Creatine gummy lab test tracker: every brand that passed — and failed — independent testing
Three testing programmes, 33 products, one uncomfortable pattern. This page collects every brand publicly named, what the lab actually measured, and how much weight each result deserves.
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The headline number: across three public rounds, more than half of tested creatine gummies did not contain the creatine printed on the label. In the same rounds, every creatine powder tested passed.
The tracker — every publicly tested creatine gummy in one table
Three separate laboratories have tested creatine gummies in public. Nobody has put their results in a single table, and nobody publishes a creatinine column at all. This is that table. It is the source of every number elsewhere on this page, it carries the date each result was produced, and it is free to reuse.
Last verified: 15 September 2026. Lab results are re-checked for new rounds monthly; the NSF Certified for Sport registry column was re-queried on the same date. Next scheduled check: October 2026.
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| Product | Lab & date | Label claim | Measured | Creatinine | NSF gummy listings | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Balance creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | — | 0 | Pass |
| Bod creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | — | 0 | Pass |
| Effective Nutra creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | — | 0 | Pass |
| Iron Labs Nutrition creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | — | 0 | Pass |
| Peach Perfect creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | — | 0 | Pass |
| Zhou creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | — | 0 | Pass |
| Astro Labs creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | — | 0 | Fail |
| Beast Bites creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | Detected | 13 | Fail |
| Con-Cret creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | Detected | 0 | Fail |
| Create creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | Detected | 15 | Fail |
| Greabby creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | — | 0 | Fail |
| Njord creatine gummies | NOW Foods (HPLC) 2024 | — | — | — | 0 | Fail |
| Force Factor creatine gummies | SuppCo (ISO 17025) 2025 | 5 g | 6.3 g | Detected | 6 | Pass |
| Create creatine gummies (watermelon) | SuppCo (ISO 17025) 2025 | 4.5 g | 4.59 g | Detected | 15 | Pass |
| DivinusLabs creatine gummies | SuppCo (ISO 17025) 2025 | 5 g | trace (~800 gummies for 5 g) | — | 0 | Fail |
| Happyummmm creatine gummies | SuppCo (ISO 17025) 2025 | 5 g | 0.005 g (~2,000 gummies for 5 g) | — | 0 | Fail |
| EcoWise creatine gummies | SuppCo (ISO 17025) 2025 | 5 g | none detected | — | 0 | Fail |
| Vidabotan creatine gummies | SuppCo (ISO 17025) 2025 | 5 g | none detected | — | 0 | Fail |
| Creatine powders (5 products, pooled) | SuppCo (ISO 17025) 2025 | 5 g | 98-101% of claim | — | — | Pass |
| WellBoost creatine gummies | James Smith / Eurofins 2025-07 | 5 g | 5.55 g | Not reported | 0 | Pass |
| Myvitamins creatine gummies | James Smith / Eurofins 2025-07 | — | within range of claim | Not reported | 0 | Pass |
| Known Nutrition creatine gummies | James Smith / Eurofins 2025-07 | — | within range of claim | Not reported | 0 | Pass |
| Create creatine gummies | James Smith / Eurofins 2025-07 | — | within range of claim | Not reported | 15 | Pass |
| Ovrload creatine gummies | James Smith / Eurofins 2025-07 | — | borderline undetectable | Not reported | 0 | Fail |
| Gains Nutrition creatine gummies | James Smith / Eurofins 2025-07 | — | borderline undetectable | Not reported | 0 | Fail |
| Unique Physique creatine gummies | James Smith / Eurofins 2025-07 | — | borderline undetectable | Not reported | 0 | Fail |
| Supplmnt creatine gummies | James Smith / Eurofins 2025-07 | — | borderline undetectable | Not reported | 0 | Fail |
| Push creatine gummies | James Smith / Eurofins 2025-07 | 5 g | about 0.1 g | Not reported | 0 | Fail |
“Creatinine” records whether the testing lab reported elevated creatinine, the breakdown product of creatine. “NSF gummy listings” is the number of that brand’s creatine gummy products in the NSF Certified for Sport registry on 15 September 2026 — a brand can hold certified powders and no certified gummy, so the format matters. “Not reported” means the round did not publish creatinine figures, not that none was present.
