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Gym Products Scored on Published Arithmetic

Every product scored the same way — cost per gram, clinical dose auditing, sourced buyer consensus. Weighted, capped, and never moved by an affiliate link.

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Every score we publish 324 scored
0510
Median 6.9 Highest NutraBio Base Pre Workout 10.0
43brands tracked
450panels read from labels
27cited dose thresholds
410verified products

Last audit update: October 5, 2026 · Same published formula for every category

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71 ranked Protein Powders 1Naked Nutrition Pea Protein Powder9.6 2BulkSupplements Soy Protein Isolate Powder9.5 3BulkSupplements Casein Protein Powder9.3 Full ranking → 57 ranked Protein Bars 1David Protein Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough7.8 2David Protein Fudge Brownie7.8 3David Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk7.7 Full ranking → 47 ranked Protein Snacks 1Quest Nutrition Quest Salted Caramel Protein Milkshake8.8 2Quest Nutrition Chocolate 45g Protein Milkshake8.8 3Quest Nutrition Vanilla 45g Protein Milkshake8.8 Full ranking → 43 ranked Pre-Workouts 1NutraBio Base Pre Workout10.0 2Rule 1 Proteins Prelift9.5 3Jocko Fuel Pre Workout9.4 Full ranking → 32 ranked Energy Drinks 1PEScience Versa Energy Drink9.3 2Cellucor C4 Original Carbonated9.1 3Cellucor C4 Performance Energy Mango Fuego9.1 Full ranking → 33 ranked Creatine 1Horbaach Creatine Monohydrate 2.2lb Powder10.0 2BulkSupplements Creatine Monohydrate9.8 3Naked Nutrition Creatine Monohydrate Powder 500g9.7 Full ranking → 33 ranked Skin Support 1BulkSupplements Hydrolyzed Bovine Collagen Powder9.9 2BulkSupplements Hydrolyzed Collagen Porcine Powder9.7 3BulkSupplements Hydrolyzed Fish Collagen Powder9.7 Full ranking → 36 ranked Body Composition Support 1Nutricost Nutricost Natural Caffeine Capsules 200mg 250 Capsules9.8 2NutraBio Caffeine 200mg9.7 3Nutricost Nutricost Caffeine L-Theanine8.3 Full ranking → 26 ranked Electrolytes 11st Phorm Hydration Sport9.3 2Redcon1 Canteen8.5 3Ascent Protein Citrus Clean Hydration Energy8.1 Full ranking → 28 ranked BCAA & EAA 1BulkSupplements BCAA 2:1:1 Branched Chain Amino Acids Powder9.9 2Nutricost Nutricost BCAA Powder9.8 3Rule 1 Proteins R1 BCAAs9.1 Full ranking →

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NUTRABIO№ 01 Base Pre Workout Pre-workout 10.0Composite / 10
100% of weighting Full record → HORBAACH№ 02 Creatine Monohydrate 2.2lb Powder creatine 10.0Composite / 10
85% of weighting Full record → BULKSUPPLEMENTS№ 03 BCAA 2:1:1 Branched Chain Amino Acids Powder amino-acids 9.9Composite / 10
100% of weighting Full record →

The two numbers

Both are computed from a product's own label and its current price. Neither is a matter of taste, and both can be recalculated by anyone who wants to check.

  1. 01

    Cost per gram of protein

    Price divided by the protein in the package. A tub that looks cheap on the shelf is often expensive per gram, and the ranking that matters is rarely the one on the price tag.

  2. 02

    Clinical dose auditing

    Every active measured against the dose used in published research — 27 thresholds, each with its citation and its evidence grade printed beside it. A “6 g performance blend” is underdosed on citrulline alone, and the blend is what hides it.

  3. 03

    If the readers disagree, it doesn’t publish

    Most panels are read from the label image by two independent readers. If their readings disagree on a single value, the product is held back — never published with a number we are unsure of. Where a brand publishes its panel as machine-readable data, that is parsed instead, and the product page says so.

Illustration: a supplement tub, a scoop of powder on a weighing scale, a magnifying glass and a ruler
Fig. 1 — The audit, in practice: the label, the scale, and the arithmetic between them.

Field guides

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Field guide How to read a supplement facts panel Serving size games, %DV, and what the label legally must disclose. Field guide Clinical doses: what the research used The real thresholds behind our audits, with their citations. Field guide Proprietary blends: what they hide Why a 750 mg blend cannot contain a clinical dose of its headline ingredient. Field guide Cost per gram: the only price that matters The arithmetic the shelf tag hides, worked through with a real product. Field guide Amino spiking, and how to spot it Nitrogen testing, filler aminos, and what certification does not prove.

Why proprietary blends get penalised

A blend lists its ingredients but not their individual doses. That is legal, common, and makes the formula unauditable: a label can print citrulline, beta-alanine and caffeine inside a 750 mg blend when a clinical dose of citrulline alone is 6,000 mg.

Since a blend hides whether the dose is real, an ingredient inside one is scored as undosed rather than assumed adequate, and the product carries an explicit penalty. If a brand discloses its doses, that shows up in its score.

What is published, and what is not

The rated products are live. Most had their supplement facts panel read from the label image by two independent readers, and only the products whose two readings agreed on every value were published. Where the readings disagreed — even on a single ingredient — the product is held back rather than published with a number we are unsure of. The rest were parsed from a brand’s own machine-readable nutrition data; every product page names the extraction path it came from.

Where a brand publishes its panel as machine-readable text, a single structured read suffices and the record says so. Dozens more image-only panels are transcribed and waiting on a second or third independent reading before they can appear.

Aggregated buyer sentiment is live where it can be sourced: the rating a brand publishes on its own product page, counted and linked at every use, and scored only when at least 25 reviews stand behind it. Where no machine-readable rating exists, the component is omitted and the page says so — never a number invented to fill a column.

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Read how the ratings are calculated for the full method, including the dose thresholds and their sources.

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