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Best Beta-Alanine Supplements For Purity, Pre-Workout, and More

If you’re a big fan of pre-workout supplements, you’ve likely felt that tingly feeling before — this sensation comes from beta-alanine. One of the most common pre-workout ingredients, beta-alanine is ... Continue Reading

Best Carb Supplements For Digestion, Taste, And More

Carbohydrates are a main source of energy for the body, helping to fuel your organs and central nervous system. They’re also one of the three macronutrients that your body needs on a daily basis — the ... Continue Reading

Best Citrulline Supplements for Pre-Workout, Vegans, and More

Citrulline is a popular pre-workout supplement that may increase blood flow, with some studies suggesting that it might help with power output and endurance during workouts. This non-essential amino acid ... Continue Reading

Best Magnesium Supplements

The 11 Best Magnesium Supplements, Personally Tested and Picked by Experts

While some nutritional compounds, like the best pre-workout supplements, have a general use, others are more versatile in their functions. “Magnesium, for example, is a vital player in everyday ... Continue Reading

Best Protein Puffs

Best Protein Puffs for Flavor, Sweetness, and More

Protein puffs are a relatively new and increasingly popular type of high-protein snack. Crafted to resemble the cheesy junk food many of us know and love, these snacks are usually pretty high in protein ... Continue Reading

Best Water Bottles

The Best Water Bottles For Sports, Flip Tops, and More

Shopping for a water bottle can be packed with decisions. Do you want a squeeze bottle or a flip-top? One is easier for quick sips on short breaks during a basketball or soccer game, but the other might be ... Continue Reading

Best Shaker with Storage

Best Shaker Bottle with Storage for Powder

Shaker bottles with extra storage make following a fitness program a little less complicated. Your supplements or protein powder can be kept with your bottle so mixing and consuming it is a little less ... Continue Reading

Best Shakers with Straw

Best Shaker Bottle With Straw

If you’re constantly on the go, a great shaker can make every day just a little easier. Plus, you’re going to need a bottle that lets you mix everything from fruit water to a protein shake without any sort ... Continue Reading

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The 11 Best Low-Carb Protein Powders of 2025, According to a RDN

Many of the best protein powders we’ve tested are low in carbs, calories, and added sugars. A low-carb protein powder can be useful for those looking for a concentrated dose of protein that can support ... Continue Reading

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5 Best Protein Chips of 2025, Expert-Approved Protein-Packed Snacks

Chip conglomerates, beware — no longer must we sacrifice our nutrition to enjoy your irresistible crunch. As some of the best protein snacks on the market, protein chips are formulated to help you reach ... Continue Reading

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The 6 Best ZMA Supplements of 2025

ZMA stands for zinc magnesium aspartate, and it’s a supplement often marketed towards folks in the fitness realm. Typically, ZMA is made up of a combination of magnesium, zinc, and vitamin B6 ... Continue Reading

Best Sport Water Bottles

Best Sports Water Bottles

Whether it’s running, cycling, lifting weights, or doing yoga, staying hydrated during exercise is essential. Rather than spending a few bucks on a bottle of water every trip to the gym, it may be worth ... Continue Reading

Best Soy Proteins

5 Best Soy Protein Powders

The humble soybean provides an extremely high quality protein and while anybody can pick up tofu or tempeh from the supermarket, many find it cheaper and more convenient to seek out soy protein powder. But ... Continue Reading

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6 Best Optimum Nutrition Flavors 2025: Personally Taste Tested

A solid whey protein is a great way to increase your protein intake. Optimum Nutrition's Gold Standard Whey is among the most popular protein powders on the market. And for good reason: It’s inexpensive, ... Continue Reading

Best Powdered Peanut Butter

Best Powdered Peanut Butter of 2025 for Texture, Shakes, and More

For folks looking to reap the protein-rich benefits of peanut butter while cutting out some of the calories and fats associated with it, powdered peanut butter may be an alternative worth exploring. Made ... Continue Reading

Best Protein Shakes for Weight Loss

8 Best Protein Shakes for Weight Loss in 2025, Tested and Dietitian Approved

Drinking protein shakes can help support your weight loss goals by increasing your protein intake. (1) But finding the best protein shakes for weight loss can feel overwhelming with new brands popping up ... Continue Reading

Best Energy Gels

Best Energy Gels

Energy gels or endurance gels, these pre-packaged and gooey snacks can give a quick fix when energy is lacking and a long race or ride is ahead. When looking for the best energy gels on the market, it’s ... Continue Reading

Best Healthy Snacks

Best Healthy Snacks

Snacking is different for everyone. Some people may prefer a salty and crunchy snack, whereas others may crave sweet and chewy morsels. Luckily, there are endless snack options on the web that make ... Continue Reading

Dymatize vs BSN

BSN Syntha-6 Vs. Dymatize Iso-100: Do Digestive Enzymes Matter?

These are two super popular whey proteins that are both very different, both in the kinds of protein they contain and the fact that one of them contains way, way more ingredients than the other. Which ... Continue Reading

Quest Vs Isopure Protein Powder Comparison

Quest Vs Isopure – Which Low Carb Protein Powder Is Best?

Today we’re hosting a battle of the low carb protein powders: Isopure and Quest. They’re both very popular names in the supplement industry but for different reasons. Isopure has a well-deserved ... Continue Reading

dymatize vs isopure

Isopure Vs. Dymatize – Which Low-Carb Whey Is Best?

These are two protein powders that deserve recognition for the indelible impact they’ve made on the industry. The first is Isopure, which may well be the most popular whey isolate on Earth. (We don’t ... Continue Reading

Athletic Greens Vs Organifi

Athletic Greens Vs. Organifi – Which Superfood Powder Wins Out?

If there's ever been an ultimate face-off between titans of the green superfood powder industry, this is it. These two companies are enormously influential and many consider them the default option when ... Continue Reading

Garden of Life Perfect Food Vs. MacroLife Macro Greens — Which Has More Nutrition?

There's a lot to like about these two green superfood drinks: they're both inexpensive and they both have a nice, descriptive nutrition label — something that can be hard to find in this industry. Macro ... Continue Reading

Ultimate Nutrition Prostar 100 Whey Protein vs ON Gold Standard — A Close Call

Optimum Nutrition is a brand that's so well-known it almost needs no introduction. They produce the most popular protein powder on the market, Gold Standard Whey, which can be found in practically every ... Continue Reading

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