Best Tasting Protein Drink?

thewools

Any opinions?

Everyone I try are just pure muck - I Have tried Maximuscles / Big Whey etc etc and all are horrible. Yuck...

I love my RAM drink - but thats not a Protein drink - is there any Protein drinks close or similar to the taste of RAM (orange)

mkdon05

I find the NutritionX Strawberry flavour protein to be the nicest ever, and iv tried a good few of them!!! Probably the closest to the RAM


(PS I have no attachment to NutX)

Gumbo

i bought this whey dribk a few weeks ago, it was my first time trying a protein drink and i have to say i was really bricking it when i made me first one. i dint know what to expect in the taste, but i was surprized it tasted just like the old strawberry yazoo milk drinks!

http://www.thesupplementfactory.com/p12/Whey_1lbs/product_info.html

i bought the 1lbs taster version. might be worth your while before commiting to the bigger tubs. if you live near me i'll let you sample mine LOL

COH

The cartons of muscle-milk taste great!

shels08

Optimum Nutrition double rich chocolate is SEXY!!

Cravez

COH wrote: »

The cartons of muscle-milk taste great!

+ 1. The powder (depending on the flavour) is much nicer, especially chocolate!

BSN's syntha-6 is probably the best tasting brand iv came across though. Pretty much all the flavours in both water and milk are teh sex. I always recommend it if people do find it hard chugging down other protein powders

Hanley

You'll struggle to find a protein powder as nice as a carb and protein blend. It just doesn' lend itself to tasting lovely

Arctic89

Supplement Factory Whey Strawberry tastes good,though I got sick of it after a while. Anyone try the chocolate? If its as good as the strawberry then it should be nice.

Was using Nut X : Pro Matrix Choco all summer and it tasted crap, though I've always wondered how their choc-mint version would taste. Nut X: Pro X aint bad either, but it tends not to mix to well and that makes it hard to drink.

Jimmy Bottlehead

Arctic89 wrote: »

Supplement Factory Whey Strawberry tastes good,though I got sick of it after a while. Anyone try the chocolate? If its as good as the strawberry then it should be nice.

Was using Nut X : Pro Matrix Choco all summer and it tasted crap, though I've always wondered how their choc-mint version would taste. Nut X: Pro X aint bad either, but it tends not to mix to well and that makes it hard to drink.

Well a few months ago, I tried the Choc Mint Pro Matrix, and it was SEXY. Seriously. Delicious.
However, with people claiming all sorts about Nutrition X, and taste changes, and the like, I dunno if it's still the case.

davyjose

Two scoops of Supplement Factory Strawberry Flavour Protein
400 mls milk
Handful of mixed frozen berrys
Three scoops of oat
Throw it all in a blender, and you sir, will have the nicest thing you'll put in your mouth all day. Yum yum yum.

Al_Fernz

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

1 scoop choco mint whey + 1 scoop vanilla whey + Milk = Melted mint cornetto

Pro-Nutrition

thewools wrote: »

Any opinions?

Everyone I try are just pure muck - I Have tried Maximuscles / Big Whey etc etc and all are horrible. Yuck...

I love my RAM drink - but thats not a Protein drink - is there any Protein drinks close or similar to the taste of RAM (orange)

RAM, now thats a great product. It walks off our shelfs. If your looking for a great tasting protein powder I would have to say BSN Syntha6 strawberry its a high quality protein, mixes easy and taste fu***** amazing.

Beanmachine

BSN's Syntha 6 is the nicest protein shake on the market it is unreal all flavours are lovely

billyhead

I am taking Dynamatize Elite Whey berry blast and butter toffee flavour at the mo and I must say they taste pretty good. ON vanilla flavour and banana cream casein are nice aswell. I mix mine with milk which improves the tase.

engrish?

thewools wrote: »

Any opinions?

Everyone I try are just pure muck - I Have tried Maximuscles / Big Whey etc etc and all are horrible. Yuck...

I love my RAM drink - but thats not a Protein drink - is there any Protein drinks close or similar to the taste of RAM (orange)

ON Chocolate or Strawberry, Chocolate Mint is lovely too. Seriously beautiful stuff, I find myself craving the chocolate.

