Is your creatine actually creatine?
You’re staring at a creatine COA, and you know the at-home ‘tests’ — the water glass, the sniff — are folklore.
The at-home tests are folklore.
Drop it in water. Smell it. Taste it. The internet’s creatine purity tests read like folk remedies — because they are.
The real method is HPLC: separate the molecules, measure each one. No sniffing required.
Creatine powder dissolves clean — exactly the kind of sample our panel handles best. We quantify the free amino acids in your powder: the measured profile behind the label claim, with the chromatogram to prove it. For the full checklist, see our guide to verifying what’s on the label.
Published prices: $150/sample · $125 at 10+ · $99 on standing contract.
The real method, not the kitchen test.
HPLC quantitation of the free amino acids in your creatine powder. If the tub says pure creatine monohydrate, the profile should say so too — measured, not sniffed.
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