Amino acids

BCAA are leucine, isoleucine and valine. For EAA, check which essential amino acids the blend contains and in what amounts; the name alone is not enough. Standalone lysine or glutamine provides a different, specific ingredient. HMB is a metabolite of leucine, not a complete protein. Choose by the composition you want, rather than simply by the shared category.

A serving of an individual amino acid is not the same as a serving of protein from food or a protein drink. First decide whether you want to supplement overall protein intake or a specific ingredient. To supplement protein, compare protein products; leucine alone, for example, does not provide all the components and nutrients of a normal meal.

Not necessarily. With Woldo L-Arginin HCL, 4 capsules contain 2.4 g of arginine HCl, providing 1.98 g of L-arginine itself. When comparing it with another product, use the L-arginine figure. Likewise, without knowing the composition, you cannot treat a given weight of citrulline malate as the same amount of pure L-citrulline.

Check both the ingredient amount per capsule and the number of capsules in the recommended serving. Viridian L-Lysine contains 500 mg of lysine per capsule, while Balanced Amino Acid Complex contains 100 mg of lysine per capsule alongside other amino acids. These are different formulas; less of one ingredient in a complex does not by itself make the product inferior.