BulkSupplements.com Potassium Citrate Powder - for Hydration Support, Mineral Supplement, Potassium 99mg - Gluten Free, 300mg per Serving, 500g (1.1 lbs) (Pack of 1)

I am thoroughly impressed with this product. The potassium citrate dissolves in water almost instantly upon pouring it in. Little or no stirring is required. It doesn't have much of a taste, so it's not unpleasant to drink in just water. I actually mix it with a Bulk Supplements magnesium citrate which doesn't mix as easily. Even then, it's still palatable. (I chug it down anyway, but it wouldn't be awful if I took my time with it either AND you can mix it in a smoothie or protein shake or whatever.) Against their precautionary warnings on dosage, I use about a teaspoon per day. I've had intermittent problems with cramps in my gastrocnemius and soleus (calf muscles) ever since I was put on a prescription medication called Accutane about 18 years ago. I started running 3 months ago, and the gastroc cramps have occurred in the middle of a run and forced me to limp home the rest of the way, stretching every 20 feet or so. Some mornings, when I first wake up and stretch in bed, the calf cramps will hit me and I just want to scream because my calf muscle(s) start automatically tightening painfully. I use an app to track my diet...calories, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, nutrients, etc. I paid particular attention to my daily potassium intake, and even with bananas and potassium pills, I was still coming short of the RDA of about 3,500 mg per day. I was lucky to get 2,500 mg/day on my best day. So I decided to give this product a try. I received it earlier this week and I've been on it for about 4 days. I haven't had the chance to run this week, but I'll update this review in the future to let you know if the calf cramps have stopped which I fully expect. UPDATE 09/11/2014: I have not had a calf cramp while running since I began using this product. I haven't tested the effect with stretching upon waking; I avoid plantarflexion during that morning stretch out of fear cramps will occur. But the running is the more functional activity I was having problems with. Now, I don't have that problem. Cause and effect of potassium citrate consumption? I don't know. But I can't think of any other things in my diet that have changed much since I started using it, so I tend to credit the potassium citrate for it. Some supplements work, some supplements don't, some take a long time to realize the benefit. This appears to be one of the few that works immediately. Again, I would highly recommend this product. UPDATE: 12/02/2014: I ordered another package of potassium citrate as my original 250g package is getting low. I am still taking a half a teaspoon to a full teaspoon per day. I have not had calf cramps, not even once, since I started using this product.

I used to work out a lot, and got out of the swing of things for about two years. I am 6’2 currently 225lbs. I have recently started hitting the gym regularly and started my supplementation routine up again. I am not a professional bodybuilder, more casual, but I do deem certain supplements to be critical in muscle building and repair. I don’t see the point in investing 2 hours a day 4 days a week at the gym if I am not going to supplement my body accordingly. As someone who has been going to the gym since I was 13, I have seen others work out for years and yet somehow their physique never changes or improves. They may get stronger, but their body literally looks the exact same as it did 2-3 years ago. I have also witnessed many steroid users beef up, and deflate, only to be left with ruined joints, acne scars, a roid gut, and a false sense of dignity. This is what I try to avoid, and why I choose natural supplements. I have tried just about every supplement, done extensive research, and taken note of what actually works and what is simply overhyped BS. I recently discovered Bulk Supplements on Amazon. They have offered me a few samples of products and I have agreed to review a few of their products in return. My supplementation includes: Whey Protein, Casein Protein, Creatine, L-Arginine, Citrulline, L-Glutamine, BCAA‘s(2:1:1), Beta Alanine, Green Tea (ECGC), Calcium Citrate, Fish Oil (Omega-3), Zinc, a multi-vitamin, and Magnesium. These are supplements that have been clinically proven to actually work, and fit in with my goals of replacing a light layer of body fat with lean muscle. My goal is not to gain weight and get beefy, but to be lean and mean, yet healthy. Bulk Supplements Company Review: Fast, friendly, GREAT customer service, willing to give free samples to those who use them, have not had any problems at all with this seller. Product Review: I have gotten all of the supplements listed above from Bulk Supplements except for Whey Protein, and my multi-vitamin. The supplements all come in an opaque, silver, Ziploc bag. I have opted to ditch the bags and use other containers as the zip lock on the bag is sometimes uncooperative. Also, if you buy in bulk, and the bag gets low, you have to reach your whole hand in to the bag to scoop out product. Product gets all over your hand and it can get a little messy trying to scoop it right out of these bags. This isn’t a big deal at all to me; it’s just easier to use a different container with a screw on or lock tight lid. You will also want to pick up a measuring spoon set, as most of the supplements are in powdered form and require a specific dosage. You can estimate using a teaspoon only, but a measuring spoon set is fairly cheap. All of the supplements are clean, pure, and exactly what they say they are on the label. You will need to do your own independent research to determine the dosage of what you want to take, because the bags have recommended ranges of dosages, and not specific dosages listed. So, do your research based on your body weight and type, and figure out the dose you need, and when and how often you need to take it! To summarize, Bulk Supplements is an honest, customer friendly company, with good products to match. I have no complaints about anything.

