Is protein powder good for you? What a GB label may claim
Is protein powder good for you? A GB label may say only what the claims register allows: four authorised protein claims, and the whey lines refused.
Claims
What does creatine do? The research and the UK label rules
What does creatine do? It raises muscle creatine stores. The research, set against the two creatine claims Great Britain's register lets a label make.
Can you buy melatonin over the counter in the UK? The routes
No. The NHS calls melatonin prescription-only, and so does the MHRA. Every UK route, from the counter to a private prescriber, read and dated.
Do sleep gummies in the UK contain melatonin? Reviewed
No. The two UK-sold sleep gummies this desk read list no melatonin, which the NHS calls a prescription-only medicine. Their panels, side by side.
Is melatonin a food supplement or a medicine in the UK?
Melatonin is prescription-only in the UK, yet the GB claims register records two authorised food claims for it. Both documents read on 11 September 2026.
A third ruling against the same patch company, and section 15 is not the section it breaches
The ASA upheld both issues against a paid Instagram ad for a Dopamine Patch on 2 September. The rules it cited are worth reading closely, and so is the one it did not.
Herbal THRs versus food supplements, reviewed on what the registration proves
One shelf carries herbal products with a genuine MHRA registration number. The next carries the same plants sold as food. Reviewed on what a traditional herbal registration establishes, and what it conspicuously does not.
The MHRA drew a microbiome line, and the probiotics shelf sits outside it
A position paper published on 18 August places microbiome-based medicines inside the medicines framework and puts food supplements and non-therapeutic probiotics expressly out of scope.
Applied Nutrition's GLP-1 Friendly range, read as a label
A five-product British range named after a class of prescription medicine. Assessed on what the panels publish, what the claims framework permits, and where the collection's own name sits.
Permitted health claims still trail the marketing on UK shelves
The list of things a supplement label may lawfully say is public, finite and specific. A good deal of front-of-pack copy is written to gesture past it.