Creatine Gummy Lawsuits: Create Wellness Case and Failed Lab Tests

As of mid-2026, only one class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States over mislabeled creatine gummies: an April 2026 case against Create Wellness, Inc. alleging its gummies contain less creatine than the label promises. That case sits inside a much larger quality problem the supplement industry is still working through, with independent lab tests finding creatine gummy products across the market that fall well short of their label claims, and some that contain essentially no creatine at all.

The Create Wellness Class Action

Plaintiff John Connolly filed the complaint on April 22, 2026 against Create Wellness, Inc., the maker of Create Creatine Monohydrate Gummies.¹²³

The suit covers the orange, blue raspberry, and sour green apple flavors and seeks more than $5 million in damages. The plaintiffs are represented by Bursor & Fisher.²

The case is still in its earliest stages. No settlement, ruling, or formal claims process has been established, and there is no consumer claim form to fill out yet. If you bought the product, keep receipts and packaging; any class notice would come later in the case if it moves forward.

How Create Wellness Is Fighting the Case

Create Wellness has said it will “vigorously defend” itself. CEO Dan McCormick disputed the lab findings in the lawsuit, pointing to batch-level potency testing the company runs through Eurofins, an independent laboratory, and to the product’s NSF Certified for Sport certification.² According to the company, an internal review of the specific batch the plaintiff purchased confirmed the creatine content met or exceeded the label claim.

Create Wellness also released Eurofins numbers for several flavors: blue raspberry at 1,491 mg per gummy (99.4% of claim), watermelon at 1,525 mg (101.6%), and orange at 1,404 mg (93.6%).⁴ Those competing results point to a real technical dispute at the heart of the case: different labs and methodologies can produce different numbers, and there is no single agreed standard for testing creatine in gummy form.

What Independent Lab Tests Have Found

The Create Wellness suit is the only class action filed so far, but it landed after a string of independent tests that flagged much larger problems across the category.

NOW Foods Testing

Supplement manufacturer NOW tested a dozen creatine gummy brands using high-performance liquid chromatography in its own lab, after reporting it could not find reputable third-party labs equipped to accurately test gummies. Six brands met or exceeded label claims and six failed. The failing brands were Astro Labs, Beast Bites, Create, Con-Cret, Greabby, and Njord. NOW also detected creatinine, an unwanted degradation byproduct, in all six of the failing products.⁴

Create Wellness disputed NOW’s results, again citing its Eurofins testing. Con-Cret also pushed back with certificates of analysis from Eurofins and Certified Laboratories, though it acknowledged those certificates did not cover the specific lot NOW had tested.

SuppCo Testing on Amazon Sellers

SuppCo, a supplement tracking platform, hired an independent lab to test six creatine gummy products sold on Amazon. Four failed dramatically:⁵

Happyummmm, labeled at 5 grams per serving, tested at 0.005 grams (less than 0.1% of claim).
DivinusLabs, labeled at 5 grams, tested at 0.025 grams.
Ecowise, zero creatine detected.
Vidabotan, zero creatine detected.

Force Factor and Create passed.⁶ The lab also reported elevated creatinine levels in every gummy that contained any creatine, consistent with degradation during production.

James Smith’s Testing

British fitness influencer James Smith sent nine creatine gummy brands to Eurofins. Five failed with less than 0.1 grams of creatine per serving, including Ovrload, Unique Physique, Gains Nutrition, and Push Gummies in both apple and strawberry flavors. Push Gummies was marketed at 5 grams per serving; Eurofins found 0.102 grams in strawberry and 0.112 grams in apple.⁷

Push Gummies halted sales, apologized, and accepted “full responsibility.” The company said it was suing its former China-based manufacturer for altering the formula without its knowledge and moved production to an Australian manufacturer.⁷

Other Legal and Regulatory Action

Attorneys separately investigated potential class actions against Astro Labs and Njord, the two brands NOW found to contain zero grams of creatine per serving. That investigation focused on buyers who purchased within the prior three years while living in California, Illinois, or New York. No lawsuit was filed; the investigation is marked complete and closed.⁸

Outside the U.S., New Zealand’s Commerce Commission opened a formal investigation into Push Gummies Limited on October 31, 2025, after receiving 34 consumer complaints about misleading labeling and advertising. The case concerns potential breaches of the Fair Trading Act and remains open with no outcome as of 2026.⁹¹⁰

No federal enforcement action from the FDA or FTC has been reported against any of the brands flagged in this testing. Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, the FDA does not approve dietary supplements or their labels before they reach the market. Manufacturers themselves are responsible for accurate labeling, and the FDA generally acts only after products are on shelves, prioritizing public health emergencies and suspected fraud.¹¹ That regulatory gap is a large part of why private class actions like the Create Wellness case, and independent testing efforts, have become the main check on label accuracy in this category.

Why So Many Creatine Gummies Fail Testing

A consistent finding across the testing efforts is that the gummy format itself may be fundamentally incompatible with creatine monohydrate. Gummy production involves moisture and heat, and many formulations include citric acid for flavor. All three can accelerate the breakdown of creatine into creatinine, which is why testers keep finding creatinine even when they find little or no creatine.⁵ Degradation appears to occur even in products that were dosed correctly at the factory. NOW’s inability to find an established third-party lab capable of reliably testing creatine in gummies underscores how new the format is on the analytical side, and helps explain the competing lab numbers now driving the Create Wellness dispute.

Experts quoted in reporting on the issue, including Professor Matthew Cooke, have recommended that consumers avoid creatine gummies entirely and use creatine monohydrate powder, which has decades of research behind it and does not face the same stability problems.⁷

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