mg proprietary blend of apple cider vinegar and BHB salts (calcium, magnesium, and sodium beta-hydroxybutyrate) — the label does not break out how much of the 525 mg is vinegar versus BHB salts. Other ingredients: corn syrup, purified water, cane sugar, apple pectin, citric acid, sodium citrate, tapioca starch, natural flavors, and beet root powder (for color). Distributor listed as BurnTide, 11870 62nd St N, Largo, FL 33773.
The same product name, marketed with a six-ingredient formula: apple cider vinegar and BHB salts as above, plus green tea extract, cayenne pepper extract, L-carnitine, and pomegranate extract — each with its own supporting citation on that page. None of those four additional ingredients appear on the Supplement Facts panel we reviewed, and their citations reference general ingredient research rather than any testing of BurnTide's actual gummy formula.
Because the label is the only version we can verify as the actual finished product, everything else on this page evaluates the two-ingredient, 525 mg apple-cider-vinegar-and-BHB-salt blend the label confirms — not the six-ingredient version some marketing describes.
Much of the general public interest in pairing apple cider vinegar with a body-composition goal traces back to a single widely shared clinical trial, published in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health in March 2024. On September 23, 2025, BMJ Group formally retracted that paper. The retraction notice cites concerns the authors' analyses could not be replicated, multiple statistical errors, questions about the reliability of the underlying raw data, inadequate methods reporting, and a lack of prospective trial registration. The journal's own editor-in-chief said, of the original decision to publish it, "in hindsight, this was the wrong decision to make." This is not the study BurnTide's own marketing cites by name, but it is the trial behind most of the general "apple cider vinegar helps with body composition" claims that circulate online, and BurnTide's marketing sits inside that same claim category.
We also checked what newer, non-retracted research shows, and it's mixed rather than clean either way. A September 2025 systematic review and meta-analysis in Nutrients (17(18):3000) pooled 10 randomized trials and reported statistically significant reductions in body weight, BMI, and waist circumference with daily apple cider vinegar intake. But that analysis itself includes the retracted 2024 trial among its pooled data, the authors rated only 2 of the 10 included trials as low risk of bias across all domains, and they flagged funnel-plot asymmetry consistent with possible publication bias. A pooled "significant" result built substantially on weaker studies — including one that has since been retracted — is not the same thing as a settled, independently reproducible finding.
Separately, a November 2025 randomized, placebo-controlled trial in Nutrients (17(22):3582, n=51 adults over 8 weeks) tested BHB mineral salts specifically, added on top of a modest calorie deficit both groups followed. Both the BHB group and the placebo-only group saw within-group reductions in weight and fat mass, with the BHB group's numbers somewhat larger. But the statistical test of whether BHB itself added a measurable effect beyond the shared calorie deficit — the group-by-time interaction — did not reach significance for fat mass or lean-to-fat ratio. In plain terms: this trial doesn't clearly establish that the BHB salts did anything beyond what the calorie deficit both groups were already following would be expected to do on its own.
Taken together: the trial most responsible for popularizing this ingredient pairing was retracted for irreproducible statistics, the newest pooled analysis that did find a significant result leans heavily on lower-quality and retracted data, and the newest dedicated BHB-salts trial didn't show a statistically clear added benefit from BHB itself. None of that proves the ingredients do nothing — it means the research record doesn't currently support a confident claim either way, and BurnTide's own marketing doesn't cite any of this newer context.
Beyond the label-vs-marketing mismatch and the guarantee-term issues detailed above, a few additional points are worth flagging together. The 525 mg proprietary blend hides the actual split between apple cider vinegar and BHB salts, so there's no way to compare either ingredient's real dose against the amounts used in the research cited for that ingredient category. We found no Better Business Bureau profile specifically tied to BurnTide as of this report. Disputes are contractually routed to binding arbitration in Barbados rather than U.S. courts, with class actions waived, and no formal legal entity name is disclosed anywhere on the vendor's own site — only the storefront name "Burntide." And as noted above, the Largo, FL distributor address on BurnTide's label is shared with at least two other separately branded proprietary-blend products, which is consistent with a shared private-label operation running multiple storefronts rather than one company standing behind one product.
Three one-time-payment tiers on the vendor's own checkout: a 2-bottle option at $79/bottle ($158 total), a 3-bottle option at $69/bottle ($207 total), and a 6-bottle option at $49/bottle ($294 total, with free U.S. shipping). We found no recurring subscription or auto-ship charge disclosed. Independent write-ups that went through checkout reported the same three tiers.
Stated as a 60-day money-back guarantee, with the clock starting at the order date rather than delivery. Return requirements are stated inconsistently within the vendor's own support materials (see flag above) — get the exact requirement in writing before requesting a refund.
Given the label-vs-marketing mismatch, the conflicting refund terms, and the unsettled state of the underlying research described above, we're not comfortable directing readers to BurnTide's own checkout. If you're specifically looking for an apple-cider-vinegar gummy with individually disclosed, non-proprietary-blend dosing from an established brand, Goli Nutrition's Apple Cider Vinegar Gummies are a widely available option sold through Amazon — the label lists 500 mg of apple cider vinegar per gummy directly, rather than folding it into an undisclosed blend.
View on AmazonBurnTide's physical label is straightforward as far as it goes: a 525 mg apple-cider-vinegar-and-BHB-salt blend, standard gummy fillers, a named distributor address. What we can't get comfortable with is everything around it — a marketing variant that describes a different, six-ingredient formula than the one on the label; refund instructions that contradict each other within the vendor's own support materials; a 60-day window that starts ticking before the product typically arrives; disputes routed to arbitration in Barbados with no disclosed legal entity behind the storefront; and a distributor address shared with other, unrelated proprietary-blend brands. Layer on a research record where the most-cited original trial was retracted for irreproducible statistics and the newer replacements are mixed at best, and we don't think this specific product, at this price, through this checkout, is one we can recommend with confidence — independent of whether apple cider vinegar or BHB salts have any general wellness interest on their own.
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