Pre-Workout Sweeteners: Our Approach to Flavor and a Clear Label
A pre-workout should be something you enjoy mixing before the gym. Flavor matters, and so does knowing what creates that flavor. Our Sweet Peach formula uses cane sugar and stevia leaf extract, with the ingredients and nutrition amounts plainly available on the label.
That straightforward starting point is more useful than treating every sweetener as interchangeable. Different ingredients create sweetness in different ways, and research questions about taste, digestion and blood glucose are not all the same question.
How the flavor comes together
The complete Other Ingredients list on our Sweet Peach label is citric acid, crystallized lemon, cane sugar, natural peach flavor, stevia leaf extract, beet juice and beta-carotene for color. The crystallized lemon contains citric acid, lemon oil and lemon juice.
Cane sugar contributes sweetness and carbohydrate. Stevia leaf extract is a concentrated sweetening ingredient, so a small amount can contribute to the flavor. The label’s nutrition numbers put the combination into context: Sweet Peach has 2 g of added sugars in a serving, rather than being presented as sugar-free.
You can enjoy a flavor and still know its numbers. That is the value of a complete ingredient list: it connects the taste in your shaker to the formula you chose.
What about artificial sweeteners and gut research?
A 2022 randomized trial in 120 healthy adults studied saccharin, sucralose, aspartame and stevia over two weeks. Researchers reported changes in microbiome measurements across the sweetener groups, with impaired glycemic responses in the saccharin and sucralose groups. Responses differed between participants.
Those findings add detail to an active research area. They do not mean that every microbiome change is gut damage or that one short study can rank every sweetened product. The experiment’s participants, exposures and measured outcomes matter when applying its results.
The FDA’s sweetener overview also explains how different sweetening ingredients are evaluated. For a shopper, the useful next step is to connect specific ingredient names and serving information to personal preferences—not make a decision from a category label alone.
Flavor is one part of the scoop
Beyond the Sweet Peach flavor, each serving supplies 220 mg of caffeine from guarana, 3,000 mg of L-citrulline and 2,500 mg of beta-alanine. Those details let you consider the training formula and the flavor together, without reducing the product to just one ingredient.
If you have a known intolerance or a dietary requirement, use the full label when choosing a product. Persistent or significant digestive symptoms deserve individual medical advice; changing a sweetener category is not a diagnosis.
To explore the rest of the formula, read about our guarana-derived caffeine and beta-alanine’s familiar tingle.