Nettogram compares sports nutrition and supplements on the only price that means anything: the price per unit of active ingredient.
What this site does
A 500 gram tub of creatine does not contain 500 grams of creatine. Monohydrate is 87.9 percent creatine, so there are 439 grams in the tub, and that is 88 doses of 5 grams, not 100. A one kilo bag of protein powder rarely holds a kilo of protein. A 500 milligram magnesium capsule holds a fraction of that as elemental magnesium, and how much depends on the form.
Manufacturers price per tub. We divide the price by the amount of active ingredient actually in it. That is arithmetic, not judgement. It is also why this site exists: almost nobody makes that division, and pricing in this category leans on that fact.
How the sum is made, including shipping, bulk discounts and the date the price was checked, is set out in How we count.
Who we are
Three people: Bodi, Juri and Lars. No editorial board, no laboratory, no seal of approval.
We test nothing ourselves and we do not assay products. Every figure comes off the nutrition table on the label and off the retailer’s product page, with the date it was checked. That is the whole method, and its weak spot comes with it: if a manufacturer fills in its label wrongly, we calculate with that wrong number. Which is why every product carries its source.
How we make money
Affiliate commission. If you buy something through a link on this site, the retailer may pay us a percentage of the order. You pay nothing extra and the price in the shop does not change.
What it does not change is the order products appear in. That comes out of the numbers and nothing else. The full explanation, including what is currently not being earned, is on Affiliate.
What we do not do
No health claims. On a page carrying product links, anything not worded exactly as it appears in the EU claims register is prohibited. So we say nothing about magnesium and sleep, not in passing, not with a citation attached. That claim was never applied for and therefore never authorised.
No customer reviews and no quotes. A review sitting next to a product counts as a claim made by the site itself. The same sentence is free on a forum and prohibited on this page.
No rankings and no product called “the cheapest” for as long as prices are entered by hand. That claim requires every price to have been measured at the same moment, and right now they are not. What is here is what was measured, with the date attached.
Mistakes
There will be mistakes. Prices go stale, labels change, and a number can be copied across wrongly. If you spot one, send it with the source to contact@nettogram.com. A correction with a source is always processed, including one that proves us wrong.
Contact and company details
Email: contact@nettogram.com. We are based in the Netherlands and cover retailers that ship within the EU.
Still to be filled in: legal form, registered address, Chamber of Commerce number and VAT number. Those details are legally required on a site carrying commercial links and belong here before this site comes out of noindex.