BulkSupplements sells single ingredients in plain pouches, sized from a 100 g trial bag to a 25 kg sack, and creatine monohydrate is one of its core lines: unflavoured powder, four flavours, capsules, plus creatine ethyl ester. Searches for its creatine run to about 4,000 US searches a month.
The sources are BulkSupplements' own store, read on 28 October 2026 — its product feed, the printed Supplement Facts panels and the product-page text — checked against NSF's Certified for Sport register. Nothing was bought, measured or tested. The brand is not ranked; the creatine label index lists it with the others.
Three formats, one number
| BulkSupplements product (panel shown 2026-10-28) | Serving | Creatine monohydrate | Other ingredients |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creatine Monohydrate (Micronized) Powder, unflavoured | 2 tsp (about 5 g) | 5 g | none |
| Creatine Monohydrate Powder, Orange Smash (700 g, 100 servings) | 3 tsp (about 7 g) | 5 g | organic orange powder, malic acid, organic maltodextrin, stevia leaf extract |
| Creatine Monohydrate Capsules (420 count, 60 servings) | 7 capsules | 5,000 mg | bovine gelatin capsules |
The flavoured bags — Orange Smash, Mango Tango, Sour Apple, Lemon Italian Ice — are sold at 700 g for 100 servings: 500 g of creatine and about 200 g of flavouring and carrier per bag (our arithmetic from the panel). The Orange Smash panel was the one read in full; the others share the bag size and serving count in the feed.
Seven capsules per serving puts about 714 mg of creatine monohydrate in each (5,000 ÷ 7). Gelatin capsules are not vegetarian; the powder has no other ingredient at all.
What the panels do not say: where the creatine was made or by whom. "Micronized" is in the unflavoured product's name, with no particle size given.
The NSF listings
NSF's Certified for Sport register, read on 28 October 2026, lists five BulkSupplements creatine powders: unflavoured, Lemon Italian Ice, Mango Tango, Orange Smash and Sour Green Apple, in a group of about twenty BulkSupplements certified products that also includes whey isolate, casein, beta-alanine and glutamine. The capsules did not appear. What NSF's sport programme checks is on the NSF-certified creatine page.
The store's own "Trusted Quality" graphic shows three badges — "third party tested", "manufactured to cGMP standards", "quality inspected" — and names no laboratory, standard or lot. The NSF register is the checkable version of the first badge, for five of the products.
The directions on the page
The unflavoured powder's page gives a loading phase and a maintenance phase. The text and the image on the same page do not agree:
| Where on the page (2026-10-28) | Loading, days 1–5 | Maintenance, day 6 on |
|---|---|---|
| Suggested Use image | 2 tsp (about 5 g), 4 times daily | 2 tsp (about 5 g) once daily |
| Suggested Use text | 2 tsp (about 5 g), 4 times daily | 3 tsp (about 7 grams) once daily |
| Supplement Facts panel | — | serving: 2 tsp (about 5 g) |
Three teaspoons of the unflavoured powder would be about 7.5 g of creatine, not the 5 g a flavoured scoop holds; the "3 tsp (about 7 grams)" wording matches the flavoured panel word for word. The same text block also refers to "Flavored Creatine" with "a tropical twist" on a product that has no flavour. Both look like copy carried over from the flavoured listing — an inference from the wording, not something the store has said. The directions are BulkSupplements'; what the loading trials actually gave, and over what time, is on the creatine loading phase page.
Both sets of directions end with "drink 8–10 glasses of water daily", without a source. The warning text sends anyone pregnant, breastfeeding, with a medical condition or on medication to their healthcare provider before use.
What a gram costs
| BulkSupplements product | Price, 2026-10-28 | Grams of creatine | Dollars per gram |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unflavoured, 25 kg | $270.29 | 25,000 g | $0.011 |
| Unflavoured, 5 kg | $139.97 | 5,000 g | $0.028 |
| Unflavoured, 1 kg | $29.97 | 1,000 g | $0.030 |
| Unflavoured, 500 g | $22.97 | 500 g | $0.046 |
| Unflavoured, 250 g | $20.97 | 250 g | $0.084 |
| Unflavoured, 100 g | $17.97 | 100 g | $0.180 |
| Flavoured, 700 g (Sour Apple / Mango / Lemon / Orange) | $28.97–$33.97 | 500 g | $0.058–$0.068 |
| Capsules, 420 count | $23.97 | 300 g | $0.080 |
| Capsules, 210 count | $20.97 | 150 g | $0.140 |
The arithmetic is ours. The spread is the brand's whole pitch: the 100 g pouch costs more than sixteen times as much per gram as the 25 kg sack. At 5 g a day the 25 kg sack is 5,000 servings, about 13.7 years; how long creatine powder keeps is on does creatine expire.
Two listings, two prices. The store sells the same products under a second listing, "Creatine Monohydrate Capsules", which also carries the powders. On 28 October 2026 the two listings disagreed: 500 g of powder at $22.97 and $19.97; 1 kg at $29.97 and $30.97; 210 capsules at $20.97 and $21.96; 420 capsules at $23.97 and $27.96. The table above uses the main powder listing. How these figures sit against other brands and formats is on how much creatine costs.
Gaps in BulkSupplements' disclosure
- No source or manufacturer for the creatine, and no particle size for the "micronized" powder.
- No laboratory named behind "third party tested"; NSF covers five powders, not the capsules.
- Conflicting maintenance directions on the unflavoured page, and flavoured-product copy on an unflavoured listing.
- No label archive entry read: the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database refused automated queries on 2026-10-28.
Limits of this analysis
This page reads what BulkSupplements publishes. It does not test identity, purity or creatine content, and it cannot see changes made to the store after 28 October 2026. Of the four flavoured panels, Orange Smash was read in full. NSF's register shows a listing exists, not which lots were tested. Prices change daily on large catalogues; dates are given so the figures can be rechecked.
Sources and dates
- BulkSupplements store, product feed (
bulksupplements.com/products.json, pages 1–4): Creatine Monohydrate (Micronized) Powder, the four flavoured powders, Creatine Monohydrate Capsules and Creatine Ethyl Ester HCl — variants and prices, read 2026-10-28. Supplement Facts images for the unflavoured 500 g powder, Orange Smash 700 g and 420-count capsules; the Suggested Use and Trusted Quality images; the unflavoured product page's Suggested Use, Warnings and How to Use text, read on that date. - NSF Certified for Sport, certified products register, BulkSupplements listings, read 2026-10-28.
- NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database API: request refused (403) on 2026-10-28; not read.