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Creatine supplements are one of the best and most cost-efficient ways you can support goals related to muscle growth and athletic performance. It’s the most-studied sports nutrition supplement and it has a well-documented history of helping people increase strength, build muscle, reduce muscle recovery time post-workout, and enhance overall exercise performance. Typically, this dietary supplement comes in the form of creatine powder or creatine capsule.

But what if you could get your daily dose of creatine in a more tasty way? It’s true, creatine now comes in a next-level form: gummy candy. From gummy bears to chewable tablets, our expert product testers, personal trainers, and nutrition coaches bought, tested, and analyzed the best creatine gummies to find a unique way to rep out more curls in the gym.

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Medical disclaimer: This article is intended for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for medical advice. For health advice, contact a licensed healthcare provider.

Best Creatine Gummies in 2024

• Best Creatine Gummies Overall: SWOLY Creatine Gummies
• Best-Tasting Creatine Gummies: Create Creatine Gummies
• Best Creatine Chews: Animal Creatine Chews

Best Creatine Gummies Overall: SWOLY Creatine Gummies

Good for: A full daily dose of creatine in the form of delicious gummy bears

These creatine monohydrate gummies pack a full clinical dose of creatine into five delicious, strawberry-flavored gummy bears. Each gummy contains a little less than 1 gram of creatine (0.8 grams per gummy, to be exact), and a five-gummy serving gets you to a 4-gram dose of creatine monohydrate.

Kate Meier, GGR Head of Content, tried the SWOLY gummies along with some members of her Olympic weightlifting team. They were a big hit, to say the least.

“These are friggin delicious. Dangerously delicious. Like, need-to-make-sure-my-child-doesn’t-find-these-or-she-will-eat-them-all kind of delicious!” Kate says. “They remind me of the best fruit snacks ever (Annie’s Homegrown Organic fruit snacks). I’d eat these as a snack every day.”

Other ingredients include sucrose, dextrose, maltodextrin, natural and artificial flavors, stearic acid, and citric acid—ya know, things that make a gummy a gummy.

Kate noted no side effects other than an addiction to the gummies, which she is only sort of joking about. While you do have to take five gummies for 4 grams of creatine, Kate says she’d “happily eat 50 of these in one sitting.”

If you’re concerned about macros, however, you should know that there are 30 calories in a serving, including 2.5 grams of added sugar.

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Best-Tasting Creatine Gummies: Create Creatine Gummies

Good for: Candy purists who would definitely judge a creatine gummy for not being candy-y enough

Create Creatine Gummies also use creatine monohydrate and contain 5 grams of creatine in a serving size of five gummies. They are vegan, non-GMO, and gluten-free, and each serving contains 50 calories, 12 grams of carbohydrates, and 5 grams of sugar (3 grams of added sugar).

The other ingredients include tapioca syrup, sugar, water, pectin, malic acid, natural flavor, and natural color, which are all things I’d expect to find in gummy candy for taste and texture.

Kate says that the Create gummies “Definitely taste like an orange gummy; not quite as sweet as candy, but pretty darn close—really pleasant. I love a gummy. I wish every supplement came in gummy form. These are a super fun treat!”

During testing, Kate experienced no side effects and said that the “positive effect is that I’m 5 million times more likely to take a gummy than I am to take a powder.” I concur!

If you’re hesitant about trying creatine gummies, Create is a good option to try because they offer full refunds if you’re not satisfied with your purchase.

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Best Creatine Chews: Animal Creatine Chews

Good for: People who like Sweet Tarts

If you’re someone who would reach for a roll of Sweet Tarts over a bag of sour worms, Animal Creatine Chews might be for you. These are large, chewable tablets similar to Flintstones children’s multivitamins…If you know, you know.

In four chews, you get 5 grams of creatine, meaning there are 1.25 grams of creatine per chew. Kate and her weightlifting team tried these, too, and had mixed thoughts on the taste and texture.

“They are chalky, just like a sweet tart. You definitely need a drink after chewing these tablets,” Kate says. “They do dry your mouth out a little. It’s not a dealbreaker, but something to know.”

“You have to take four of these to get 5 grams of creatine, and they aren’t small tablets,” Kate continues. “Jacob took all four at once, I did two and two. It’s a bit of a mouthful to do all four at once, but it’s doable. Again, you definitely want to have water on hand! I wouldn’t want to pop these in my mouth without something to wash it down.”

In addition to creatine, the Animal chews also contain sea salt and AstraGin. Sea salt provides sodium, an important electrolyte, and AstraGin is a nutrient bioavailability enhancer that’s been shown to increase uptake of nutrients it’s consumed with.

The remaining ingredients are typical gummy findings: sugar, dextrose, maltodextrin, stearic acid, natural and artificial flavors, magnesium stearate, citric acid, malic acid, and beet root powder for color. Of course, since this isn’t pure creatine, there are calories and carbs: These contain 4 grams of carbs per serving, all of which are from added sugar.

