Flavoured Creatine+ Blackcurrant | 550 g | German Elite Nutrition

Flavoured Creatine+ Blackcurrant by German Elite Nutrition

You drink powder that tastes like nothing out of routine. You drink powder you enjoy without thinking twice. This creatine monohydrate with blackcurrant is for athletes who want to take their daily dose. Even during the weeks without competition. A 550 g tub contains 110 servings, so you'll have enough for a few months.

What blackcurrant tastes like in your shaker

Blackcurrant is dark forest fruit with a robust tartness. No sweet candy flavor. More like berries you pick yourself from the branch. It contains zero grams of sugar, so that tartness comes through more sharply than in syrup. And that is exactly why this flavor doesn't get boring quickly. Sweet powders become bland after two weeks. A deep berry flavor with a bit of tartness stays full-bodied, even after the fiftieth time. The citric acid in the formula makes it a little bit fresher. In cold water, the flavor stays clean and sharp. In fruit juice, it becomes rounder and sweeter, which often tastes better after a long endurance workout. By the way, blackcurrant creatine is also great when you train in the cold and don't feel like something sweet. If you want to go in a different direction, Flavoured Creatine+ comes in a total of eight flavors.

What creatine does around your training

Creatine is naturally present in your muscle cells, mostly as creatine phosphate. Creatine increases physical performance during consecutive short bursts of very intense physical exertion. The beneficial effect is obtained with a daily intake of 3 g of creatine; the claim is aimed at adults who exercise very intensively. And 5 g of this powder provides exactly 3000 mg of pure creatine. Think of six heavy sets of squats or a series of sprints on the track.

Building your supply in a few weeks

Creatine is not a pre-workout. You won't notice anything from a single shake, and that's how it should be. What happens is that your muscles store it. That storage space fills up step by step. With 5 g of creatine monohydrate per day, you reach a saturated level after three to four weeks. You don't need a loading phase of 20 g per day for that. It just takes a little longer. That is why you also take your dose on rest days. Not because you perform that day, but because the level in your muscles stays maintained. If you skip it for a few weeks, it drops back to where you started and you have to build it up again. So think of it more as a savings account than a recharge. That makes the flavor more important than it seems at first glance. Something you drink 110 days in a row really has to taste good.

Adding flavor does not change the amount of creatine

Many athletes think that flavored creatine is a diluted version of the neutral stuff. That is not the case here. Per 5 g serving, two scoops in at least 250 ml of water or fruit juice, you get 3410 mg of creatine monohydrate. That includes 500 mg of L-taurine. The rest of the list is short: citric acid as an acid regulator, flavoring, and the sweetener sucralose. No aspartame, no sugar, no fat, 0 kcal. The powder is micronized, which means the granules are ground finer than standard creatine powder. In practice, you notice this by less grit at the bottom of your cup. It also settles less quickly if you keep talking for a moment. The formula is also vegan. In short: flavored creatine provides the same monohydrate form as the neutral powders you may have started with.

Flavoured Creatine+ Blackcurrant therefore does two things at once. It provides your daily 3 g from micronized creatine monohydrate. And it gives you a dark berry flavor that keeps appealing for 110 servings. The latter is often the difference between a tub that gets emptied and a tub that stays at the back of your kitchen cabinet.