Label check, 15 September 2026: we bought a 90-gummy tub of Create Creatine Gummies (Watermelon) at retail and photographed its Supplement Facts panel. It reads 4.5 g of creatine monohydrate per 3-gummy serving, confirming the label claim the SuppCo round measured against. See the photograph and the full panel transcription.
Download the raw data
The whole tracker is available as a machine-readable file, with a source URL on every row. Free to use, including commercially, with attribution.
creatine-gummy-lab-results.csv · creatine-gummy-lab-results.json
How to cite this tracker
GummyGains, Creatine Gummy Lab Test Tracker, last verified 15 September 2026. https://getgummygains.com/creatine-gummies-lab-tested
Journalists and researchers: the underlying figures belong to NOW Foods, SuppCo and Eurofins respectively, and each row links to the primary report. The compilation, the creatinine column and the NSF registry cross-check are ours. We are happy to answer questions about method — see how we work.
Round 1 — NOW Foods, 13 brands, HPLC
NOW Foods bought 13 creatine gummy products from Amazon and directly from brands, then tested creatine content against label claim by high-performance liquid chromatography. Six met claim. Seven did not. NOW also measured creatinine — the breakdown product — in the failures.
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| Brand | Result | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bear Balance | Met claim | — |
| Bod | Met claim | — |
| Effective Nutra | Met claim | — |
| Iron Labs Nutrition | Met claim | — |
| Peach Perfect | Met claim | — |
| Zhou | Met claim | — |
| Astro Labs | Did not meet claim | — |
| Beast Bites | Did not meet claim | Large creatinine levels detected |
| Con-Cret | Did not meet claim | Large creatinine levels detected |
| Create | Did not meet claim | Large creatinine levels detected · later passed a 2025 round at 4.59 g |
| Greabby | Did not meet claim | — |
| Njord | Did not meet claim | — |
NOW surveyed 13 products; 12 brands were publicly named in reporting on the results.
Round 2 — SuppCo, 11 products, ISO 17025 lab
SuppCo bought 5 powders and 6 gummies off the shelf and sent them to an independent ISO 17025-accredited laboratory. Every powder passed. Four of six gummies failed. This is the round that produced the widely quoted 0.005 g result.
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| Product | Label claim | Measured | Result |
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| Force Factor gummies | 5 g | 6.3 g | Pass |
| Create gummies (watermelon) | 4.5 g | 4.59 g | Pass |
| DivinusLabs gummies | 5 g | trace (~800 gummies for 5 g) | Fail |
| Happyummmm gummies | 5 g | 0.005 g (~2,000 gummies for 5 g) | Fail |
| EcoWise gummies | 5 g | none detected | Fail ×2 lots |
| Vidabotan gummies | 5 g | none detected | Fail |
| All 5 powders tested | 5 g | 98–101% purity | Pass |
The EcoWise detail is the one to remember. EcoWise advertised its own certified testing results on its storefront. SuppCo tested it twice, on two different lots, and it failed both times. A brand's self-reported testing is a marketing claim, not evidence.
Even the two gummies that passed showed significant creatinine — meaning some of the creatine had already degraded in the jar. That is a property of the format, not of those two brands.
Round 3 — James Smith / Eurofins, 9 products, July 2025
In July 2025, UK fitness influencer James Smith sent 9 creatine gummy products to Eurofins for independent testing — the same pattern shows up a third time. Four brands landed within range of their label claim. Five showed borderline-undetectable creatine.
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| Brand | Result | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Wellboost | Passed | 5.55 g measured vs 5 g label — a slight overage |
| Myvitamins | Passed | Within range of claim |
| Known Nutrition | Passed | Within range of claim |
| Create | Passed | Within range of claim — Create's second consecutive pass after SuppCo (Round 2) |
| Ovrload | Failed | Borderline-undetectable creatine |
| Gains Nutrition | Failed | Borderline-undetectable creatine |
| Unique Physique | Failed | Borderline-undetectable creatine |
| Supplmnt | Failed | Borderline-undetectable creatine |
| Push | Failed | Borderline-undetectable creatine |
Create now has two passes out of its last two independent tests. It failed the earlier NOW round, then passed SuppCo (4.59 g vs 4.5 g) and passed this Eurofins round too. Two consecutive newer passes is a genuinely different picture from one old failure — which is exactly why checking the date of a result matters more than checking a brand's reputation.
