Animal is the gym-culture line of Universal Nutrition, a New Jersey supplement company, and its creatine is sold in more formats than most brands on this site's creatine label index: powder in three sizes, capsules, candy-flavoured chewable tablets and a creatine-plus-HMB blend. Searches for "animal creatine" run to about 3,600 US searches a month.
This profile was assembled on 2 November 2026 from Animal's own store — its product feed, product copy and the Supplement Facts images it shows for each product — and from NSF's two public registers. No Animal product was ordered or tested. The page records what the labels and listings say, side by side.
Five products, four ways to get 5 g
| Product (panel shown 2026-11-02) | Serving | Creatine monohydrate | What else is in a serving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Micronized Creatine powder, 300 / 500 / 1,000 g | 1 scoop (~5 g) | 5,000 mg | nothing listed |
| Micronized Creatine Capsules, 300 capsules | 2 capsules | 2,500 mg | bovine gelatin, magnesium stearate |
| Creatine Chews (Sour Surge panel) | 4 chewable tablets | 5 g | 2 g added sugar, 10 kcal, 25 mg sea salt, sucralose, acesulfame potassium, colours from turmeric and spirulina |
| Creatine HMB+ (Unflavored panel) | 1 heaping scoop (9 g) | 5 g | 3 g calcium HMB, 250 mg sea salt, 100 mg each sodium bicarbonate and monopotassium phosphate, vitamin D 12 mcg |
| Creatine HMB+ stick pack | not read | not read | the feed does not give a count per box |
The plain powder's panel is the shortest possible: one line, creatine monohydrate, 5,000 mg. Its directions are a scoop in 8–12 oz of a drink, and its warning is the generic "consult a physician before using". The capsules need two to reach 2.5 g, so 5 g is four.
HMB+, read closely. Creatine HMB+ pairs creatine with 3 g of calcium β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate, sold under the myHMB name. Two details on the unflavoured version stand out. Its panel gives 30 servings of 9 g, which is 270 g, while the front label of the same tub states net weight 327 g; the heaping scoop is the likeliest explanation, but the label does not reconcile the two. And the unflavoured panel lists natural flavor among its other ingredients. What the creatine-plus-HMB trials found is on creatine and HMB.
What NSF lists, and under which programme
NSF runs two separate public listings, and Animal sits in only one of them.
Contents certification (NSF/ANSI 173). Read on 2 November 2026, it lists Universal Protein Supplements Corp d/b/a Universal Nutrition, New Brunswick, NJ for:
- Animal Creatine Monohydrate, powder, 1 scoop (5 g)
- Animal Creatine Chews in seven flavours, 4 tablets — Candy Crush'd, Fruit Punch, a Walmart Fruit Punch, Grape, Smarties, Sour Surge, Watermelon Lime
- Animal Creatine HMB+ in four flavours — Dragon Berry (10.9 g scoop), Power Punch (11.4 g), Smarties (11.5 g), Unflavored (9 g)
- Animal Ready-To-Go Creatine Capsules, 4 capsules
NSF's note on that listing says the certified products contain the identity and quantity of the dietary ingredients declared and no unacceptable quantities of contaminants. The store tubs carry an "NSF Contents Certified" mark.
Certified for Sport. The register of products also screened for substances banned in sport, read the same day in full, lists no Universal Nutrition or Animal product. For a brand marketed at lifters that distinction is the one that matters to a tested athlete, and it is explained on NSF-certified creatine.
Where the two documents disagree. The capsule panel on Animal's store says a serving is 2 capsules; the NSF listing gives 4 capsules. The store sells two chew flavours (Sour Apple, Lemon Ice) and one HMB+ flavour (Orange Cream Pop) that the NSF listing does not name. Neither source explains the differences; a listing can lag a product range, and a register is only as current as its last update.
Store copy next to the panels
The product descriptions claim that creatine "speeds up muscle growth", "reduces fatigue and tiredness" and "improves brain cognition/function", without citing studies on the page. The powder's ingredient image carries a stamp reading "tested in a 3rd party pharmaceutical grade lab" without naming the lab. The chews' ingredient card says the 25 mg of sea salt "helps to increase muscle pumps"; 25 mg is a fortieth of a gram of salt, and no study is offered. The HMB+ page tells every lifter, in the imperative, to take creatine. What trials show about creatine and cognition is on creatine and the brain, and the general evidence on creatine for muscle growth.
The cost of a gram
| Product | List price, 2026-11-02 | Creatine per pack | Dollars per gram of creatine |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powder, 1,000 g | $50.95 | 1,000 g | $0.051 |
| Powder, 500 g | $26.75 | 500 g | $0.054 |
| Powder, 300 g | $18.50 | 300 g | $0.062 |
| Capsules, 300 | $46.95 | 375 g (150 × 2.5 g) | $0.125 |
| Creatine Chews, 30 servings | $29.95 | 150 g (30 × 5 g) | $0.200 |
| Creatine HMB+, 30 servings | $49.95 | 150 g (30 × 5 g) + 90 g HMB | $0.333 (includes the HMB) |
Our arithmetic: grams of creatine per pack from the panels, then price ÷ grams; prices are before tax, shipping and the store's subscription discount. The chews cost about four times the large tub per gram, the capsules about two and a half times. Across brands, the per-gram comparison lives on how much creatine costs and the formats are compared on creatine pills v powder and creatine gummies.
What Animal's labels leave out
- The creatine's origin. No panel names a manufacturer, a country or a branded raw material.
- The lab behind "third-party tested". The stamp names none; the NSF contents listing is the checkable part.
- A reconciliation of the HMB+ weights (270 g of servings, 327 g on the front) and of the capsule serving (2 on the panel, 4 at NSF).
- A count for the HMB+ stick pack in the product feed.
Limits of this profile
Panels, prices and NSF listings were read once, on 2 November 2026, and any of them can change without notice. The panel images on a store are the brand's own uploads and may not match the tub on a given shelf; one powder panel image on the store dates from 2023. A register entry shows that a certification exists, not which batch was tested. Nothing here measures what is in a tub.
Sources and dates
- Animal store (animalpak.com) product feed,
/products.json, read 2026-11-02: five creatine products, their variants and list prices. - Animal product pages and their Supplement Facts images, read 2026-11-02: Micronized Creatine (300 g and 500 g panels), Micronized Creatine Capsules (300-capsule panel), Creatine Chews (Sour Surge panel and ingredient card), Creatine HMB+ (Unflavored panel and front label), and the powder's ingredient image.
- NSF dietary supplements contents certification listing (NSF/ANSI 173), trade name "animal", info.nsf.org, read 2026-11-02.
- NSF Certified for Sport, full product register, read 2026-11-02: no Universal Nutrition or Animal listing.