Creatine is great for your muscles, but did you know it also can improve cognition, heart health, mood, and male fertility?

It’s true, and this has helped creatine gummies storm the supplement market with a simple promise: 

All the benefits of creatine powder in a tasty, chewy candy-like treat.

But in 2024 and 2025, that promise came under fire.

Independent labs began testing some of Amazon’s top-rated creatine gummies and found many contained far less creatine than claimed on the label. 

They’re calling it “Gummygate,” and in this article, you’ll learn how this scandal unfolded, how it happened, and how to find creatine gummies that actually work.

Key Takeaways

  • Creatine monohydrate gummies became popular because they offer the same benefits as creatine powder in a tasty, chewable candy-like treat.
  • When companies like NOW Foods and SuppCo tested top-rated creatine gummies in third-party labs, they found many contained far less creatine than claimed (or none at all).
  • This is likely due to manufacturers underdosing their products and because the creatine in these gummies degraded into creatinine over time.
  • Creatine gummies work just as well as powder if they contain 3–5 grams of creatine monohydrate per serving.
  • For creatine gummies certified by Labdoor™ and Europhins to contain at least 5 grams of active, stable creatine monohydrate per serving, try Legion Creatine Gummies.

The Promise of Creatine Monohydrate Gummies

Creatine is the most widely studied and effective supplement in sports nutrition. It’s safe, inexpensive, and shown to improve strength, power, muscle growth, recovery, and possibly even cognitive function.

It’s not perfect, though.

Being a bland, gritty powder, it can be inconvenient and unpleasant to store, mix, and consume. Creatine gummies promised to solve that problem by providing the same 3–5-gram dose in a tasty, chewy candy.

It’s an easy sell—and sell they did. 

But just as their popularity peaked, third-party labs began testing some of the top-rated creatine gummies and found many contained only a fraction of the creatine listed on the label.

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Are Creatine Gummies Effective? How the Creatine Gummy Scandal Unfolded

In 2024, supplement manufacturer NOW Foods began testing creatine monohydrate gummies after noticing a mismatch between what some brands claimed on their labels and what seemed chemically possible for a gummy. 

They used high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)—a precise method for measuring what compounds are in a mixture—to see whether each product actually contained the amount of creatine claimed on the label.

Five out of the 12 products they tested failed. Two of the failures contained only a fraction of the creatine claimed on the label, and three contained none at all. 

In 2025, health tech startup SuppCo picked up the thread. They sent six of Amazon’s best-selling creatine gummies to an independent lab and found that only two contained the amount of creatine listed on the label. The rest contained just a tiny percentage of the stated dose—or none at all.

One of the worst offenders was Happyummmm. Its label claimed 5 grams of creatine per two-gummy serving, but SuppCo’s test found just 0.005 grams. That’s less than 0.1% of the stated dose.

In other words, to get an effective dose, you’d have to chew through 2,000 Happyummmm gummies per day. If you wanted to use them to “load” creatine (take 20 grams daily for the first week), you’d need to chow down 8,000 gummies per day for seven days straight.

Worse still, Ecowise and Vidabotan gummies contained zero detectable creatine.

Around the same time, author and YouTuber James Smith launched his own investigation. He sent nine brands of gummies to leading bioanalytical lab Eurofins for testing.

The results?

Three passes, six fails. 

James Smith Creatine Testing Chart

A brand called Push fared especially poorly. Despite publishing lab certificates “proving” their gummies’ creatine content, neither of the flavors tested contained creatine.

Now, you might think it’s just one lab’s word against another’s—and hey, at least Push had certificates, right?

Not quite.

Smith made sure to test the exact same batch Push had certified, in the same lab, using the same method, and signed off by the same technician. What’s more, the bag he submitted to Eurofins arrived sealed—something the bag sent by Push was not.

All very suspicious.

And that left just one question: how do you end up with a creatine gummy that contains no creatine?

Why Are So Many Creatine Monohydrate Gummies Under-Dosed?

“Money. Life’s not more complicated than that—people are mostly motivated by money.”

True. 

In the sports nutrition racket, never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.

And in the case of creatine monohydrate, if companies can use less (or none) and still sell a gummy claiming on the label to provide “5 grams of creatine,” some will—especially since there’s no legal requirement for third-party testing and the FDA doesn’t approve supplements before they hit the market.

In other words, some companies may wittingly sell you candy instead of creatine because it’s lucrative and, in the current system, there’s little stopping them.

That said, it could also come down to oversight.

Many supplement companies don’t test their products themselves. Instead, they rely on suppliers to do the due diligence, which can backfire if a supplier makes mistakes or provides inaccurate lab results. (That appears to be what happened with Push, judging by the fallout.)