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Other Creatine Gummies We Researched and Tried

Here, I recap our experience with other products we ordered for this guide. Unfortunately, the experience with these was not great—outright bad in some cases.

Icon Muscle Creatine Gummies: GGR performance editor and product tester Anthony O’Reilly says not to go for these because they contain more sugar per serving than creatine, and “the consistency is like that of dry Jell-O.” Also, the type of creatine is not specified.

: Product tester and GGR editor Frieda Johnson had an overall terrible experience with this company and product. She ordered the gummies in April 2023 and didn’t receive them until late June 2023. She even emailed the company several times and customer support was not at all supportive. When she finally got the gummies, she realized that one serving contains just 48 milligrams (what?!) of creatine per serving. For reference, the recommended daily dose of creatine is 3 to 5 grams—not milligrams. Frieda says she overlooked the small serving because, on the website, the product page also has a photo of the supplements facts for creatine capsules, which contain 1.4 grams per serving (still low).

Bear Balanced Creatine Gummies: Our product tester never received these gummies and has heard nothing from the company even after emailing support multiple times. “So basically, they took our money and ran,” Frieda says.

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How We Picked and Tested the Best Creatine Gummies

This guide to the best creatine gummies started out just like the rest of our guides to dietary supplements: with lots and lots of research. We spent hours sifting through webpages to find high-quality creatine gummy supplements. We then ordered the products and tested them ourselves, judging each one against our criteria for creatine.

We considered the following factors when creating this guide (and this is what you should look for, too).

• Type of creatine: Is the form of creatine creatine monohydrate, creatine HCl, another type of creatine or a blend? Monohydrate is the most studied form of creatine and the one used to develop recommended doses, so that’s what we primarily recommend.
• Other ingredients: Obviously, in a gummy, you’re not getting pure creatine monohydrate like you are with, for example, Optimum Nutrition 100% Creatine Monohydrate Powder. There will be sugars and fillers for taste and texture, and that’s OK. But are they quality ingredients?
• Dose: How many grams of creatine are in a serving? How many gummies does it take to reach a full serving? Does a serving meet the daily recommended dosage? Could you fulfill a creatine loading phase with this product? (The answer to that last question is probably not when you’re looking at gummies.)
• Taste and texture? Are they actually good? This is more important in a gummy candy than a powder or capsule, because you actually have to chew it. This could become more of a hassle than it’s worth if the product doesn’t taste good.
• Side effects: Did our tester experience cramping, bloating, or other problems after taking the product?
• Benefits: Compared to our experience with other creatine products, does this product seem to support muscle function and high-intensity exercise in the same way? Are there any notable differences, good or bad?
• Customer experience: Sometimes, the experience with a company can negate any benefit of a product. We look into return policies, satisfaction guarantees, shipping, and reviews of customer service to see how companies value their customers.
• Customer reviews: What are actual buyers saying? Do reviews indicate that the purchase price is worth it?
• Price: One big thing to know is that creatine gummies cost substantially more than creatine powder and capsules. The best creatine gummies cost $2 per serving or more, whereas a high-quality creatine powder can cost less than $0.50 per serving.

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Benefits of Creatine Gummies

All of the usual fitness benefits of creatine apply to creatine gummies:

• Increased muscle strength¹
• Increased muscle mass²
• Improved fitness performance³
• Improved muscular endurance³
• Increased power⁴
• Expedited workout recovery⁵

There are also several general wellness and health benefits to creatine, including that the amino acid compound may be neuroprotective⁶, it can fight fatigue⁷, may reduce dehydration⁸ by retaining water in muscle cells, may support brain health⁹, and can support stable blood sugar¹⁰.

The added benefit is that creatine gummies taste good, so it might be easier for you to get them down than an unflavored creatine powder or capsules.

Dosing and Interactions

Creatine is recognized as safe at the recommended dose of 3 to 5 grams per day for long-term use; a short-term loading protocol of consuming 20 to 25 grams of creatine per day for five to seven days is also recognized as safe.

In both short- and long-term studies, no harmful effects of creatine have been reported.

That said, anyone who is managing a chronic health condition, is nursing or pregnant, or is taking prescription medications should talk to their healthcare provider(s) before taking creatine or any dietary supplement.

Third-Party Testing

We strive to recommend supplements that are independently tested through labs and vetted through screening agencies like the National Sanitation Foundation and Banned Substances Control Group. Unfortunately, creatine gummies as a category don’t seem to be third-party tested.

That doesn’t mean you should avoid them outright, unless you’re an athlete who is subject to drug testing. When shopping, if there is no third-party verification, look around for other indicators of transparency, such as information on ingredient sourcing and complete supplements facts or nutrition facts labels.

FAQs About Creatine Gummies

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any diseases.

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