Muscle Moose in the United Kingdom has almost always been a functional company, offering convenient ways to get particular types of nutrition and active ingredients into consumers’ day-to-day lives. You have the brand’s signature Moose Juice energy drink, an energy shot, the oat-based Big Protein Flapjack, and the small but flavor-filled Dinky Protein Bar. The brand has reached into supplements with a protein powder, and it is doing it again this week with the first Moose Juice Pre-Workout.
Being a functional food company, we didn’t expect a huge amount of ingredients and dosages in Muscle Moose’s entry into the world of pre-workouts, although it does better than it could have. The formula packed into the Moose Juice Pre-Workout includes 3g of straight citrulline, another 3g of arginine, a gram of taurine, 1.5g of betaine, and half a gram each of tyrosine and CocoMineral coconut water. Caffeine is in there too for energy by way of caffeine anhydrous and green tea, combining for 197mg a serving.
Those dosages do leave room for a double serving, bringing you to just under 400mg of caffeine and more respectable amounts of the likes of citrulline, betaine, and tyrosine at 6g, 3g, and 1g, respectively. The downside to double dosing is it halves the servings, and with just 20, that comes all the way down to ten. It’s not a bad blend, expensive, but not too bad, and you may notice it doesn’t have the traditional beta-alanine, something Muscle Moose proudly declares on the label saying “Zero Itch Formula”.
The cost of Moose Juice Pre-Workout is rather high for what you get at £25.99 (32.24 USD). That price is typical for a cost-effective or value-focused supplement; however, with just ten servings of the solid two-scoop performance, the value definitely drives down. It is available starting this week from Muscle Moose’s online store with three flavors to choose from in Cloudy Lemonade, Fruit Punch, and Blue Raspberry.
