It seems like most supplements are now up to 50% less expensive on iHerb (for me). I live in Hong Kong so prices do vary.
I used to always use iHerb as they always had 20% off promotions which made them less expensive than Amazon.
However, about a year ago, Amazon prices became cheaper than iHerb even with any discounts that iHerb tacked on. They also carried brands like BulkSupplements that I couldn’t get on iHerb.
However, starting this year, iHerb has taken the lead as the least expensive as prices on Amazon have shot up. Now it’s about a 70/30 split where iHerb is cheaper most of the time. Amazon is still better due to BulkSupplements which doesn’t sell on iHerb. Most of the supplements I get on iHerb are NOW or Nutricost.
One last thing is that if the prices are close to each other, I always favor iHerb. This is because Amazon may have fake supplements as it is a marketplace of vendors. IHerb is one company that sources directly from suppliers so there are no fake products. Amazon has to be cheaper by 10% or more for me to consider using them.
Of course, this is all data for shipping to Hong Kong. I wonder if this is true for the USA or EU?
I also try to avoid amazon when possible. Do you know if things can still be fake when you buy them from the company’s store? I have assumed that is an exception .
I don’t trust Amazon for supplements. To much fake stuff. I prefer to pay more € on iHerb but knowing that it was correctly stocked and that the product I buy is a real.
Amazon supplements are upwards of 50% or even more off during prime days. I use that to purchase 6 months worth at a time to make it to the next prime day.
I don’t know the answer but I trust iherb much more than Amazon. I know Bezos only added a/c for the wellbeing of employees after a lot of internal pressure. I figure if he doesn’t care about humans, then he will try to get away with what he can get away with.
Great question and point @DrT because I hate choking down those SIX pills.
I haven’t tried it, but based on my hating the taste of creatine (that most people can’t taste), I have assumed I won’t like the taste of taurine. Google told me it was slightly bitter?
I do put glycine and lysine powder in my protein shakes and don’t taste those.
I didn’t sleep well after taking in the evening, switched to first thing in the morning and have had no trouble. I take 5g all at once. I may increase a little more. Have slowly been increasing.
Exactly my approach. Powdered taurine in my morning drink mixture (taurine, FOS, cranberry extract, blueberry extract, dissolved in green tea), first thing I drink after waking up. After dinner, taurine capsules (usually taken with my cholesterol meds). I don’t think I can taste the taurine powder, but in any case, my green tea with the berry extracts and FOS has a nice flavor (to me!).
Well, I can’t taste it. In any case, isn’t coffee also bitter? (Maybe just bad coffee, LOL!)
I used to take NAC and that has a really sulfurous taste so I used to mix that into fruit juice.
Maybe try taurine in fruit juice?
