REPORT · data verified 2026-07-18
We machine-read every creatine product in the NIH's Dietary Supplement Label Database and scored each label against the 3 g/day maintenance dose from the ISSN position stand. No lab tests, no brand deals — just what each label discloses, with every product linking back to its official NIH entry.
1,217 products with a disclosed dose. Green bars are at or above the 3 g clinical dose; red are under it.
A blend's printed weight is the weight of the whole mixture, not of any ingredient in it. The classic move: a "Creatine Pump Complex — 10.9 g" where the 10.9 g includes beta-alanine, citrulline, glycerol and taurine, and the actual creatine content appears nowhere on the label. Real example, scored →
Our scoring never counts a blend's total as an ingredient's dose. The one exception: blends whose disclosed composition is entirely creatine forms (a "creatine blend" of monohydrate + anhydrous at 4 g total is 4 g of creatine). All scoring rules →
All figures are what each label itself discloses — nothing here is hidden or alleged. One product per brand, lowest dose first. Click through to check our reading against the NIH label.
Creatine HCl products dose at ~750 mg on purpose — the marketing position is that HCl needs less. We scored everything against the monohydrate-basis evidence, where 3 g/day is what's actually studied; the HCl-equivalence evidence is thin, but that's the label's argument, not a hidden dose.
This is label transparency, not lab verification. A label can disclose 3 g and contain less — third-party testing (which we don't do) is the only check on that. Salt forms (malate, citrate) count at their disclosed weight.
The full scored dataset (1,999 rows: brand, product, verdict, dose, blend flag, NIH label link) is free to use with attribution: creatine_dose_data.csv →
Cite as: "LabelDose Creatine Dose Report 2026, labeldose.com, data verified 2026-07-18, source: NIH DSLD." Browse it interactively on the category page.
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