{"id":581,"date":"2012-09-19T08:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T07:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:27:23","slug":"secret-ingredient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/secret-ingredient\/","title":{"rendered":"No Secret Ingredient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BULK POWDERS\u2122\u00a0have always had a very simple approach to sports nutrition. Source the best quality ingredients, list them clearly, dig out any research we can find to support their use\u2026 and let our customers make their own minds up.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we don\u2019t necessarily have the sexiest product descriptions in the industry.\u00a0 We tend to call a spade a spade. So you won\u2019t find any pots of \u201cRaging Beast XXXX\u201d, when you browse our site, but you might find plenty of helpful suggestions for <a title=\"Pre Workout Supplements\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/sports-nutrition\/pre-workout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pre-Workout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s also why you won\u2019t find any \u201cIngredient X\u201d.\u00a0 Our nutritionists may provide interesting combinations of ingredients, that we all think add up to an interesting and effective solution.\u00a0 But we won\u2019t claim \u201csecret\u201d and we won\u2019t claim \u201cspecial\u201d.\u00a0 In the words of arguably the greatest MMA competitor (Kung Fu Panda), \u201cThere is no secret ingredient. It\u2019s you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We are often bemused when we launch a new product and we get ten people jumping on <a title=\"Join bulkpowders on facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bulkpowders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> to say it won\u2019t work. It may be they have tried it and it didn\u2019t work for them (or maybe, more importantly it didn\u2019t work in conjunction with their other product).\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t work in other combinations or for other people.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know all the answers and never claimed to. \u00a0And nor does anyone who is a true professional in this game.\u00a0 It\u2019s a constant process of trial and error, moving hopefully ever upwards.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why we want you (we need you) to really <strong>understand every product<\/strong> as you move forward.\u00a0 In the end, it\u2019s down to your goals, your training programme and your sweat.<\/p>\n<p>We will never keep secrets (we are the only sports nutrition company to list everything).<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019ll leave the crazy names and BS content descriptions to our competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BULK POWDERS&trade;&nbsp;have always had a very simple approach to sports nutrition. Source the best quality ingredients, list them clearly, dig out any research we can find to support their use&hellip;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[353,363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supplements","category-news-and-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25255,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/25255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulk.com\/uk\/the-core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}