8.7oz C4 Ripped Sport Pre Workout Powder (Arctic Snow Cone) Expired

You should know that the studied, effective dose for citrulline malate is 6-8g (that's approx. 3.5-4.5 of citrulline when factoring out the malic acid compound). Beta-alanine should be 2-5g grams for the best effect.

When shopping for a solid product, you want to make sure these two criteria are met. For me, I want the highest dose of citrulline and beta alanine I can get, with no creatine (doesn't agree with my gut), and a decent stimulant combo (e.g., caffeine, tyrosine, etc.). For me the primo product is Dymatize Pre-Workout. This may not be the best for you however. Maybe you want caffeine free or some creatine content. There are a grip of others that meet this criteria... C4 is not it however.

In contrast, C4 has a "proprietary blend" which is a loop-hole method to not discolse how much of the active ingredient is actually in it. But you can always tell if it's underdosed by looking at the total content because the first ingredient will be the highest (by grams) and then descending. C4 has <4g blend with both beta-alanine and citrulline already included *red flag* that means you'd have to take at least two so there goes your serving size into half.

The rest of the ingredients in that blend are geared toward making this a "ripped" product CLA (shoddy results at best and even then, SIGNIFICANTLY underdosed for any potential effect). A new trademarked spice that doesn't have enough research behind it, and then some electrolytes. Mostly fluff.

The second blend is a "sport blend" at 1.135g. Companies have moved toward being responsible by telling you how much caffeine is in it, so subtract the 135g caffeine, that leaves with 1g of taurine. Taurine is cool, but it is such a cheap product, while it serves some function overall, it is used a low-cost functional ingredient (all energy drinks in your local convenience store are based on this) and the other two ingredients are the chemical names for Vit B6 and B12, which are miniscule at 35 micrograms each.

TLDR; this is a bunk, underdosed product guided at people who don't know WTF they're buying or what they are reading on the label. This company is essentially now MuscleTech 2.0 who used similar marketing tactics and tricks to sell cheap products to science naive consumers.

Dietitian here with extensive experience in dietary supplements: this is pretty underdosed for the main functional ingredients. There's a lot of fluff and proprietary blend to make this product look more comprehensive but it's not.

As a general rule of thumb, avoid Cellucor products entirely. Save ur money.