A reformulation is the most informative thing a supplement brand does: the moment a company tells you in milligrams what it thinks it can take away. Alpha Lion has reformulated SuperHuman Jacked for 2026, and the answer is blunt — out goes the creatine, the most-studied ingredient in the aisle, and the price did not follow.
Everything below comes from the brand’s published product page as of this writing, and from Stack3d’s before-and-after for the previous panel. Check the tub.
The published panel
Follow the serving the label states.
What actually changed
Per Stack3d’s comparison of the two versions, the 2026 formula removes creatine, previously 5 g, and HMB, previously 3.57 g. Citrulline goes from 9 g of citrulline malate to 6 g of L-citrulline, betaine from 3.2 g to 2.5 g, tyrosine from 2 g to 1 g, taurine from 2 g to 1 g and choline from 1 g of choline bitartrate to 500 mg of branded VitaCholine, while caffeine rises from 219 mg to 242 mg. In comes PeptiPump at 200 mg, beside the retained PeptiStrong.
Two hedges: the previous-formula figures are the trade outlet’s, not Alpha Lion’s; and on taurine the sources disagree — Stack3d says 1 g, the brand’s page none — so we take the page as current.
The citrulline line is not like-for-like. Citrulline malate is citrulline combined with malic acid — Stack3d puts the old tub’s at two-to-one — so 9 g of it was never 9 g of citrulline. Moving to 6 g of straight L-citrulline is a smaller cut than it looks, and a clearer label: the one change in the reformulation’s favour.
The case for it
The caffeine number is civilised, and it is split. At 242 mg across three release profiles, this is not the corner of the category that sells itself on how hard it hits — and the total is printed in milligrams rather than buried in a blend.
The choline is branded and stated — at half the previous amount. VitaCholine at 500 mg replaces what Stack3d’s comparison puts at 1 g of choline bitartrate. Better labelling, and not the cheap option — but it is half the material, and the brand does not say why. A swap, not a win.
Most of the panel is dosed in the open. Seven ingredients carry stated quantities — better than much of this aisle, where the pump component is the least-disclosed part of the label.
The case against it
Creatine is gone, and nothing took its place. Creatine monohydrate has the deepest research base in this aisle and is among the cheapest. Losing 5 g is not a neutral swap for 200 mg of anything.
The replacements are not independently evidenced. PeptiStrong and PeptiPump are Nuritas ingredients from fava bean and lentil — food-derived hydrolysates, not peptides in the pharmacological sense, whatever the naming suggests. PeptiStrong’s supporting work originates with Nuritas, which sells it; for PeptiPump neither the product page nor Stack3d points to any published work at all. Not disqualifying; not independent replication.
Four ingredients carry no dose at all. Taurine, the electrolyte blend, Tensia and black pepper extract are named without quantities — presence, not amount.
The price did not move while the contents did. At $59.99 for 21 servings that is $2.86 a scoop, and per Stack3d’s comparison that scoop now holds less creatine, HMB, betaine and tyrosine than the one it replaces.
No certification is displayed. The product page shows no third-party testing or banned-substance certification claim — decisive on its own for a tested athlete, and even a mark on the tub would be a claim about a batch, not a brand.
Caffeine tolerance is not a fixed quantity, and this 242 mg lands on top of the coffee, the energy drink and anything else already in you — the running total is what hurts people, and no tub’s label can see it. These are supplements: not evaluated by the FDA, not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and nothing here is medical advice.
Pros and cons
Verdict
The 2026 Jacked is not a bad pre-workout. It is a reasonably transparent one with a sensible caffeine load, and a worse buy than the tub it replaces for reasons of arithmetic rather than opinion: the same money now buys a scoop with no creatine or HMB in it.
If you liked the old formula, the least glamorous answer is the right one — buy this for the stimulant and pump side if it suits you, and buy plain creatine monohydrate separately. That puts the number back under your control, not the formulator’s.