But there’s also a problem with the chemistry of creatine gummies.

Creatine Gummies Can “Go Bad”

Creatine is stable as a dry powder, but once you add water to make gummies, things get tricky. Water—along with heat and acidity—accelerates the breakdown of creatine into creatinine, a useless byproduct.

If the gummies are too wet, too acidic, or get too hot for too long, a lot of the creatine can degrade before the final product even leaves the factory. What remains usually breaks down soon after. Case in point: Several of the failed products from earlier also had elevated creatinine levels.

So, while creatine gummies don’t “go bad” in the sense that they spoil (like most candy—they stay edible for a very long time), the creatine in them does degrade over time, eventually to zero.

That’s why high quality creatine gummies tend to be a little drier than regular candy gummies. They’re made with less moisture to minimize creatine breakdown during manufacturing.

Even then, some creatine loss is inevitable. 

Good brands overcome this by adding extra creatine to begin with. For example, if the goal is 5 grams per serving, they start with 6 grams, so the finished gummies still contain the promised dose after losses during production.

They also manage stock more carefully, because even the creatine in well-made gummies degrades over time. Letting them sit in a warehouse for years can leave customers with under-dosed products, even if everything was done right at the start.

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How to Spot Creatine Gummies That Actually Work

So, how do you make sure you’re not getting scammed by “Gummygate?”

You demand proof.

Any reputable supplement brand knows that the creatine in creatine gummies eventually breaks down, and seeks to mitigate this in two ways: 

  1. Formulating their products in such a way to minimize this breakdown (as discussed above)
  2. Conducting third-party stability testing to confirm that their gummies still contain a clinically effective dose of creatine. 

If a company doesn’t do either of these things—don’t buy them.

And if they do, ask to see the results. 

For example, Legion has been paying for third-party stability testing on our creatine gummies since we launched them several years ago, which we claim contain at least 5 grams of creatine per serving. 

The result? 

Our very first batch of Lemon Drop Creatine Gummies, manufactured in November 2023, contained 5.86 grams of creatine per serving in January 2025—over two years later. Our Sour Blue Raspberry and Sour Watermelon Gummies contained 6.09 and 5.67 grams of creatine per serving over a year after manufacturing, respectively. Our Sour Green Apple Gummies contained 5.1 grams of creatine 6 months after manufacturing, but the reason for this is likely due to a slightly lower initial creatine content rather than accelerated breakdown (since the formula is more or less the same as the other gummies). 

You can check the results yourself here: 

 

 

 

 

The reason for this is simple: We took great care to formulate our gummies to prevent the breakdown of creatine for as long as possible, and included slightly more creatine than required to make up for any breakdown that did occur. 

So here’s a sensible rule to buy by: if a brand won’t show you current, third-party lab results proving the creatine dose per serving, don’t trust them.

Another tip: don’t judge creatine gummies by candy standards. Creatine gummies must be drier and firmer than candy to prevent the creatine from breaking down. If a creatine gummy is as juicy and soft as a gummy bear, there’s a high chance that much of the creatine has already broken down. 

So while creatine gummies should be chewy, fruity, and fun to eat, they can’t be as soft as gummy bears, gushers, and jelly fruit slices. If you find one that is, be suspicious of its creatine content.

The Best Creatine Gummies (You Can Actually Trust)

So many creatine gummies fail testing because too few brands care about quality control.

At Legion, we take it seriously.

Every batch of Legion Creatine Gummies is made with around 10-20% extra creatine to offset natural losses during manufacturing. We also keep them slightly drier to slow creatine breakdown and preserve their long-term potency, and we tightly manage our inventory according to a reasonable shelf life.

What’s more, our creatine gummies are third-party lab tested for purity and accuracy and independently certified by Labdoor™ to meet or exceed FDA safety guidelines. They’re also third-party tested by Eurofins and independently tested by our co-manufacturer to ensure the creatine loss over time is minimal.

And of course, like all of our products, our creatine gummies are naturally sweetened and flavored, and contain no artificial sweeteners, flavors, food dyes, fillers, or other unnecessary junk.

FAQ #1: Do creatine gummies work?

Yes, creatine gummies work just as well as any other creatine supplement, as long as they contain 3–5 grams of creatine monohydrate per serving.

FAQ #2: Are creatine gummies as good as powder?

Yes, if creatine gummies provide the same 3–5 grams you get from powder, they’re equally good.

FAQ #3: Can you trust creatine gummies reviews?

You can, if the company is reputable—meaning they use third-party testing, don’t hide lab results, and have a track record of transparency.