It really doesn’t have a taste or smell at all. I take it in a small amount of water and it’s basically just completely tasteless particles suspended in solution but not fully dissolved. You can get creatine caps, but its a pain to swallow enough of them.
I’ve never noticed a smell or taste to my micronized creatine monohydrate. Maybe because I take it in fruit juice?
Taking it in fruit juice also solves the “how to make a placebo” problem.
Creatine doesn’t dissolve in water at all, so the placebo would have to be something else that has that property.
It really doesn’t have a taste or smell at all. I take it in a small amount of water and it’s basically just completely tasteless particles suspended in solution but not fully dissolved. You can get creatine caps, but its a pain to swallow enough of them.