Beau

RAM Q's - dosen't it have 30g of protein per serving?

Johnny Utah

Sorry for asking this, but what is the benefit of taking a protein supplement/protein drink?

BossArky

Johnny Utah wrote: »

Sorry for asking this, but what is the benefit of taking a protein supplement/protein drink?

Protein repairs and builds muscle after a hard workout.

When you run hard or lift heavy stuff etc you tear your muscles slightly. The protein repairs these tears and allows the muscle to grow slightly bigger in anticipation of the next onslaught.

Your best bet is to get protein from real foods such as tuna, chicken, eggs, milk, meat, nuts, etc as these are deemed more "whole" protein.

Protein supplements such as shakes are an easier alternative to carrying around a sackful of chicken and tank of milk.

If you are looking to put on a stack of weight (muscle) then workout hard (weights) and have 1g of protein per lb of bodyweight.

Johnny Utah

I already eat plenty of the foods you listed, but I thought about taking a protein supplement to stop hairloss.

The only thing I'm unsure of is when people mention "nuts" as part of a diet in the fitness forum, are they referring to the KP Dry Roasted Peanuts that you can get in Tesco?

unreggd

Beanmachine wrote: »

BSN's Syntha 6 is the nicest protein shake on the market it is unreal all flavours are lovely

+1

for flavour it wins hands down

joepenguin

BSN were giving out some free samples with nitrux there. Cant remember if it was a pure protein shake or had added fat/carbs. I think it did. In any case it was cookies and cream flavour and was lovely!!!

Taking pro matrix berry blast at the minute. Its quite nice. I had that dymatize a few years back, the berry blast one. It was one of the best i tasted but then they went and changed it.

Pro-Nutrition

Johnny Utah wrote: »

I already eat plenty of the foods you listed, but I thought about taking a protein supplement to stop hairloss.

The only thing I'm unsure of is when people mention "nuts" as part of a diet in the fitness forum, are they referring to the KP Dry Roasted Peanuts that you can get in Tesco?

You can get the Almonds in H&B. As 500g bag will cost you €6-7

g'em

Johnny Utah wrote: »

The only thing I'm unsure of is when people mention "nuts" as part of a diet in the fitness forum, are they referring to the KP Dry Roasted Peanuts that you can get in Tesco?

Unsalted, unroasted nuts - you can buy bags of them in any decent supermarket. Walnuts, almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, brazil nuts... Also nut butters like peanut butter, hazelnut butter and cashew butter, but check that there's at least 97% nut content.

yop

How much is a tub of that BSN's Syntha 6 ?? What size tub were you getting and where?

Thanks

rubadub

g'em wrote: »

Unsalted, unroasted nuts - you can buy bags of them in any decent supermarket. Walnuts, almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, brazil nuts...

Check out various places in the supermarket too. My tescos has nuts in around 6 places. The baking section usually has them raw & unsalted, and cheaper too.

I have my unflavoured protein with whole milk and strawberry nesquik, liquidised up with ice, comes out nice & frothy & freezing, just like a fast food place.

Deity

yop wrote: »

How much is a tub of that BSN's Syntha 6 ?? What size tub were you getting and where?

Thanks

I prefere Optimum [choc mint] but yeaterday I decided to live a little and grabbed me a cookies 'n cream shake syntha6 .. tastes too good to be true, meaning it probably is..

Pro-Nutrition

yop wrote: »

How much is a tub of that BSN's Syntha 6 ?? What size tub were you getting and where?

Thanks

€39.99 its a 3lb tub with 30 servings

Pro-Nutrition

Deity wrote: »

I prefere Optimum [choc mint] but yeaterday I decided to live a little and grabbed me a cookies 'n cream shake syntha6 .. tastes too good to be true, meaning it probably is..