So I've been working out my whole life and just recently started yoga as well, more specifically hot yoga. Plus, I go into the sauna after workouts at the gym several times/ week too. I am exerting myself and sweating a ton. A week or 2 into adding yoga into the mix, my legs during the evening through the night would not cramp, but tighten... like I wanted to keep stretching them out. This eventually led into effecting my sleep big time, because I'd be waking up several times/ night to stretch out. I thought it was my salt/ electrolyte intake; so I had more and more sea salt.. this didn't help. Then I added in more magnesium... even magnesium oil on my legs, which definitely helped, but maybe around 50% cure. I even went out and bought a bunch of bananas and other veggies/ fruits that had the highest potassium to blend up and drink. This worked a small amount but made me even more full and bloated... as I'm mostly low carb diet. Welcome to potassium citrate! I took 1/2 tsp as soon as I got it and I instantly felt better... muscles felt more relaxed and loose. And, my mental clarity returned, I was at ease. Thinking about it today, exactly 1 week in, I no longer have ANY muscle pain in my legs! I can't believe this simple addition to my supplementation was the missing link. I've been playing sports and super active my entire life and intaking so much sea salt, but no potassium! No wonder why my legs have been so sore all of the time. If you are an active person or more specifically sweating a lot daily, then you NEED potassium. I eat tons of avocado and sweet potato (both are among the highest potassium level foods), and only had a minor effect on relieving soreness or replenishing potassium stores. 100% try this potassium citrate if this is you. Now I take 1/4 tsp on days where I don't sweat much or have light workouts. Days where I'm working out, sauna and yoga too, I'll have 1/4 tsp after my workout and then 1/4 after yoga. I don't think I need more than this, because I do eat high potassium foods too. It really helps with mental relaxation, as well as calming of the nervous system too. Simply put, I love this Potassium! Can't believe I went so long without it all my active life!

I ordered it as a supplemental source of potassium. I did not want pills, as they always contain excipient ingredients. Unlike lite salt (which also contains potassium) this is a bulk product that contains no sodium. Great! Also, its citrate has two side side benefits: 1) Citrate intake helps to prevent the most common type of kidney stone. 2) Citrates inhibit an enzyme that supports one stage of glycolysis, making them useful in reduction of high blood sugar levels. My visual inspection of the powder I received showed no clumping. That testifies to the thorough sealing and air tightness of its packaging, because potassium citrate is very hygroscopic. I looked for obvious contamination, but saw no foreign matter in it. And it dissolved readily in filtered tap water. Potassium citrate formula : C6H5K3O7 So there are 3 atoms of K per molecule of potassium citrate. Thus, potassium citrate is comprised of (3×39) / 306 = 38% potassium (K) With my AWS model AC-100 100 gram digital scale I measured a ¼ US cup volume of Bulk Supplements Potassium Citrate granules to be 63 grams. Since ¼ US cup = 12 US tsp, and the USA adult DV of K is 4700 mg, we have for this supplement : ½ tsp = 2625 mg C6H5K3O7; 998 mg K; 21% DV 1 tsp = 5250 mg C6H5K3O7; 1995 mg K; 42% DV 2 tsp = 10,500 mg C6H5K3O7; 3990 mg K; 85% DV 3 ¼ tsp = 17,053 mg C6H5K3O7; 6480 mg K; 138% DV So the 275 mg serving ( which is only 0.05 tsp ) labeled on this powder's Supplement Facts is insignificantly small. That dose provides only 2% USA adult DV, which is incorrectly labeled as a 3% DV for K. The next richest supplementary source of K ( to this citrate powder ) is Morton Lite Salt, but 2 US tsp of it would be required daily in order to get 80% DV of K, and that would mean an intake of 96% of the sodium DV. TIPS In general, American adults are recommended to get at least 4,700 mg (100% DV) of potassium daily, while limiting daily sodium to 1,500 mg. But most Americans are not meeting either goal. See the two USDA reports: 'Potassium Intake of the U.S. Population' and 'Sodium Intake of the U.S. Population'. Perhaps the U.S. National Library of Medicine has set the potassium DV absurdly high? The Austrailian Ministry of Health has set their adult men's DV at 81% as high as the USA's, and their adult women's DV is only 60% as high as the USA's. The richest dietary source of potassium (K) is not a banana, but chard. However, it is extremely high in oxalate. A baked potato (with skin), is richer in K than a banana, but one would have to consume five of them per day in order to obtain 100% of the USA adult DV of K ! Extended release potassium citrate tablets are prescribed as a long term therapy for treating calcium oxalate kidney stones. The daily intake of those tablets totals 6400 mg as four equally spaced doses. These patients are also advised to restrict their dietary oxalate intake, while increasing their intake of water. CAUTION There is a purity issue with this Chinese product. Bulk Supplements did not provide a certificate of analysis with the package. That should be a document prepared by an independent 3rd party. Had they provided an acceptable report I would've given this product a 5-star rating.

