Is Alevia Amla Superfruit Extract a Scam? Reviews, Comparison & Customer Complaints

After completing this guide to the best organic amla powders, several readers wrote to me asking about one brand in particular — Alevia Amla Superfruit Extract.

In this article, I’ll cover what I found during my research, if Alevia’s amla capsules are legit or a scam, customer complaints, what to watch out for if you do want to order this product, and a better organic alternative at a much lower monthly cost.

What is Alevia Amla Superfruit Extract, What’s In It and Is It Any Good?

The first thing I see when I go to this company’s website, alevia.com, is a “TikTok Viral” badge. In my experience, with over 10 years researching nutritional products, that’s usually a bad sign. Social media influencers on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok aren’t cheap. Deals are made to promote products like this, and that’s a business cost that usually ends up being added to the retail price a customer pays.

Alevia’s website is well-designed and visually appealing, but makes some fairly bold health claims the FDA might be interested in. Amla, also known as amalaki and Indian gooseberry, is a superfood with many potential benefits, but statements like “activates your mitochondria to support nerve function, ease joint discomfort, and fight inflammation where it starts” are ambitious for a small bottle of stock standard amla pills.

Amla Superfruit Extract by Alevia has 60 capsules with 500 mg of amla powder in each. The company says it’s third-party tested, made in a GMP-certified facility in the USA, vegan and gluten-free. You are supposed to take 2 a day for a 30-day supply.

The Supplement Facts label shows the main ingredient as amla fruit extract, with brown rice flour and magnesium stearate as other ingredients. Magnesium stearate is a common anti-caking agent but brown rice flour is just a filler.

There’s nothing particularly special about Alevia’s Amla Superfruit Extract. You can find dozens of amla capsules like this on iHerb or Amazon, and even on the supermarket shelves of Walmart, Target, Whole Foods and Sprouts.

What is unusual is the price tag. Alevia’s Amla Superfruit Extract goes for $39.99 at alevia.com. That’s $1.33 a day and quite a rip-off for what you get, in my opinion.

By comparison, Nutricost organic amla capsules come in a larger bottle of 120 capsules for a 60-day supply and no brown rice filler. Nutricost’s amla supplement is also made in the USA in a GMP-compliant facility, third-party tested, vegan and gluten-free, and importantly certified organic.

Despite this, it currently goes for just $12.95 here on the iHerb listing. That’s only $0.21 a day. The Nutricost brand has also been around for decades longer than Alevia and built a well-deserved reputation for quality and safety with their supplements.

Is Alevia Amla Organic or Not?

Alevia has an Amazon store where their product is listed as “Alevia Organic Amla Capsules.” The Ingredients section there also has “Organic Amla Fruit Powder (Phyllanthus emblica), Vegetable Capsule (HPMC), Brown Rice Flour, Magnesium Stearate.”

However, analyzing Alevia’s website, I couldn’t find any reference to their products being certified organic. That’s a bit strange, as many customers look for organic supplements and it’s a selling point that brands usually highlight.

Alevia doesn’t say where they source their amla powder from either, though it’s almost certainly India, the world’s main supplier of this ingredient. Organically certified Indian gooseberry powder is common and wouldn’t cost a supplement manufacturer that much more. In fact, most of the best amla supplements here are certified organic and I’d never take one that wasn’t.

Alevia Reviews and Customer Complaints

Alevia offers just 3 products on their website — Amla Superfruit Extract, Pomegranate Extract and Odorless Garlic Extract. Their amla supplement appears to be the main focus for this brand, with the Pomegranate and Odorless Garlic product pages looking like newer copies of the same template.

I went through the ordering process for the Amla Superfruit product on the brand’s website and immediately noticed issues that could confuse many customers. If you are still thinking of ordering Alevia’s Amla capsules then please read this section carefully first.

The first option is “Buy One – Save $10.00 – $29.99”, but if you hit the big green “Add to Cart” button you’ve taken the first step to signing up for an ongoing subscription with monthly deliveries. There is a “Buy Once – No Savings – $39.99” link underneath, but it’s in much smaller grey text and easy to miss.

On the checkout page you could hit one of the Express Checkout options up the top and miss another small grey text line underneath that says, “By continuing with your payment, you agree to the future charges listed on this page and the cancellation policy.”

When I saw this, I expected there to be a large number of customer complaints and negative reviews on reputational sites, such as Trustpilot and Better Business Bureau. But I could not find Alevia on BBB and Trustpilot actually had a positive overall score.

Sorting Trustpilot reviews by most recent though, all the latest feedback was 1-star ratings and angry customers warning about what they considered poor business practices and a scam. Some example comments:

• “I ordered it as a trial. The company signed me up for an ongoing subscription without my knowledge. I told them to cancel the subscription immediately. Beware!”
• “Didn’t sign up to continue the purchase. But I suppose the hidden scam was there and I just didn’t see it. They’ve now taken more money without any notification. This is a rip off company and now I have to fight to get my money back. Can’t even contact customer service.”
• “I have tried repeatedly to contact this company. They will not answer an email or the phone. The customer service is horrible and I will be returning my order.”
• “Beware of this company. They are total scammers! They will automatically direct debit your card for a second time even if you didn’t sign up or ticked a box for subscriptions.”
• “I have sent three email requests to return for a refund. No one answers the phones. As far as I’m concerned this company is nothing but a scam.”

Is Alevia Amla Legit or a Scam?

Amla berries are an antioxidant-rich superfood and a popular and easy to find supplement. There are dozens of high-quality organic amla powder brands like these available in 2026.

Alevia is obviously good at social media marketing, but their Amla Superfruit Extract product is just ordinary 500 mg amla powder capsules. If, as the company says, this supplement is third-party tested and made in a GMP-certified facility in the USA, then those are positives.

There are two big negatives with this brand though, in my opinion. The first is that they are extremely overpriced at $39.99 for a single bottle of 60 pills. You could get 120 capsules of certified organic amla powder from Nutricost for a third of Alevia’s cost here on iHerb (currently cheapest). Taken on a per month basis, Nutricost’s amla supplement is actually 6 times less per serving.

And the second negative is the confusing ordering process on alevia.com. There are many recent consumer complaints on Trustpilot with customer reviewers calling Alevia Amla a scam and a rip off.

I personally think both the cart and checkout pages on Alevia’s site deliberately minimize the fact that customers are signing up for a subscription and I’m not surprised there are so many recent complaints.

Alevia Amla Superfruit Extract isn’t quite as bad as the Rosabella Beetroot scam, but I still think it’s sad to see companies making very average products from superfoods like amla berries or beetroot, charging way over the top prices for them, and getting people to sign up for unwanted subscriptions, all due to TikTok marketing and so-called social media influencers.

On Superfood Profiles I’ll continue to call out nutritional supplement scams like this when I see them. Thank you for reading and please let me know in the comments below your experiences with Alevia’s Amla capsules.