Exact measured grams were only publicly reported for Wellboost; the other three passing brands were reported as "within range" of claim without a published figure per brand. Source: Nutraceuticals World.
The cross-check nobody else runs: how many certified creatine gummies exist at all
The answer is four brands. On 15 September 2026 the NSF Certified for Sport registry held 2,501 certified products. 259 of them contain creatine. Exactly 37 of those are gummies, and they belong to four companies: Create Wellness (15 listings), Beast Bites (13), Force Factor (6) and Lemme (3). No other brand in the entire programme has a certified creatine gummy.
Most coverage of this category checks whether a particular brand is certified. That is the wrong question, because it cannot tell you how unusual certification is. Searching the registry by product form answers it: of every creatine product NSF has certified, roughly one in seven is a gummy, and those come from four companies out of the dozens selling in the category.
Two details worth carrying:
- Certification and lab failure are not mutually exclusive. Beast Bites holds 13 certified gummy listings and was flagged for elevated creatinine in the NOW round. Certification audits a facility and a batch; it does not follow a jar through its shelf life.
- Powder listings do not cover gummies. Several brands hold certified creatine powders or chews while none of their gummies are listed. The badge on a homepage is brand-level marketing; the registry is product-level evidence.
Method: the NSF Certified for Sport product search was queried on 15 September 2026 and every returned listing recorded, then filtered to listings carrying both the creatine ingredient tag and the gummy product form. Counts are of distinct registry listings, so a brand selling the same flavour under two registry entries counts twice. Anyone can reproduce this at the NSF Certified for Sport product search. Full brand-by-brand detail, flavour by flavour, is on our NSF registry check.
Why the gummy format fails so often
Creatine monohydrate is chemically stable as a dry powder and stays that way for years in a sealed tub. Put it in water and it slowly converts into creatinine — an inert waste product your body simply excretes. Gummy manufacturing uses water and heat by definition, and then the product sits on a shelf for months.
That is why a gummy can be honestly formulated, pass a factory test, and still arrive underdosed. It is also why the fix is not "trust bigger brands" but "look for ongoing third-party certification and recent batch data".
The number almost nobody publishes: impurity limits
Every test round above asks the same question — is the creatine in there at all? There is a second question that almost no consumer brand answers in public: what else came along with it.
Creatine monohydrate is made industrially, and the two byproducts the trade actually worries about are dicyandiamide (DCD) and dihydrotriazine (DHT). Both are manufacturing residues rather than deliberate ingredients, and both are controlled by specification at the raw-material stage — which means the ceiling is set long before a gummy is moulded, by whoever the brand buys its powder from.
On its quality page, Create publishes numeric ceilings: DCD at or below 50 ppm and DHT at or below 3 ppm, alongside a claim of ≥99.9% purity and a statement that batches are tested for purity, potency and label accuracy at launch and again over shelf life to check stability.
What we could and could not verify. Those figures are Create’s own published specification, not an independent measurement, and we have not seen a certificate of analysis for a specific batch. What we can say is narrower and still useful: of the brands on our review list, Create is the only one we found publishing numeric impurity ceilings on its own consumer site at all. We checked Legion and Force Factor and found no equivalent figures. A published limit is not proof; it is a commitment a brand can be held to, and the rest of the category is not making one.
The practical use of this is in comparison, not in isolation. If you are weighing two certified products at similar prices, the one that publishes a number has told you something the other has not. If a brand publishes neither a lab result nor a specification, “pharmaceutical grade” on the tub is a phrase, not a measurement.