I am an older research analyst who was never sick and then recently suffered from a myriad of ailments for over a year. After 12 MD visits, 104 lab tests, 12 different diagnoses, and 14 prescriptions (for which I took none), I decided to apply my work skills to my health. I exercise daily and thought I ate "well". Not until I kept a detailed food log for several weeks and analyzed what I put in my pie-hole did I discover that I did not get near enough Magnesium, Calcium, Zinc, and Potassium. This analysis also assumed the mineral content of food is what it was originally documented as having...not taking into account over farming etc. I developed informative correlations between mineral deficiencies, typical age related problems, and my dietary intake of minerals. Why did my blood work and RBC content for minerals keep coming back "normal"? I, like most people, have good homeostasis. I read numerous medical and other information papers stating that serum levels are not an accurate indicator of your body stores of minerals. My analogy I created is it is like discerning how much motor oil you have in your car engine from your oil pressure gage/idiot light. There is no readily available/inexpensive mineral dipstick for the body's stores. I know there is hair analysis or under tongue scraping tests. I supplemented with all the minerals and the typical 99mg potassium pills. I had a turn-around in almost all my ailments and noticed when I took small multiples of the potassium pills I would have spurts of "wellbeing". I took a few days of Thirty to Forty 99mg potassium pills and noticed longer periods of sleep, better clarity, etc. I found this product and now take whatever I need to get around 5000mg total potassium a day. Typically, 3000 to 4000 mg a day in four 800-1000 doses dependent on my food/sodium intake. It is easy on my stomach and I, like many others, have developed a method that is not offensive. BTW, ALL my ailments and out of specification body metrics are gone with no Meds...hmmm?? One of the papers I read for a medical perspective was "New Guidelines for Potassium Replacement in Clinical Practice" by four MDs. My bottom line: We deplete our mineral stores as we age/stress. Good Health Takes Attention and Work.

I've complained for years that no human can get the proper amount of potassium and it's BS. You would have to eat 1200 calories in bananas alone to reach the 4.7g recommended per day. It's ludicrous! Who eats 11 bananas per day? What kind of intelligent design created a human that requires so much of this seemingly impossible to obtain element??? Add to this the fact that since *some* people take heart medication where it would literally kill them if they took too much potassium, potassium is limited in the US to 99mg per pill. Anybody do the math? 47.5 pills per day? No thanks! And has anybody else ever heard of someone taking potassium pills on heart medication and dying? Why does it need to be a federal law? Potassium control is actually more serious than gun control in the US. You may ask, who gives a crap about potassium? Well I found two major benefits from using potassium which will benefit just about anybody. 1) There are 3 electrolyte ingredients in the magic hangover potion, Pedialyte: sodium, zinc and potassium. Sodium is in everything. It does not cure hangovers. Zinc is in multivitamins. They do not cure hangovers. I can verify that the potassium seems to alleviate a lot of the problems experienced in a hangover regarding the electrolytic issues. 2) When you work out, your body produces lactic acid. Often times this is why your muscles 'give up', because your body literally injects acid into them to make you want to go back and chill on the couch. Potassium slows down the creation of lactic acid, which makes you magically be able to work out longer. There are numerous other benefits to getting your proper amount of potassium, including being healthy, which many people enjoy. Potassium can also dissolve in soda. I put about 1g into some Mountain Dew and the taste is still enjoyable and tolerable. Fair warning, this stuff tastes nothing like salt, and you will really regret eating it, generally. Do not try to add it to water, it will make it taste terrible. Trust me, if you want to truly experience life, you gotta get those potassium levels up.

