Vitamins and supplements: the everyday shelf

Food and pharmacy-shelf products: electrolyte sachets and oral rehydration salts, whey, casein and plant protein powders, fibre, a vitamin and mineral aisle from D3 with K2 to zinc, and single-ingredient powders such as creatine and collagen. This is one of the two shelves on the site that are not accessories, and the one where we are most careful about what we say: each product is described as what it is and what people commonly use it for, with no claim about what it does.

The shelf sorts into a few honest groups. Hydration: electrolyte sachets and tablets, oral rehydration salts in the World Health Organization ratio, and a time-marked bottle. Protein: whey isolate, clear whey, casein, plant protein, bone broth protein, ready-to-drink cartons and bars, with a shaker, a blender and a kitchen scale beside them. Digestion: psyllium and prebiotic fibre powders, digestive enzymes, a probiotic, and ginger in both chew and capsule form. Then the ordinary vitamin and mineral aisle — D3 with K2, a B complex, B12, B6, C, zinc, iron, calcium with D3, potassium, a multivitamin — and a handful of the single-ingredient powders people ask for by name: creatine, collagen, glycine, taurine, carnitine, EAAs, HMB.

Two things are worth knowing before you buy any of it. First, the form on the label is usually the difference between two listings of the same thing: magnesium glycinate rather than oxide, ubiquinol rather than ubiquinone, iron bisglycinate rather than sulphate, B6 as P-5-P. Second, servings per tub, not the tub's price, is what makes one cheaper than another. If you take any medicine, ask a pharmacist before adding a supplement — several of the items here interact with common prescriptions, and a pharmacist will tell you in thirty seconds.

What differs between listings

  • Form is how it arrives: something to swallow, something to stir into a drink, something to eat, or the kit that goes with them rather than a supplement itself.
  • The form of the active ingredient, which is what most listings of the same product actually differ by.
  • Servings per container, and whether an unflavoured version exists.

Recorded specifications compared

Values come from each product's own record; a dash means the record has none for that column.

Recorded specifications compared
ProductTypeForm
Electrolyte Drink Mix (sachets)SupplementSachets
Electrolyte Tablets (Nuun / HIGH5 / Hydralyte)SupplementTablets
Magnesium GlycinateSupplementCapsules
Vitamin D3 + K2SupplementCapsules
Omega-3 Fish OilSupplementCapsules
Whey Protein Isolate (unflavoured)ProteinPowder
Creatine MonohydrateSupplementPowder
Collagen Peptides PowderSupplementPowder
Psyllium Husk PowderSupplementPowder
Ginger ChewsSupplementChews or gummies
Daily MultivitaminSupplementTablets
BlenderBottle ShakerKitKit
Digital Kitchen ScaleKitKit
Time-Marked Water Bottle (1 L / 32 oz)KitKit
Protein Bars (20 g)ProteinBars
Ready-to-Drink Protein ShakeProteinReady to drink
Vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin)SupplementTablets
Daily Probiotic (Culturelle / Bio-Kult)SupplementCapsules
Glass Meal-Prep ContainersKitKit
Vitamin B ComplexSupplementCapsules
Vitamin C 1,000 mgSupplementTablets
Zinc PicolinateSupplementCapsules
Gentle Iron (bisglycinate)SupplementCapsules
Calcium Citrate + D3SupplementTablets
Potassium Citrate (99 mg)SupplementCapsules
Prebiotic Fibre Powder (unflavoured)SupplementPowder
Digestive EnzymesSupplementCapsules
Ginger Root CapsulesSupplementCapsules
Vitamin B6 (P-5-P)SupplementCapsules
Glucosamine, Chondroitin & MSMSupplementTablets
Turmeric / Curcumin with Black PepperSupplementCapsules
Glycine PowderSupplementPowder
Taurine PowderSupplementPowder
L-CarnitineSupplementCapsules
Essential Amino Acids (EAA) PowderSupplementPowder
HMB CapsulesSupplementCapsules
Plant Protein PowderProteinPowder
Clear Whey IsolateProteinPowder
Micellar Casein ProteinProteinPowder
Greens PowderSupplementPowder
Complete Meal Shake (Huel-style)FoodPowder
Bone Broth Protein PowderProteinPowder
Hair, Skin & Nails (Biotin)SupplementTablets
CoQ10 (Ubiquinol)SupplementCapsules
Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS)SupplementSachets
Berberine HCl 500 mgSupplementCapsules
Portable Blender (Ninja Blast)KitKit

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