How to read any of this without getting burned
- Check the date of the test. The NOW round is the oldest of the three; SuppCo and the James Smith / Eurofins round both landed in mid-2025. Create failed the NOW round and then passed both later rounds. Formulations change. An old failure is a reason to look for a newer result, not an automatic verdict.
- Prefer ongoing certification over one-off tests. NSF Certified for Sport and Informed Sport re-test batches continuously and publish searchable registries.
- Ignore star ratings entirely. All four products that failed the SuppCo round had strong Amazon ratings, and together sold roughly 50,000 units in a single month.
- Ask for a batch COA. Any brand confident in its product will send one. The response time tells you a lot on its own.
Where that leaves the buying decision. Applying our own rules above: Create is the brand with two consecutive newer passes (4.59 g against a 4.5 g claim in the SuppCo/ISO 17025 round, and again in the July 2025 Eurofins round) plus ongoing certification rather than a one-off test. It is also the brand that appears on the failing side of the older NOW round — all of that is on this page on purpose. Buy recent stock, and do not stockpile.
A brand with two consecutive newer passing results — not the average pass rate above
Ongoing NSF registry listing, not a one-off self-reported test
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None beyond buying recent stock, as this page recommends
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Questions about the testing
How many creatine gummies are NSF Certified for Sport?
As of 15 September 2026 the NSF Certified for Sport registry held 2,501 certified products, of which 259 contain creatine and exactly 37 are gummies. Those 37 listings belong to four brands: Create Wellness (15), Beast Bites (13), Force Factor (6) and Lemme (3). No other brand in the programme has a certified creatine gummy. Certification is granted per product, so a brand with certified creatine powder may have no certified gummy.
Can I use this data in my own article or research?
Yes. The tracker is published as CSV and JSON under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with a source URL on every row, and may be reused commercially with attribution to GummyGains. The underlying measurements belong to NOW Foods, SuppCo and Eurofins; the compilation, the creatinine column and the NSF registry cross-check are ours.
Which creatine gummy brands failed lab testing?
In the NOW Foods HPLC round of 13 brands, the ones reported as not meeting label claim were Astro Labs, Beast Bites, Create, Con-Cret, Greabby and Njord. In the SuppCo round, Happyummmm and DivinusLabs contained only trace creatine, and EcoWise and Vidabotan had none detectable. In the James Smith / Eurofins round (July 2025), Ovrload, Gains Nutrition, Unique Physique, Supplmnt and Push all showed borderline-undetectable creatine. Testing dates differ and formulations change — always check for a newer result before treating any of this as current.
Which creatine gummy brands passed?
NOW Foods reported Bear Balance, Bod, Effective Nutra, Iron Labs Nutrition, Peach Perfect and Zhou as meeting label claim. SuppCo's round found Force Factor at 6.3 g against a 5 g label and Create at 4.59 g against a 4.5 g label. The James Smith / Eurofins round found Wellboost, Myvitamins, Known Nutrition and Create within range of claim, with the closest overage at 5.55 g against a 5 g label. Note that Create appears on the passing side of both the SuppCo and Eurofins rounds, after failing the earlier NOW round.
Why do so many creatine gummies fail?
Gummies are manufactured with water and heat, and creatine converts to creatinine in the presence of water over time. A gummy can therefore be correctly dosed on the production line and meaningfully underdosed by the time it reaches a customer. Every failed product in the NOW round showed elevated creatinine, which is the chemical fingerprint of exactly that.
Does a brand's own 'lab tested' claim mean anything?
Not much on its own. EcoWise promoted its own certified testing results and then failed independent testing twice, across two different lots. Self-reported testing has no external auditor. NSF Certified for Sport and Informed Sport are the two programs that carry real weight, because both maintain public registries you can search before you buy.
What did the James Smith / Eurofins creatine gummy test find?
In July 2025, UK fitness influencer James Smith sent 9 creatine gummy products to Eurofins for independent testing. Four passed within range of their label claim (Wellboost, Myvitamins, Known Nutrition and Create), while five showed borderline-undetectable creatine (Ovrload, Gains Nutrition, Unique Physique, Supplmnt and Push). It is the third public test round to find roughly the same failure pattern in the gummy format.
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