Best Creatine Without Sugar
Creatine supplements from the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database whose labels list no added sugar, dextrose, or maltodextrin, ranked by how completely the label discloses what is in the product.
Why People Avoid Sugar
Some creatine products add dextrose or maltodextrin on the theory that an insulin spike drives more creatine into muscle. Early studies did show greater uptake when creatine was taken with about 100 g of simple carbohydrate, but that is far more than any scoop supplies, and daily monohydrate saturates muscle stores within a few weeks without it.
For anyone managing blood glucose or calories, the added sugar is a cost without a benefit. Taking creatine with a normal meal gets the modest insulin effect anyway.
Results
297 of 339 on-market creatine labels with an other-ingredients list list no sugar, dextrose, maltodextrin, syrup, or other added sugar.
Ranked by label detail (stated amounts, named forms, a complete other-ingredients list), then by fewest other ingredients. The ranking reflects what the label discloses, not product testing, purity, or efficacy.
| Product Name | Ingredients | Form |
|---|---|---|
| Creatine Drive Unflavored Nutrex Research · 5 Gram(s) | Creatine 5 g1 other ingredient | monohydrate |
| Creatine Unflavored Muscle Feast · 5.4 Gram(s) | Creatine 5.4 g1 other ingredient | monohydrate |
| Muscle Creatine Powder 7000 mg Body Attack Sports Nutrition · 4 Gram(s) | Creatine 8 g1 other ingredient | monohydrate |
| Creatine Monohydrate Complex Unflavored MN Morphogen Nutrition · 5.05 Gram(s) | Creatine 5 g, with proprietary blend1 other ingredient | monohydrate |
| Creatine & Glutamine With Beta-Alanine Unflavored BodyTech · 10.2 Gram(s) | Creatine 5 g, with glutamine, beta-alanine1 other ingredient | monohydrate |
| Creatine-X Unflavored Apollon Nutrition · 5.25 Gram(s) | Creatine 5 g, with proprietary blend1 other ingredient | monohydrate |
| Genius Creatine Unflavored The Genius Brand · 6.8 Gram(s) | Creatine 5 g, with beta-alanine, proprietary blend1 other ingredient | monohydrate |
| All Natural Creatine Peach Mango Muscle Feast · 6.7 Gram(s) | Creatine 5.8 g5 other ingredients | monohydrate |
| Creatine Tangerine Flavor Muscle Feast · 7.3 Gram(s) | Creatine 5.4 g6 other ingredients | monohydrate |
| Creatine Green Apple Flavor Muscle Feast · 7.3 Gram(s) | Creatine 5.4 g7 other ingredients | monohydrate |
Product names link to the original label record in the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database. Labels go stale when products are reformulated; check the current package.
Search All Creatine Supplements
Open Supplement Search, choose the Creatine tab, and turn on the "Added sugar" chip under Exclude products containing. This page also requires a listed other-ingredients panel, since a label without one cannot show what it leaves out, so its count runs lower than the search page's.
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Data source: NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database, public domain (CC0 1.0). Index built August 9, 2026.