Is SodaSlim Safe? Side Effects, Liver Reports and Who Should Not Take It

One capsule is 138 mg of caffeine anhydrous, plus up to about 3.9 mg from the green tea extract. MedlinePlus puts an 8-ounce cup of coffee at 95 to 200 mg. So a capsule is roughly a cup of coffee, taken before you have had any coffee.

FDA cites 400 mg a day as an amount “not generally associated with negative effects” in healthy adults, and adds that there is “wide variation in both how sensitive people are to the effects of caffeine and how fast they eliminate it from the body”. A capsule plus two coffees and a cola can reach that figure before the afternoon.

MedlinePlus lists what too much caffeine does: it can make you feel jittery, disturb sleep and, with heavy use, cause dependency, so you need more to get the same effect. Stopping suddenly after weeks of daily use can bring headaches, drowsiness and irritability. Effects peak within an hour and last four to six hours.

NCCIH adds the category warning: some weight-loss supplements contain large amounts of caffeine, which may cause increased heart rate and abnormal heart rhythms. 138 mg is not a large amount on its own. Added to a normal day, it can be.

Green coffee bean extract. ODS says it seems to be safe at up to 200 mg a day for 12 weeks, and that it might cause headache and urinary tract infections. This capsule carries 130 mg, inside that amount. Note that the published safety period is twelve weeks; the six-bottle pack is twenty-six.

Raspberry ketone. ODS: it “hasn’t been studied enough to tell if it’s safe”. That is the whole federal safety record. There is no amount to compare 130 mg against, because nobody has published one.

Caffeine anhydrous is covered above. The capsule shell, hypromellose, is a plain vegetable material with nothing to add here.

No. No trial of this formula has been published, so no one has studied these five ingredients together at these amounts over any period. NCCIH’s general warning applies: many supplements marketed for weight loss have not been tested for safety.

FDA keeps a public list of weight-loss products found to contain hidden prescription drugs. SodaSlim is not on that list. We mention it as category context, not as a finding about this product. No certificate of analysis was supplied, so purity has not been verified by anyone we can name.

SodaSlim is not FDA approved, and no dietary supplement is. ODS puts the general position plainly: FDA does not determine whether dietary supplements are effective before they are marketed. If you have a medical question about this capsule, the right person to ask is your doctor, not a sales page and not this site.

Our view is that the honest safety summary is short. SodaSlim is a cup of coffee in a capsule plus two rows with liver reports. For a healthy adult with room in their day for the caffeine, the federal pages describe uncommon risks. For anyone in the excluded groups, the label and the federal pages say the same thing: ask first, or do not start.

The label deserves credit for printing a real caution and declaring the caffeine. The marketing pack deserves none for its “doctor formulated” roundel, which names nobody who formulated anything.

If you have any medical condition or take any medicine, a doctor or pharmacist should see the panel before you take the first capsule. That is not a disclaimer. It is the most useful sentence on this page.

Last updated October 15, 2026 · Written by SodaSlim Editorial Desk · Medically reviewed by Dr. Carrie Lam, MD, Physician