Orgain built its name on plant protein, and its creatine arrived as a line extension: an unflavoured powder listed in March 2025, a chromium blend in November 2025, then packets, a lemonade flavour and a protein-plus-creatine powder in 2026. Its creatine draws about 19,000 US searches a month, fifth in this series. The thread through this page is a mismatch between two of the brand's own documents. The label filed in the US government's label database directs four scoops a day, and the store directs one.
This analysis reads what Orgain publishes (its label, its store and its claims) against the certifiers' registers and the literature. It does not test the product, and it places no brand above or below another.
Five products, one creatine
Every product is built on the same ingredient, stated as 5 g of micronized creatine monohydrate per serving. Read from orgain.com's own product feed and pages on 2026-10-02:
| Product | Size | Store price | Creatine per serving | Per gram of creatine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creatine Monohydrate Powder, unflavoured | 17.64 oz (500 g), 100 servings | $22.99 ($19.54 on subscription) | 5 g | $0.046 |
| Creatine Powder, single-serve stick packs | 30 packets | $31.99 | 5 g | $0.213 |
| Creatine Powder, lemonade (listed July 2026) | 14.07 oz (399 g) | $22.99 | 5 g | not calculable: servings per tub not published on the page |
| Creatine Lean Muscle (with chromium) | 8.82 oz (250 g) | $21.99 | 5 g + 200 mcg chromium | not calculable |
| 30g Protein + Creatine Powder, vanilla | 28.16 oz | $44.99 | "5g+" with "30g+" plant protein | not calculable |
The packets cost about 4.6 times the canister per gram of the same creatine. That is the price of portioning, and it is the largest spread in Orgain's range. The lemonade flavour is sweetened with stevia and flavoured with citric acid and natural flavours, according to its page.
The label and the store give different directions
The Orgain Creatine Unflavored label in the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD 336391, entered 2025-08-22) is a 675 g tub of 135 servings. Its directions:
"For adults, add 1 scoop (5 g) to 8-10 fl oz of water, juice, or your favorite liquid. Stir well, or until powder is completely dissolved. Recommended four (4) times throughout the day."
Four 5 g scoops is 20 g a day, the amount used in short loading protocols, and the label as recorded states no time limit. At that rate the tub's 135 servings last about 34 days.
Orgain's store FAQ, read on 2026-10-02, says something else: "5 grams per day for maintenance, though some people start with a 'loading phase' of 20 grams per day for 5-7 days". It adds that loading "is not necessary" and that 5 g a day reaches muscle saturation "after about 30 days". The product copy also carries a footnote describing a five-day 20 g loading protocol.
The store's version matches the trial literature this site has already set out: 20 g a day for about five days, then 3–5 g a day, or 3 g a day from the start, which reaches the same muscle level in about four weeks (see creatine loading phase and how much creatine the trials used). The label as recorded reads as the loading amount with no end. The database cannot show whether the printed label has since changed. The store's canister is a different size (500 g against 675 g), so the label in the database may describe an earlier tub. This page reports the two texts as they stand on their dates.
What the certification claims say, and what could be checked
Informed Choice. Orgain's store says, for the unflavoured powder, the lemonade flavour and the packets, that "Orgain Creatine is certified with Informed Choice", a programme that tests for substances prohibited in sport. The Informed Choice register answered an automated request on 2026-10-02 with a refusal (HTTP 403), so the listing was not read for this page. The claim is reported as Orgain's, unconfirmed here. The 2025 label in the NIH database lists two seals, Certified B Corporation and IGEN Non-GMO Tested, and no Informed Choice mark.
NSF Certified for Sport. NSF's register, searched on 2026-10-02, returned no Orgain product. The Momentous and Thorne pages in this series record listings there, and the Nutricost and Optimum Nutrition pages record none. What that mark covers is set out in NSF's own description.
What the claims cover. Both programmes are described as screening finished products for substances banned in sport. That is a contamination question; it says nothing about whether a product works.
What "micronized" changes, and the arithmetic on the scoop
Orgain says its micronized creatine "can dissolve more easily than the typical particle-size of creatine". Smaller particles dissolve faster. They do not raise how much creatine water can hold, which is set by temperature: about 6 g per litre at 4°C, 14 g at 20°C, 34 g at 50°C and 45 g at 60°C (Jäger 2011, PMC3080578). More on the particle question is on what micronisation does and does not change.
Applied to the label's own directions: fully dissolving 5 g at room temperature takes about 357 mL. The label's 8–10 fl oz is 237–296 mL, short of that, so some powder will stay suspended unless the liquid is warmer. That is a physical fact about creatine, not a defect in this brand. Undissolved creatine still counts when swallowed. Which drinks change the picture, and how acidity affects stability over hours and days, is on what to mix creatine with.
What the label and store omit
- Who makes the creatine, and where. No manufacturer, country of origin or branded source (such as Creapure) is named on the label or the store pages.
- A certificate of analysis. None is published on the product pages read.
- Servings per container for the lemonade, chromium and protein products, which is why their cost per gram cannot be calculated from the store.
- Age. The label says "Not intended for persons under the age of 18"; the store's FAQ repeats it. The evidence for teenagers is on creatine for teens.
The brand's health claims, against the literature
The store says creatine supports "muscle size, strength, power, and recovery" alongside training, and "brain health". The training claims match the creatine monohydrate literature summarised on creatine benefits. Orgain's own footnote limits the brain claim to "vegetarians and aging individuals", which is narrower than the headline and closer to the trials collected on creatine and brain claims. None of these claims has been tested on Orgain's product specifically, and none needs to be: they are claims about creatine monohydrate.
Where it sits in the series
The side-by-side record for every brand profiled, in alphabetical order, is on creatine brands. For the forms behind the labels, see types of creatine.
Limits of this page
Prices are orgain.com list prices on 2026-10-02 and change; retailer prices differ. The NIH label record is a snapshot from 2025-08-22 of a 675 g tub that is not the canister the store sells today. The Informed Choice listing could not be read. This page records the brand's published claims and the registers, not a laboratory analysis of any tub.
Sources and dates
- NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Dietary Supplement Label Database: Orgain Creatine Unflavored, label 336391 (entered 2025-08-22), read via the DSLD API 2026-10-02 — serving, servings per container, directions, seals, precautions.
- Orgain, Creatine Monohydrate Powder, Creatine Powder – Lemonade, single-serve stick packs, Creatine Lean Muscle and 30g Protein + Creatine, pages and product feed read 2026-10-02 — sizes, prices, certification claims, FAQ dosage text.
- NSF Certified for Sport, register search for Orgain, read 2026-10-02 → no listing.
- Informed Choice register, search for Orgain, requested 2026-10-02 → HTTP 403, not read.
- Jäger R, Purpura M, Shao A, Inoue T, Kreider RB. Analysis of the efficacy, safety, and regulatory status of novel forms of creatine. Amino Acids 2011;40:1369–83 — PMID 21424716, full text PMC3080578 (solubility by temperature).