Which beta-alanine brands are third-party tested?
Our picks, each format ranked separately: Powders: BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine Powder, Unflavored (1 kg) (before delivery); capsules, softgels and tablets: Thorne Beta Alanine-SR (120 tablets). Where to buy
4 of the 11 beta-alanine products we track are named at the exact package by a certifier. One more sits on a certifier's listing that names another package size, not the package we price. The remaining 6 appear in no database we searched.
NSF names packages by size and count against each certificate. A brand can sell the same formula in several sizes, or several flavors, and have one of them named, so “this brand is NSF certified” can be true while the package in your hand is not one NSF names. The group “Listed, but not this package” below is that gap.
Each row's format, size and serving come from the brand's own label and store page.
Certifier names this exact package, 4
The strongest evidence available here. For NSF, the listing names the package size sold; it was opened, its package text recorded, and its ID is on the product page. For USP, which names products rather than packages, the product is in USP's directory and the USP Verified Mark is on this package's own label, and both are on the product page.
| Product | Type | Per 3 g | Certificate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thorne Beta Alanine-SR (120 tablets) | Capsules, softgels and tablets | $1.44 | 1046814 |
| BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine Powder, Unflavored (1 kg) | Powder | $0.105 | 1799986 |
| BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine Powder, Unflavored (250 g) | Powder | $0.277 | 1799986 |
| BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine Powder, Unflavored (100 g) | Powder | $0.635 | 1799986 |
Listed, but not this package, 1
A certifier lists this brand's product, but the listing names another package size, or the same ingredient in another form, and not the package we price. Not a failure, and not a confirmation either.
| Product | Type | Per 3 g | Certificate |
|---|---|---|---|
| BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine Powder, Unflavored (500 g) | Powder | $0.156 | 1799986 |
Searched, and not found, 6
Not listed by NSF Certified for Sport, Informed Sport, Informed Choice or USP Verified when we read each one's list. These programs certify what a company submits to them, so a product can be absent from a list simply because it was never entered, which is not a finding against it.
| Product | Type | Per 3 g | Certificate |
|---|---|---|---|
| BulkSupplements.com Beta Alanine 3,000 mg (240 capsules) | Capsules, softgels and tablets | $0.249 | None found |
| Nutricost Beta-Alanine 3,400 mg (240 capsules) | Capsules, softgels and tablets | $0.308 | None found |
| Nutricost Beta-Alanine 3,400 mg (120 capsules) | Capsules, softgels and tablets | $0.44 | None found |
| Nutricost Beta-Alanine Powder, Unflavored (500 g) | Powder | $0.132 | None found |
| Nutricost Beta-Alanine Powder, Unflavored (300 g) | Powder | $0.17 | None found |
| EVLution Nutrition Beta-Alanine, Unflavored (200 g) | Powder | $0.225 | None found |
NSF Certified for Sport, the Informed programs' published product lists and USP's directory are each read in full, and each product page names the day. A product missing from this page has not failed a check. It has not had one.
Where to buy: the beta-alanine shortlist
The pick is the cheapest certified product, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no adverse finding on record, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving; per delivered dose where the retailer publishes a delivery rate. Where none does, it is the cheapest such product before delivery, and it says how far the order is from free delivery. It is the same pick the category page shows. Any answer shown beside it is the cheapest under a different rule and says so on its own line; answers that cost more than the pick fold under one line until you ask for them.
How these lines are chosen
Among 7 products and 7 retailer listings we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below. No product here that clears every other bar publishes a delivery rate below its free-delivery threshold, so the pick is priced before delivery.
How these lines are chosen
Among 4 products and 4 retailer listings we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below.
Full comparison of every product in this category: Beta-Alanine. Every question we answer: the question index.
What this rests on: prices we last recorded at the retailer named on each product page, which go stale, and each page says when it was checked; the products we track, not every product sold, and Amazon and Walmart are not among the stores; listings and labels read at the source, each linked from the page. Found an error? Tell us. The full method: How we compare.