The cookies & cream is amazing you will love it. I have to say that after the cookies & cream I like the strawberry

Esse85

Pro-Nutrition wrote: »

€39.99 its a 3lb tub with 30 servings

Its here too for €26.99

http://www.discountsupplements.ie/product/1053

Johnny Utah

g'em wrote: »

Unsalted, unroasted nuts - you can buy bags of them in any decent supermarket. Walnuts, almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, brazil nuts... Also nut butters like peanut butter, hazelnut butter and cashew butter, but check that there's at least 97% nut content.

I found the peanut butter with over 97%, thanks.

I've just one more question about unsalted/unroasted nuts. I noticed that all of them I look at (dry roasted/salted/unsalted/unroasted, etc) all seem to contain around 600 cals per 100g. Surely, if the unsalted nuts are healthier, then they should contain less calories- or am I missing something?

So, what is the difference between the plain unsalted nuts, and the salted type you get from KP. I'm guessing that it's just too much salt in the latter. Am I right?


Also, on the packets of KP salted/roasted peanuts, it said 'source of protein/fibre', which gives the impression that it is a healthy food.



Sorry for labouring the point, but I am genuinely curious as to know the difference.

Hanley

Johnny Utah wrote: »

I found the peanut butter with over 97%, thanks.

I've just one more question about unsalted/unroasted nuts. I noticed that all of them I look at (dry roasted/salted/unsalted/unroasted, etc) all seem to contain around 600 cals per 100g. Surely, if the unsalted nuts are healthier, then they should contain less calories- or am I missing something?

So, what is the difference between the plain unsalted nuts, and the salted type you get from KP. I'm guessing that it's just too much salt in the latter. Am I right?


Also, on the packets of KP salted/roasted peanuts, it said 'source of protein/fibre', which gives the impression that it is a healthy food.



Sorry for labouring the point, but I am genuinely curious as to know the difference.

You're spot on, it's the salt content. Sodium's notorious for the problems it causes with the oul ticker.

rubadub

Johnny Utah wrote: »

all seem to contain around 600 cals per 100g. Surely, if the unsalted nuts are healthier, then they should contain less calories- or am I missing something?

You have fallen for the marketing mens crap! high calories does not equate bad. If you listen to ads etc you could well think calories are a measure of "badness", calories are simply a measure of energy. And calories are not calculated using humans, they burn a substance in a lab and see how much it heats a volume of water. Burning 1kg of nuts will heat ~5 times as much water to boiling point as say 1kg of chicken. The nuts contain more energy. Then people use this fact as an estimate as to how your body will process this food to give you energy. Then if you take in more energy than you expend you can store it as fat.

Salt has little or no calories, i.e. very little energy, and there is a very low % of salt in the nuts. Also the packets list ALL the salt in that packet. I just lifted a empty bag of cashews there and a load of salt fell out, i.e. I did not ingest all the salt in the pack.

People go for low calorie foods since they still like to eat big amounts, I could easily eat 1000kcal worth of nuts, but 1000kcal of chicken is a large amount. Nuts are high in healthy fats, and fat is calorie dense. Thats why people will use vegetable oil to run a car on.

Johnny Utah wrote: »

Also, on the packets of KP salted/roasted peanuts, it said 'source of protein/fibre', which gives the impression that it is a healthy food.

Well they will not give the impression they are bad, you have to learn all the scams they come up with. Heating nuts also alters them, so some would go for raw. I simply do not like raw nuts so eat roasted ones, I do rub them in my hands to remove some salt, and sort of shake and tap the bag to make it settle out at the bottom. I also drink a fair bit of water if I am eating a lot of salty food, this offsets the salts effect to some degree.

buzz

Michael Cravez wrote: »

+ 1. The powder (depending on the flavour) is much nicer, especially chocolate!

BSN's syntha-6 is probably the best tasting brand iv came across though. Pretty much all the flavours in both water and milk are teh sex. I always recommend it if people do find it hard chugging down other protein powders

Couldnt agree more. The strawberry and vanilla are amazing.. They also contain carbs and fat per serving. Ive been using it for 6 weeks now and loving it.

kevpants

rubadub wrote: »

You have fallen for the marketing mens crap! high calories does not equate bad. If you listen to ads etc you could well think calories are a measure of "badness", calories are simply a measure of energy. And calories are not calculated using humans, they burn a substance in a lab and see how much it heats a volume of water. Burning 1kg of nuts will heat ~5 times as much water to boiling point as say 1kg of chicken. The nuts contain more energy. Then people use this fact as an estimate as to how your body will process this food to give you energy. Then if you take in more energy than you expend you can store it as fat.

