Mammoth 2500... the secret is out!

yomchi

Well it'll explain why Mammoth 2500 is the best tasting weight gainer on the market. I was talking to the Interactiv agent for Ireland yesterday. Mammoth have had to have proper food labeling on it for further legal distribution in Ireland, and according to him....wait for it....

Mammoth has 86g of sugar per serving!! :eek:

So that explains it... sad day for us all

tribulus

nasty, any mass gainers (mammoth is one?) with some decent carbs in them?

justsomebloke

Jon wrote:

Mammoth has 84g of sugar per serving!! :eek:

Fianlly a substitute to me having a big bag of skittles for breakfast

yomchi

tribulus wrote:

nasty, any mass gainers (mammoth is one?) with some decent carbs in them?

MassX - no simple carbs whatsoever.

When I was using Mammoth a good while back I got terrible spots down my side, everyone thought I was juicing, they wouldn't believe it was mammoth

rubadub

Jon wrote:

Mammoth has 84g of sugar per serving!!

Is that all sucrose though?

usually packets say
Carbohydrate 60.2g
(of which sugar) 4.5g

This "sugar" could be dextrose, fructose, maltose, maltodextrin etc. Are all of those sugars bad?

How big is a serving? it may be unpalatable sweetness wise if it was all just sucrose (table sugar)

daveirl

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Degsy

Try Weider Crash Weight Gain-68 grams of sugar per 100 grams...in years of drinking and eating badly i never got a belly so fast!

junii

Degsy wrote:

Try Weider Crash Weight Gain-68 grams of sugar per 100 grams...in years of drinking and eating badly i never got a belly so fast!

How does sugar help you gain weight? Is it turned into fat?

Would that weight gain stuff be safe especially with all that sugar. Is there not a danger of diabetes?

Degsy

junii wrote:

How does sugar help you gain weight? Is it turned into fat?

Would that weight gain stuff be safe especially with all that sugar. Is there not a danger of diabetes?

It seems to me that its turned STRAIGHT into fat,obviously you'd use a certain amount for energy but if weight gain was your goal you'd presumably be eating a high calorie diet anyway.Add a few thousand calories derived from sugar into the whole mix and you're heading for rapid lardyness as sugar is stored readily as fat and not passed in the urine.I dont know about diabetes,nobody in thier right mind would use the product long enough for things to go that far!

junii

Well, Im setting a target to gain 2 stone in 8 months by eating 3300 cals a day, maybe more. Would it be safe to take this stuff every day...Does it not send your body way off balance? Would you not get hives et cetera?

What is deemed a safe amount of sugar in a day?

Degsy

junii wrote:

Well, Im setting a target to gain 2 stone in 8 months by eating 3300 cals a day, maybe more. Would it be safe to take this stuff every day...Does it not send your body way off balance? Would you not get hives et cetera?

What is deemed a safe amount of sugar in a day?

You can get your calories from much better sources than sugar.Eat lots and lots and lots of food,wholemeal pasta,potatoes,brown rice and lots of protein with every meal.Keep sugar out of your diet alltogether,it has no real benefits at all.Taking that stuff every day you could be asking for all kinds of problems,better to bulk up by lifting heavy weights,stuffing yourself with good foods and get plenty of rest.

rubadub

I would sooner eat loads of peanuts if I wanted high calorie intake (but would go with what Degsy mentioned). Peanuts are about 50% fat so you can only eat so much per day. Tescos have "value" peanuts for next to nothing, even much cheaper than peanut butter, stick it in a blender and you have your own peanut butter.

daveirl

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topdog8

Jesus man thats news to me no wonder its packed with all the calories i swear to god

yomchi

exact quotes:

152g Carbs serving

86g are sugars

Sugars in the ingredients, majority is Crytilline Fructose.

You could use it a s a treat or a dessert with ice cream :-)