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Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy vs Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder

The published reviews of Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy and Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder, lined up: the five scores, what one serving delivers against the studied dose, the real cost per serving and what each label leaves out. Figures as of 28 September 2026.

The short answer

Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder scores 7.4/10 against Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy's 5.4. The widest gap is dose against the studied amount: 5 for Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy, 9 for Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder.

These sit in different categories. They are compared because one review names the other as an alternative, so read the dose rows with that in mind.

Pick Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy if…

It does not lead on any criterion we score. Read its review for the case in its favour.

Pick Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder if…

  • you want a serving that matches the amount used in research
  • you want the stronger evidence behind what it is sold to do
  • you want better value against the plain generic version

Criterion by criterion

The five criteria every review is scored on, published on the grading page. The overall score is their average.

Evidence for the marketed claim

How strong the research is for what the product is actually sold to do — not for the ingredient in general.

Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy6/10
Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder9/10Leads

Dose against the studied amount

Whether one serving delivers the amount used in the research behind the claim.

Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy5/10
Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder9/10Leads

Label transparency

Whether the Supplement Facts panel is published in readable text and every active amount is disclosed.

Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy5/10
Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder6/10Leads

Value against the generic equivalent

Cost per gram or per dose of the active ingredient, compared with the plainest version of the same thing.

Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy3/10
Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder5/10Leads

Safety and tolerability

Known risks and interactions, how well characterised they are, and whether the label warns about them.

Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy8/10
Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder8/10

Dose against the studied amount

What one labelled serving delivers, placed against the range on each ingredient’s evidence page. Where a label gives no figure, there is nothing to place, and that is the finding.

Green tea extractEvidence C

No single studied range in label units, so amounts are shown but not placed.

  • Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy100 mg per serving
  • Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine PowderNot in the formula

What it actually costs

Price divided by labelled servings, from a dated listing. A serving is whatever the label calls one, which is why the studied-dose row matters more than the headline figure.

  • Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino EnergyAbout £19.75–£26.83 for the 270 g tub at mainstream UK retailers in search listings on 28 September 2026 — roughly 66p–89p a serving. No per-serving figure: servings not recorded.
  • Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder£14.00–£40.00 at the brand’s GB store depending on pack size; £19.75–£27.41 for the 317 g tub across five UK retailers, checked 28 September 2026. No per-serving figure: servings not recorded.

Label checks

What each label discloses, and what it leaves out. Read from the reviews, not from the marketing.

Optimum Nutrition Essential Amino Energy

  • Every active ingredient has a stated amount
  • No third-party certification

Optimum Nutrition Micronised Creatine Powder

  • Every active ingredient has a stated amount
  • No third-party certification

How this comparison is built

  • Scores are the ones already published in each review. Nothing is re-scored for the comparison, and a product leads a criterion only when it outscores the rest.
  • Doses are read from the label rows in each review and placed against the studied range on the matching ingredient page. A figure that is not printed is never estimated.
  • Costs use a dated retailer price divided by labelled servings. Prices in different currencies are never ranked against each other.
  • Only products in the same category, or ones a review names as an alternative, can be compared. Commission never changes what appears here.

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