Salt has little or no calories, i.e. very little energy, and there is a very low % of salt in the nuts. Also the packets list ALL the salt in that packet. I just lifted a empty bag of cashews there and a load of salt fell out, i.e. I did not ingest all the salt in the pack.

People go for low calorie foods since they still like to eat big amounts, I could easily eat 1000kcal worth of nuts, but 1000kcal of chicken is a large amount. Nuts are high in healthy fats, and fat is calorie dense. Thats why people will use vegetable oil to run a car on.



Well they will not give the impression they are bad, you have to learn all the scams they come up with. Heating nuts also alters them, so some would go for raw. I simply do not like raw nuts so eat roasted ones, I do rub them in my hands to remove some salt, and sort of shake and tap the bag to make it settle out at the bottom. I also drink a fair bit of water if I am eating a lot of salty food, this offsets the salts effect to some degree.

Is it just me or have all your posts lately been hyper intelligent explanatory shít and shít. It's like I'm reading a thread and then there's a post from you and it's just "Awwwwww man now he's gonna start using fractions and stuff and I thought I got it up to now...." I actually woke up in a pool of my own saliva following what was presumably a seizure after reading the % bodyfat thread.

Have you been deadlifting with your brain because you seem to have added some serious mass!!??

Johnny Utah

rubadub wrote: »

You have fallen for the marketing mens crap! high calories does not equate bad. If you listen to ads etc you could well think calories are a measure of "badness", calories are simply a measure of energy. And calories are not calculated using humans, they burn a substance in a lab and see how much it heats a volume of water. Burning 1kg of nuts will heat ~5 times as much water to boiling point as say 1kg of chicken. The nuts contain more energy. Then people use this fact as an estimate as to how your body will process this food to give you energy. Then if you take in more energy than you expend you can store it as fat.

Salt has little or no calories, i.e. very little energy, and there is a very low % of salt in the nuts. Also the packets list ALL the salt in that packet. I just lifted a empty bag of cashews there and a load of salt fell out, i.e. I did not ingest all the salt in the pack.

People go for low calorie foods since they still like to eat big amounts, I could easily eat 1000kcal worth of nuts, but 1000kcal of chicken is a large amount. Nuts are high in healthy fats, and fat is calorie dense. Thats why people will use vegetable oil to run a car on.



Well they will not give the impression they are bad, you have to learn all the scams they come up with. Heating nuts also alters them, so some would go for raw. I simply do not like raw nuts so eat roasted ones, I do rub them in my hands to remove some salt, and sort of shake and tap the bag to make it settle out at the bottom. I also drink a fair bit of water if I am eating a lot of salty food, this offsets the salts effect to some degree.

Thank you, that's a very good explanation. I also like the dry roasted peanuts myself.

And you're right about the marketing scams they come up with. I looked at the KP pack again, and in small writing on the back it says "a snack part of a healthy diet", which is fine because I don't have huge amounts of them. If I buy a 300g bag, I'd usually have small amounts over a few days.

rubadub

kevpants wrote: »

"Awwwwww man now he's gonna start using fractions and stuff and I thought I got it up to now...."

yeah I have a bad habit of calculating everything, I have been reading food labels since I was around 10. You got off lightly BTW;), I was going to go on about calories not all being equal, with respect to humans, as they are determined with engineering purposes in mind. So 500kcal of coke might get you fatter than 500kcal of vodka.

Johnny Utah wrote: »

If I buy a 300g bag, I'd usually have small amounts over a few days.

If I get big bags they just vanish overnight.

lg123

Beanmachine wrote: »

BSN's Syntha 6 is the nicest protein shake on the market it is unreal all flavours are lovely

ditto on that, tastiest by far ime

g'em

rubadub wrote: »

So 500kcal of coke might get you fatter than 500kcal of vodka.

You have me intrigued, do continue please.