I have heard that you should refrigerate R-ALA. Is this true?
I have 40 grams I just purchased from CNW and it seems very clumpy, moist and sticky, but it does disolve in water.
It has a yellowish color, sorta smells like rubber and has a slight bitter taste. Has this R-ALA gone bad or is it supposed to be like this?
Yes this is true with most R-Lipoic's the KRALA being an exception.
While many compounds are stable in powder forms and are easy to make R-Lipoic is not one of them. I recommend either AOR's which comes from europe (the source many of the studies in animals are based on) or Geronova (made in the US).
While I normally do not make brand recommendation some compounds are very diffcult to make and most companies can not reproduce many of the newer compounds at the same quality.