John: Creatine is creatine, this is just a version mixed with flavoring, nothing special, but it drives your cost per dose up. I say stick with a basic creatine.
Brad: I have no problems with creatine, you could probably skip the fruit and the punch.Rusty (Follow-up): So no benefits to the creatine being absorbed with a simple sugar? In the early 90’s I remember the guys going out and buying grape juice and mixing it with creatine.
John: Creatine monohydrate absorbs fine without anything added to it. Adding sugars to help with absorption was an interesting idea but not worth the extra calories. Even if it did help a bit with absorption you would probably just get super fat from consuming all of that extra sugar.
Brad: The research clearly shows that if you can get your insulin up into the supraphysiological range (higher than is physiologically normal) then it will speed up creatine update into the muscle. Of course, this typically takes more than 100 grams of glucose. To me this is just a little on the scary side, and definitely on the unneeded side.