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Exact product checked · barcode not publishedCytona · observed 2026-07-22🇨🇳 USPTO wordmark owner · Wenjie Chen · China
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Creatine Gummies Monohydrate Complex

Marketing check: 1 marketing claim needs attention, 2 remain partly or independently unverified.

Rebuilt from public sources on July 23, 2026 · evidence availability is not a safety or effectiveness verdict.

120gummies · 30 servings
4.5 / 5rating at observation
569visible ratings
Marketing claims, checked

Does the marketing hold up?

Couldn’t verify means public proof was not found; it is not a mark against the product. Ingredient research is not treated as a trial of this exact product.

Contradicted by the retained record1

The front says 9,000 mg under creatine; the panel assigns 5,000 mg to it.

The listing uses 9 g for creatine. The panel lists creatine at 5 g; the other 4,000 mg is the rest of the declared blend. Panel addition: Creatine Monohydrate 5000 mg + BCAA 2:1:1 2000 mg + Beta-Alanine 1000 mg + L-Taurine 500 mg + L-Carnitine 500 mg = 9,000 mg. This documents the framing; it does not establish what is inside the product.

Evidence →

Partly confirmed1

Advertised health or performance benefit

Published research exists for ingredients in this formula — see Related research below. Whether this product’s doses match those studies could not be confirmed.

Evidence →

?Couldn’t verify independently1

GMP or manufacturing-quality language

Facility-level claims can be accurate and still say nothing about this product’s contents. No registration document was located.

Evidence →
Quick read · 7 useful findings

What is worth knowing.

Headlines first. Open evidence only when you want the source trail.

Needs explanationIs the label honest?

Declared contents barely fit the format’s physics

The declared contents leave too little room for the serving itself, or exceed its stated mass. At least one label number needs an explanation.

Evidence and sources

Declared contents total at least 12 g per 4-gummy serving: 9 g of major actives plus 3 g carbohydrate. A typical pectin gummy is assumed here to weigh 2.5–3.5 g, making a 4-gummy serving roughly 10–14 g. The panel does not state serving weight, so this remains a warning: the decl…

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Needs explanationIs the label honest?

Panel carries documented template or translation artifacts

Template, translation, or duplicate-row artifacts are reasons to trust the printed numbers less until the brand supplies a clean, product-specific panel.

Evidence and sources

The panel carries these quoted observations: “Creatine Monohydrate appears twice: a unitless "12" row and a 5,000 mg row”; “The "% Daily | Value" header is split into two columns”; “The panel says "2.000 calorie diet"”; “The panel says "Sodium Citral"”; “The panel says "Serving P…

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Needs explanationWill you get what you pay for?

Creatine in a gummy can degrade in moist, acidic conditions.

Moist, acidic formats can reduce the active ingredient over time, so the delivered amount may be lower than the label says.

Evidence and sources

Creatine is stable as dry powder, while published stability research shows faster degradation as moisture and temperature rise. A gummy's delivered amount therefore depends on formulation and shelf-life testing; this record does not test this product.

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Needs explanationCan you trust the review pattern?

A lot of reviews for how new this brand is

The sales implied by the review count are worth weighing against how new or little-known the brand is. This is a plausibility question, not a fake-review verdict.

Evidence and sources

569 ratings, at a typical 1–2% review rate, implies roughly 28,450–56,900 units sold — for a brand about 14 months old. Worth weighing whether that pace is plausible for a new, unknown label. The count is a documented fact; the conclusion is yours.

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Checks outCan you trust the review pattern?

Reviews accumulated gradually

Gradual growth is more ordinary; a sudden burst deserves a closer look. Neither pattern proves whether individual reviews are genuine.

Evidence and sources

Written reviews grew from 105 to 183 across 2026-01-25 – 2026-07-15 with no single manufactured spike (largest 30-day gain ~31).

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Checks outIs the label honest?

Every declared ingredient has an amount · 9 quantified rows.

You can compare each declared dose with research instead of guessing what is hidden inside a blend.

Evidence and sources

The panel gives a per-ingredient amount rather than hiding quantities inside a proprietary blend, so each one can be compared to published research.

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Needs explanationIs the label honest?

Vitamin B12 is listed at 1,000% Daily Value

The number is worth noticing, but a large Daily Value is not by itself proof of harm or benefit.

Evidence and sources

The panel declares 25 mcg vitamin B12 (1000% Daily Value). NIH does not set a B12 UL for adults, but high-dose B12 can interfere with some laboratory tests. This is a documented dose context, not a safety verdict.

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Who owns the brand wordmark?
🇨🇳
Wenjie ChenIndividual · exact supplement-class mark for CYTONA
Registration8187465
Registered2026-03-24
AssignmentsNo transfers recorded
Show the exact filed address in the full report
No. 63-301, Dongshan Road, Dongshan Residential Committee, Yangming Town, Heping County, Guangdong, 517200, CHINA

USPTO identifies the public owner or applicant behind this brand wordmark. This does not by itself identify the product manufacturer or prove where the product was made. Open USPTO source ↗

Research behind the findings

Dose and research context

Ingredient context used alongside the captured panel. These sources do not test this product or establish safety or effectiveness.

Dose vs research

5 g declared

The panel declares 5 g per serving, in the 3–5 g/day context cited in the research.

Declared dose sits within the cited study context
Buying options

Where you can check or buy it

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No price confirmed

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Confirmed evidence

What checked out04

These checks found support in the public record. They confirm specific facts, not the product as a whole.

Creatine dose matches the studied range

The panel declares 5 g creatine per serving, at the top of the commonly studied 3–5 g/day range. This compares declared label numbers with research; it does not verify contents or recommend an amount.

