Compound LawsREAL-TIME LEGAL INTELLIGENCE
Home / Brands / Zaza Red

Is Zaza Red Legal? Ingredients and State Laws (2026)

Varies by state

As of November 12, 2026, the contents on file for Zaza Red are Tianeptine, per FDA, Tianeptine (Supplement Facts, Zaza Red capsules) and Piper methysticum (kava) (Supplement Facts, Zaza Red capsules). Judged by the law on file for Tianeptine and Kava, the strictest ingredient is illegal in 24, restricted in 3, gray area in 7, legal in 17 of 51 jurisdictions. Official actions on file: 1 (FDA, May 8, 2025). Federal: FDA names Zaza as an example tianeptine product in its warning not to purchase or use any tianeptine product (update of May 8, 2025).

Derived only from the ingredients on file (label or official source, as marked) and the law on file for each. Checked November 7, 2026.
Category
tianeptine product
Product pages
djournal.com/new-albany/county-bans-unregulated-drug-known-as-zaza/article_395e6f6d-2902-5654-aa73-55b01b6c3c07.html

FDA and other official findings (1)

  • FDA, May 8, 2025: In its consumer warning against tianeptine products, FDA lists Zaza among example tianeptine product names and states tianeptine is not approved by FDA for any medical use.
    Read the FDA document

What is in it: label and official sources

The brand’s site (zazared.com) could not be read. The Zaza Red bottle's Supplement Facts panel was read by hand from a photo in a Daily Journal (Mississippi) news story: proprietary blend 700 mg per capsule of Combretum quadrangulare leaf, tianeptine and Piper methysticum, 15 capsules, distributed by M&J Distribution, Villa Rica, GA.

  • Tianeptine · FDA lists Zaza among example tianeptine product names; no amount · Is Tianeptine legal?
    Source: FDA
  • Tianeptine (Supplement Facts, Zaza Red capsules) · in a 700 mg proprietary blend per capsule with Combretum quadrangulare leaf and Piper methysticum; 15 capsules (label in a news photo) · Is Tianeptine legal?
    Label source
  • Piper methysticum (kava) (Supplement Facts, Zaza Red capsules) · in the same 700 mg proprietary blend; no separate amount (label in a news photo) · Is Kava legal?
    Label source
  • Combretum quadrangulare leaf (Supplement Facts, Zaza Red capsules) · in the same proprietary blend not tracked
    Label source

Only ingredients disclosed on the label or identified by an official source (FDA, another government agency or lab, an accredited lab or a court record) are listed, each with its source. Compound Laws does not guess at undisclosed contents.

Federal

FDA names Zaza as an example tianeptine product in its warning not to purchase or use any tianeptine product (update of May 8, 2025). Source

Zaza Red ingredients by state

LegalRestrictedGray areaIllegalNot yet verified

The dot and the map show the strictest status among the disclosed ingredients in that state.

Cite this page

Compound Analytics. "Is Zaza Red Legal? Ingredients and State Laws (2026)." Compound Laws, https://compoundlaws.com/brands/zaza-red/. Accessed November 13, 2026.

Compound Laws, published by Compound Analytics, reports the record: statutes verbatim, official citations, enforcement facts and verification dates. Nothing here is legal advice and nothing here describes how to get around a law. A jurisdiction with no verified row is reported as not yet verified, never as legal. Found an error? Corrections policy.

About · Methodology · Glossary · Changes · RSS · Data licensing · llms.txt · Sitemap