Gummy gate is showing no sign of slowing, as James Smith has revealed a host of big brands are wildly over inflating the amount of creatine actually in their creatine gummies.
The Dark Knight of the fitness realm recently outed supplement brand Ovrload after tests showed their creatine gummies contained, well, little to no creatine at all.
Now, it looks like he’s set to blow the lid off an even bigger scandal with fresh data.
During a question and answer session on his Instagram, one fan asked: “Are there any updates on the creatine gummy scandal?”
To which he replied: “Yeah, looks like a lot of companies may start actually putting creatine in the creatine gummies.
“My bag is packed with VERY POPULAR BRANDS. I’ve seen tests showing loads of them are sub 1% of their claims.
“I’m passing them over to get tested so I have my own report, but it is insane. There’s no way these companies don’t know what they’re doing.”
Ovrload Creatine Gummies: Where it all Started
Smith’s suspicions were first aroused when he tasted one of Ovrload’s creatine gummies.
Speaking in his YouTube exposé, he said: “I don’t know about you, the first thing I said when I tried one of these creatine gummies was, ‘there’s no way there’s creatine in that.’”
Determined to back up his claim, Smith sent a sealed bag of the Ovrload gummies to Eurofins for independent testing. The results were damning.
Instead of the advertised 1.5g of creatine per gummy, the lab results showed just 0.0848g – a fraction of what was promised.
“Looking at this we can assume there was once creatine in the whole of China, where the factory exists – it’s that little,” Smith added.
Ovrload owner, Johnny Lye, was quick to respond, halting sales and issuing a statement promising “an immediate and thorough investigation.”
“At Ovrload, we place customer satisfaction at the heart of our business,” the statement read.
“It is as a result of this that we have taken the decision to temporarily pause all sales of our products.
“It follows claims by a third-party competitor over the levels of creatine they contain.
“We take such allegations extremely seriously and have written to the third-party competitor in question to urgently demand further information as to the basis of their claims.
“Simultaneously, and out of an abundance of caution, we have launched an immediate and thorough investigation with our manufacturing partner and appointed an external industry-accredited testing laboratory to determine the facts.”
Ovrload is yet to resume sales, despite claiming to have restarted production with an alternative supply chain partner in mainland Europe.
The Scandal Is Growing
However, with Smith now setting his sights on other major brands, it looks like Ovrload won’t be the only company in hot water.
While he hasn’t yet revealed the names of the brands he’s investigating, Smith’s comments suggest that Gummy Gate is far bigger than anyone initially thought.