Confirmed

Every ingredient amount is disclosed

The panel gives a per-ingredient amount rather than hiding quantities inside a proprietary blend, so each one can be compared to published research.

Confirmed

Exact trademark owner identified

USPTO lists Wenjie Chen (INDIVIDUAL) in China for the exact brand wordmark. This identifies the USPTO mark owner or applicant; it does not by itself prove who manufactures or sells this product.

Confirmed

Reviews accumulated gradually

Written reviews grew from 105 to 183 across 2026-01-25 – 2026-07-15 with no single manufactured spike (largest 30-day gain ~31).

Confirmed

Documented concerns

What needs caution06

These are documented contradictions or claims that need more evidence. They are separate from missing data.

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Headline number is a blend total, not one named ingredient

The listing uses 9 g for creatine. The panel lists creatine at 5 g; the other 4,000 mg is the rest of the declared blend. Panel addition: Creatine Monohydrate 5000 mg + BCAA 2:1:1 2000 mg + Beta-Alanine 1000 mg + L-Taurine 500 mg + L-Carnitine 500 mg = 9,000 mg. This documents the framing; it does not establish what is inside the product.

Caution
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Declared contents barely fit the format’s physics

Declared contents total at least 12 g per 4-gummy serving: 9 g of major actives plus 3 g carbohydrate. A typical pectin gummy is assumed here to weigh 2.5–3.5 g, making a 4-gummy serving roughly 10–14 g. The panel does not state serving weight, so this remains a warning: the declared contents barely fit the format’s physics. The 2.5–3.5 g gummy assumption is not a measurement.

Caution
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Panel carries documented template or translation artifacts

The panel carries these quoted observations: “Creatine Monohydrate appears twice: a unitless "12" row and a 5,000 mg row”; “The "% Daily | Value" header is split into two columns”; “The panel says "2.000 calorie diet"”; “The panel says "Sodium Citral"”; “The panel says "Serving Per Container"”. US-market labels are produced under cGMP controls; these are template or translation artifacts worth checking, not proof that the label is fabricated or that the product is unsafe.

Caution
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Marketed differently from how it was studied

The listing uses “pre-workout” framing, but published research attributes creatine monohydrate’s effect to studied as a daily supplement — the effect comes from muscle saturation over weeks, not from timing a dose before a workout. Sources: NIH ODS — Exercise & Athletic Performance fact sheet, Creatine stability by moisture and temperature (PubMed).

Caution
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A lot of reviews for how new this brand is

569 ratings, at a typical 1–2% review rate, implies roughly 28,450–56,900 units sold — for a brand about 14 months old. Worth weighing whether that pace is plausible for a new, unknown label. The count is a documented fact; the conclusion is yours.

Caution
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Vitamin B12 is listed at 1,000% Daily Value

The panel declares 25 mcg vitamin B12 (1000% Daily Value). NIH does not set a B12 UL for adults, but high-dose B12 can interfere with some laboratory tests. This is a documented dose context, not a safety verdict.

Caution

Unresolved public record

What is still missing04

We looked for these signals but could not settle them from public sources. A gap is not a strike.

Multi-ingredient formula — panel read, serving weight unknown

We read the full Supplement Facts panel from the listing-image panel (below), but the label doesn’t state a serving weight, so the arithmetic can’t run. A gap in the label’s information, not evidence of a problem.

No data

Gummy format note (applies to creatine gummies as a category)

Creatine is stable as dry powder, while published stability research shows faster degradation as moisture and temperature rise. A gummy's delivered amount therefore depends on formulation and shelf-life testing; this record does not test this product.

No data

This item belongs to a catalog variation family

The paid catalog links this exact item to a parent listing. Review counts on public product pages may be shared across sizes, flavors, or other variants, so the count history is listing context — not evidence that reviewers received or tested this exact variant.

No data

180-day review-count history is on file

Exact-listing history records written-review counts from 105 on 2026-01-25 to 183 on 2026-07-15 (net +78). Count movements can reflect sales, listing variants, collection resets, or moderation; this history does not establish whether reviews are authentic.

No data

What to ask and check

What would settle the open questions

Why is this shown?
Everything we couldn’t verify is something a person can still ask about. Rather than leave gaps sitting as dead ends, we turn each one into a specific question — the exact document, citation, or number that would settle it — plus the things you can confirm yourself with the bottle in your hand.

Ask the brand or seller

1

Answered by the panel: 5 g of the 9 g headline is creatine. Which independent lab can confirm that amount in this product?

The panel resolves the front-label arithmetic. The remaining question is lot-specific contents and stability; published category testing gives context, not a test of this product.

2

What is the product’s UPC or GTIN?

The barcode is how a product gets matched to outside records — certification registries, label databases, recall data. Without it, almost nothing can be cross-checked.

3

Is this label filed with NIH’s Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD)?

Filing is voluntary, so absence proves nothing — but a filed label puts the full ingredient table on public record where anyone can read it.

Most brands and sellers publish a contact route. A clear answer adds evidence to the record; no answer leaves the question open.

Check for yourself — no one’s permission needed

1

Compare the panel on the bottle in your hand to the one shown in this record.

Ours was read from listing photos and can contain reading errors. The physical label is the source of truth — if they disagree, tell us and we’ll correct the record.

2

Check the lot number and expiry on the bottle against any COA you’re given.

A certificate that doesn’t name your lot doesn’t describe what you’re holding.

These are the open questions on this specific record — not a warning about the product, and not a suggestion to buy or avoid it. Getting them answered is how you decide for yourself.

Record built July 23, 2026. Sources: source listing observed at check time · USPTO Trademark Search · Keepa exact-listing history · NIH / published research · certification and regulator records where available. LookCloser publishes evidence and gaps; it does not advise for or against any supplement. Evidence-based corrections welcome.