Independent supplement ratings
Most supplement reviews are opinions with an affiliate link attached. This one starts from arithmetic: what a gram of protein actually costs, and whether a formula is dosed at the levels the research used.
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.
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.
Every active measured against the dose used in published research — 20 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.
Every panel is 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.
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.
The first rated products are live. Every one had its 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.
That is why the catalogue is small and growing slowly. Dozens more panels are transcribed and waiting on a second reading before they can appear.
Aggregated buyer sentiment on taste and mixability is planned but not built. When it arrives it will carry counts and links to real sources. It will not be a number invented to fill a column.
On affiliate links. This site will earn commission on some links, and pages carrying one will say so. No brand pays for a rating, and no rating changes because a brand enrolled. Any product can be rated whether or not there is money in it.
Read how the ratings are calculated for the full method, including the dose thresholds and their sources.
Every number on this site traces to a label we read twice.
