UK supplement buying guides, product identity and claim checks
Choose a supplement format or product quickly, then use UK label, claim and alert checks without turning the guide into medical or dosage advice.
Four clear ways in
Pick the question closest to the purchase. Each page makes the quick choice first and keeps the compliance detail in support.
Whey, casein, plant or no protein powder?
01Choose the food source, allergen fit and usable format first; a larger front-label number is not automatically the better buy.
Open route →Creatine powder, capsule, blend or skip?
02Compare ingredient simplicity, format and total labelled amount without turning the page into individual dosage advice.
Open route →Supplement Claim Decoder
03Paste the exact supplement wording to receive a bounded four-tier pattern result: observable label fact, claim with conditions, wording needing an official check, or wording that must not drive the purchase.
Open route →Supplement Label and Alert Checker
04Enter exact product, flavour, barcode or batch details to open the official food alert search, with a fail-safe that never treats a brand-only or no-result search as clearance.
Open route →What this section does differently
Regulation is useful when it exposes a product mismatch, a weak claim or a missing label fact. It should not make ordinary buying feel harder.
- Four usable routesEvery decision page shows who each option suits and the decisive trade-off.
- Product identity checksDistinguish the recorded family or variant, then match the exact current pack.
- Claims in four tiersLabel fact, conditional wording, evidence question, or wording that must not sell the product.
- Official alert routeA local text result never replaces the current official product and food alert services.
Browse every supplement page
Nothing is tucked behind a search box. Open the format, ingredient, product or family, or claim check you need.
Fast buying guides
6 pages- How to read a UK supplement label quickly
- UK nutrition and health claims: a buying check
- Compare supplement label amounts without turning them into dosage advice
- Supplement allergens and warnings: the fast UK checklist
- Buying supplements online in the UK: the fast checklist
- Great Britain and Northern Ireland supplement labels: what changes?
Format and routine decisions
8 pages- Whey, casein, plant or no protein powder?
- Creatine powder, capsule, blend or skip?
- Electrolyte powder, tablet, ready drink or food first?
- Bovine, marine, capsule or collagen-free route?
- Single supplement, multivitamin or no product?
- Subscription, single pack, bundle or official retailer?
- Vegan, vegetarian, allergen check or no dietary claim?
- Caffeinated supplement, caffeine-free, ordinary drink or skip?
Substance and label dossiers
10 pages- Protein powder labels: UK buying dossier
- Creatine monohydrate labels: UK buying dossier
- Collagen source and format labels: UK buying dossier
- Electrolyte supplement labels: UK buying dossier
- Vitamin D supplement labels: UK buying dossier
- Vitamin B12 supplement labels: UK buying dossier
- Magnesium forms and labels: UK buying dossier
- Omega-3 source and labels: UK buying dossier
- Iron supplement labels and warnings: UK buying dossier
- Botanicals, adaptogens and the medicine boundary: UK buying dossier
Product identity and family recognition guides
14 pages- Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard 100% Whey: product family recognition guide
- Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard 100% Casein: product family recognition guide
- Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy: product family recognition guide
- Myprotein Impact Whey Protein: product family recognition guide
- Bulk Pure Whey Protein: product family recognition guide
- Form Performance Protein: product family recognition guide
- Myprotein Creatine Monohydrate Powder: product family recognition guide
- Applied Nutrition Creatine Monohydrate: product family recognition guide
- Bulk Creatine Monohydrate: product family recognition guide
- Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder: product family recognition guide
- Applied Nutrition Critical Whey Protein: product family recognition guide
- Myprotein Vegan Protein Blend: product family recognition guide
- Ancient + Brave True Collagen: UK Label Passport
- Ancient + Brave Wild Collagen: product family recognition guide