Supplements for sports & muscles

Here you'll find supplements and superfoods for sport and muscles: products for which a claim on your muscle mass, your endurance or physical exertion applies. For each product we show word for word which claim that is. That way you know exactly what you're buying.

Which supplements suit sport?

Protein-rich superfoods such as spirulina, chlorella, moringa and cordyceps, plus maca, panax ginseng, tribulus and rhodiola. Below you'll find the exact claim for each product.

Protein-rich superfoods

• Spirulina powder and spirulina tablets: Spirulina is naturally high in protein**
• Chlorella tablets: Chlorella is naturally high in protein**
• Moringa powder and moringa capsules: Moringa is naturally high in protein**
• Cordyceps powder and cordyceps capsules: Cordyceps is naturally high in protein**
• Daily Greens: Daily Greens is high in protein**
• Functional Matcha Blend: Matcha Blend is high in protein**

For all these products: Protein contributes to the maintenance of muscle mass**

Endurance and exertion

• Maca powder, maca capsules, black maca powder and black maca capsules: Maca supports physical and mental performance*
• Panax ginseng capsules: Ginseng helps maintain endurance, energy and vitality*
• Tribulus terrestris capsules: Tribulus helps maintain muscle tone and energy levels*
• Rhodiola rosea capsules: Rhodiola helps the body adapt to emotional stress and physical exertion*

Powder or capsules?

Stir powder into a shake or smoothie; capsules and tablets you take with a glass of water and don't taste. Cordyceps and moringa both come as an organic powder and as 500 mg capsules. If you combine, watch for overlap: Daily Greens already contains spirulina, chlorella and moringa, the Matcha Blend maca and rhodiola.

Before or after training?

There's no fixed moment. Most labels say "preferably during or just after a meal", so with breakfast or the meal after your workout. Examples: cordyceps capsules 1 to 2 once or twice a day, moringa powder 5 grams once a day. Don't use rhodiola for more than three months in a row.

Cordyceps, maca or shilajit: what's the difference?

• Cordyceps is a mushroom with a mild, earthy taste, as an organic powder and 500 mg capsules.
• Maca is the root of Lepidium meyenii from Peru, regular or black, as an organic powder and capsules.
• Shilajit is a resin-like substance (Asphaltum punjabianum), as resin or capsules with 5% or 50% fulvic acid. You'll find it in our sports nutrition.

Electrolytes: when do you use them?

Often around exercise or on hot days. Electrolytes are minerals such as sodium and magnesium that you lose through sweat, among other things; most people already get enough salt from their food (Netherlands Nutrition Centre). Our lemon-flavoured electrolyte powder contains 137 mg of sodium and 56.3 mg of magnesium per daily dose of 6 grams. Read more in how to use electrolyte powder.

By category

Everything about one ingredient? Browse the products on this page by type:

• Cordyceps supplements: organic powder and capsules, plus 20:1 extract capsules.
• Maca supplements: maca and black maca, as organic powder and capsules.
• Moringa supplements: organic powder and capsules.
• Spirulina supplements: organic tablets and powder, also combined with chlorella.
• Chlorella tablets: organic, on their own or combined with spirulina.
• Matcha powder: organic matcha from culinary to ceremonial grade.
• Superblends: Daily Greens and the Functional Matcha Blend.
• Sports nutrition: electrolytes, cordyceps, maca, rhodiola and shilajit.

Read more about sport and muscles

• Electrolyte powder: what's in it and when?
• Cordyceps: which species is allowed in the EU?
• Whey or plant protein for your shake.
• Creatine monohydrate: 5 facts and myths.

*Health claim pending European assessment.

**Authorised health claim (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012) or nutrition claim (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006).

Food supplements are not a substitute for a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. Stick to the daily dose on the pack.