Nice potassium supplement. Great for keeping a good mineral balance. I used to work as a product designer, developer and sourcing agent, as well as a buyer for big box retail, so I can be pretty rough on quality issues. My pet peeves include bad descriptions or instructions, plastic on metal construction (doomed to fail), planned obsolescence, and Sellers selling items they know don’t work. I mean, how many people have to tell you it doesn’t work until you see that and change the manufacturing process? I review products on hand selection by small, foreign or startup companies who launch new or innovative products often ask consumers to test drive their products to obtain feedback and for market exposure. They know that even focus group information can be gamed by a savvy marketing group to say what the seller wants to hear, or to rephrase negative opinions of a product that the consumer might want the maker or seller to know. And then, value for money is something that sellers don’t have a good handle on, especially foreign ones who don’t know what the market will bear, and often, setting a fair market value for a product is hard to do with a new product, since more than cost of goods factor in. Often, sellers will make a product that is too expensive due to excellent formulations or high quality materials or make that the consumer just won’t bear – or perhaps they will. The fact is, no one really knows until the product goes to market at a certain cost and then the consumers will ultimately decide whether the product is a good value for money. I feel that I provide help to other consumers by offering my opinion on certain products so that they can make an informed choice, before they purchase a product with their hard-earned money. Because of my background, I can often spot things others might not be looking for and also see problems that might not be immediately apparent until after you’ve owned the product a while. There are plenty of poor quality products out there, as well as really good ones that no one knows about as of yet. I’m hoping you find this explanation of why you should believe my reviews, rather than just assuming I’ll write anything for a discounted product to be helpful and understand my approach to reviewing products. I guess my motivation in offering to review products is to bridge the gap between the sellers and the customers by critically evaluating products on Amazon. Since so many Asian or new vendors sell directly using Amazon’s warehousing programs, the pass-through of my old job as a product developer and buyer is absent on Amazon, and customers, like me, are left without a resource to the pass-through of a critical and experienced eye. And I buy practically everything in my household on Amazon. Yes, some of the reviews on Amazon will be from reviewers who game the system by getting discounts for writing reviews. I can assure you that my reviews are different because I actually do care about the quality of the items I receive. I don’t need a house full of junk for pennies on the dollar and I can afford to buy anything that I would want. And I would never write reviews for money. That’s just unconscionable. You should know that some people actually do that and that that is against Amazon’s policies. However, a discount (not always a large one) for customer evaluation, is legitimate, and it’s up to you to read the review and to see whether the one or two lines of “it’s great” or “works”, is enough to convince you to purchase. Personally, I never listen to the one or two line reviews with hardly any specifics as to why a product works as it should, how it performed or problems with the product if they have the discount disclaimer because I know that some people of limited means are trying to just get discounted items without any understanding that you would not appreciate that product when you paid many multipliers of what they paid. So, I’m adding this lengthy disclosure to my review: I purchased this item with my own money or on my own account at a discount for the purposes of evaluating the item. I received no compensation for this review and I am not required to give this item a positive review. I am also not associated with the manufacturer in any way. I am brutally honest in my reviews because I buy a lot of products on Amazon myself and I don’t want to order something that doesn’t live up to the hype. If you look at my other reviews, you’ll see that if I am not happy with a product, I won't hesitate to tell it as it is. I’ve left quite a few 1 or 2 star reviews for products that were of poor or questionable quality, regardless of any discount I may have received. Believe me, my time evaluating products / writing these reviews and my reputation is worth more than a few shekels and I never buy stuff I wouldn’t normally use. I like to think that I help people make good buying decisions and that I offer my real opinions for the products I review. [...] I don’t get anything but satisfaction of knowing that I’ve helped from your helpful votes.

Be careful as their product line packaging is awfully simila. make sure you read exactly what's on the front before you pour it into your container. I overdosed on potassium thinking it was creatine as it's exact same package and it was bought on accident. Kinda scary !

Great product

Bought to diy LMNT (they have the recipe on their website) and this is one of the ingredients. Works well, dissolves easy enough. Would recommend.

I've always been a heavy sweater, it was never a problem in my youth, 3 kids later and pushing 40 I developed debilitating nocturia which has destroyed my ability to sleep and made my life very difficult. Since taking this, instead of getting up 5-15 times a night, it's been a consistent 1 time. If I have a busy day and forget to take it, there's a noticeable difference. Given how huge and affordable this bag is I feel like I might be able to sleep through the night forever now.

Good quality and good packaging.

Product is great. Would recommend adding a desiccant sachet and checking the correct RDI as the company has a habit of suggesting much higher amounts than the average RDI.