Creatine Monohydrate Chews, 150 Count

Description

Creatine monohydrate chews, 150 to a tub, three chews making a 3 gram serving, so 50 servings at about 90 cents each. There is no clever chemistry here and we are not going to pretend otherwise. These creatine monohydrate chews hold the same compound as the powder, in a format you can carry in a pocket, and the format is what you are paying for.

What is in the tub

The arithmetic against the tub, printed plainly

Our 500 gram tub of powder is 100 servings of 5 grams at about 32 cents a serving, which is roughly 6.4 cents a gram. These creatine monohydrate chews work out near 30 cents a gram. That is somewhere between four and five times the price for the same molecule.

If that seems like an odd thing for a shop to point out, the alternative is letting you work it out after the second tub. There are good reasons to buy a chew: travel, a gym bag, a day with no shaker and no water. Cost per gram is not one of them, and the powder is on the performance page at the price above.

Three grams against the five the studies used

The conventional maintenance amount in the literature is 3 to 5 grams a day, with 5 grams the most commonly administered figure and 20 grams a day used for five to seven days in loading protocols. A serving of three chews is 3 grams, which sits at the bottom of that range rather than in the middle of it.

So six chews rather than three is what matching a 5 gram protocol looks like, and the tub then holds 25 servings rather than 50. That is a description of what the research administered set against what the label says, which is the only honest way to present a format like this.

What the research measured

Creatine is the most studied supplement in sports nutrition, and the endpoints recorded across that literature include intramuscular phosphocreatine measured by magnetic resonance spectroscopy, repeated sprint and resistance exercise performance, and lean mass by various body composition methods. Those are measurements from published trials rather than claims about this tub.

Why a chew weighs more than a gram

Because a chewable tablet needs a sweetener, a binder and something to stop it setting into a rock. The creatine figure on the panel is the creatine, not the chew weight, and the two are printed separately so nobody has to guess which number is which.

Where creatine monohydrate chews make sense

Travel, a packed gym bag, a race morning, a week in a hotel with no kitchen. Creatine monohydrate chews need no water, no scoop and no shaker, and they pass a security check without a conversation. If that describes a few days a month rather than every day, one tub of creatine monohydrate chews alongside the powder is the arrangement most people settle on. These are a convenience purchase and we would rather label them as one, which is what our note on price per milligram is for.

Taste and texture

Firm, slightly grainy, sweet. Creatine monohydrate chews have a faintly bitter edge that sweetener covers rather than removes, and three chews take a minute to get through. Keep the tub closed, because the chews go hard in dry air and sticky in humid air.

Impurity testing, which matters on any creatine

Creatine is synthesised, and the two impurities worth measuring are creatinine, its degradation product, and dicyandiamide, a residue of the manufacturing route. Both are assayed on every lot of creatine monohydrate chews and both figures are published with the certificate rather than described as within specification.

Testing

Identity, creatine content and the two impurity figures on every lot, by a laboratory with no ownership tie to this business, with heavy metals and microbials alongside. Under strength lots are withdrawn and the failing report stays published. For the doses studied across this category, the NIH fact sheet on supplements for exercise and athletic performance is free to read, and your lot certificate is linked above.