Protein Powder Taste Test

Diet and Nutrition
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Hey dudes. Pretty self explantory. Review all the protein powders you’ve tried based purely on taste.

Biotest
Metabolic Drive Vanilla 5/5
Metabolic Drive Chocolate 3/5
Metabolic Drive Strawberry 2/5
Metabolic Drive Banana 2/5

Optimum Nutrition
Cookies n Creme 3/5
Rocky Road 1/5
Double Rich Chocolate 3/5
Chocolate Casein 2/5
Fruit Punch 1/5
Strawberry Banana 1/5

Syntrax
Matrix 5.0 Chocolate 2/5
Chocolate Truffle 4.5/5

MHP
Banana Cream Probolic-SR 1/5
Cookies n Creme Probolic-SR 1/5

  • Both of these are absolutely horrible.

Dymatize
Butter Cream Toffee 1/5
Chocolate Mint 4/5
Rich Chocolate 3/5
12 Hour Chocolate 1/5

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I’ll add mine

EAS 100% Whey
Strawberry 2/5
Banana 1/5
Chocolate 3/5

ON 100% Whey
Double Rich Chocolate 4/5
Banana Cream 2/5
Pumpkin Pie 4/5
Vanilla Chai Latte 5/5

ON 100% Micellar Casein (judged on a pure-casein scale - a pure micellar casein is NOT going to taste or mix as well as a casein/whey blend)

Chocolate 3/5
Vanilla 2/5
Banana 4/5

ON Pro Complex
Strawberry 3/5
Rocky Road 1/5

Those are all the proteins I’ve been using in the past year or so. I’ve used many others when I used to work out in high school, but I’d have to dig deep into the memory banks to recall how they tasted. I know MetRX tasted like pure aspartame, and Myoplex was like drinking cake batter. I used to like Prolab’s whey products though.

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ON

Casein:
Chocolate 3/5
Vanilla 1/5

Whey:
Strawberry: 2/5
Chocolate: 4/5
Gingerbread: 4/5
Egg nog: 5/5
Vanilla: 1/5

Pro Complex Chocolate 4/5

VPX
Zero Impact Chocolate 5/5
Zero Impact Vanilla 5/5
Zero Impact Graham Cracker 5/5
Zero Carb Graham Cracher 5/5

Cytosport
Muscle Milk Chocolate 4/5
Muscle Milk Chocolate Malt 5/5
*too bad the nutrient profile sucks ass

MHP Probolic
Cookies and Creme 3/5

Labrada Lean Body RTD: 5/5

Prolab Lean mass complex cinn oatmeal: 5/5

Syntrax Nectar
crystal sky: 4/5

Met-Rx protein plus: god awful does not deserve a rating

finally i decided to get the custom shit. those are awesome. i would like to try Biotest in the future.

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MRI
Pro Nos Banana 4/5
Pro Nos Chocolate 4/5

Six Star Muscle

Whey 5/5

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[quote]TrentonJohn01 wrote:
MRI
Pro Nos Banana 4/5
Pro Nos Chocolate 4/5

Six Star Muscle

Whey 5/5[/quote]

these proteins suck

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Are you saying they taste bad or they have poor blends of proteins and ingredients?

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I saw people put ON protein but not ON 100%whey vanilla ice cream. I give that one a 5, it’s what i mix in my smoothies.

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[quote]TrentonJohn01 wrote:
Are you saying they taste bad or they have poor blends of proteins and ingredients?[/quote]

yes, pro nos has a lot of fillers and extra crap you don’t need while six star is mainly whey concentrate, hello bloating.

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The worst tasting protein I have ever tasted is ON Casein. It was several times worse than the stuff I had almost 20 years ago. I almost gagged when I tried it and this is from someone who thinks straight hydrolyze whey isn’t that bad.

bpeck

Edit: forgot to mention it was the chocolate flavor

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At Large Nutrition proteins are excellent. Great taste, high quality – great stuff.

Chris “Ox” Mason is one of the founders, for what that’s worth.

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[quote]bpeck wrote:
The worst tasting protein I have ever tasted is ON Casein. It was several times worse than the stuff I had almost 20 years ago. I almost gagged when I tried it and this is from someone who thinks straight hydrolyze whey isn’t that bad.

bpeck

Edit: forgot to mention it was the chocolate flavor[/quote]

Any 100% micellar casein is going to taste like that. There’s a reason why 99% of the “casein proteins” on the market are casein/whey blends :wink:

I rarely drink casein straight now - since the V-Diet I have taken to mixing it with whey in a 50/50 ratio. Mixes great, tastes fine, and you can’t beat the profile!

ON came out with a new flavour of casein - cookies and cream. I am going to try that this summer, along with their cookies and cream whey. I’ll let you all know how I think each tastes - whey, casein, and the blend.

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EAS
Vanilla - 4/5
Chocolate - 2.5/5
Advantage Edge Chocolate 1/5

Gold Standard
Vanilla 4/5
Chocolate 3/5

Allmax
Vanilla 4.5/5

Dymatize
Vanilla Casein 4/5

IDS
Vanilla Isolate 5/5

MuscleMilk Chocolate 6/5

Syntha 6 Vanilla 3.5/5
Syntha 6 Cookies & Cream 4.5/5

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I’m one of those people who’s willing to try a variety of brands and flavors.

Biotest
Metabolic Drive Chocolate 5/5

EAS
Myoplex Chocolate 3/5
Myoplex Strawberry 3/5

Dymatize
Elite Whey Chocolate 1/5

BSN
Lean Dessert Banana Nut Bread 4/5
Lean Dessert Chocolate Coconut 4/5
Lean Dessert Cinnamon Roll 3/5
Syntha 6 Vanilla 5/5
Syntha 6 Mochachino 4/5

ON
100% Whey Double Chocolate 5/5
100% Whey French vanilla 4/5
100% Whey Chocolate mint 3/5
100% Whey Strawberry 3/5
100% Whey Cookies N Crème 4/5
100% Whey Banana 3/5
100% Whey Gingerbread 4/5
Pro-Complex Rocky Road 4/5
Pro-Complex Chocolate 5/5
Pro-Complex Caramel Nut 4/5
Pro-Complex Gainer Chocolate 5/5
Pro-Complex Gainer Strawberry 4/5
Pro-Complex Gainer Vanilla 4/5

MHP
Up your Mass Chocolate 4/5
Up your Mass Vanilla 4/5

Cytosport
Musclemilk Chocolate 3/5
Musclemilk Chocolate Peanut Butter 3/5
EvoPro Tropical Blitz 3/5

MetRX
Ultramyosyn Chocolate 3/5
Ultramyosyn Cookies N Crème 2/5

Next
Designer Whey Chocolate 3/5

PVL
Whey Gourmet Strawberry Banana 5/5
Whey Gourmet Blueberry 5/5

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[quote]cpcloud wrote:
TrentonJohn01 wrote:
Are you saying they taste bad or they have poor blends of proteins and ingredients?

yes, pro nos has a lot of fillers and extra crap you don’t need while six star is mainly whey concentrate, hello bloating.[/quote]

My rating was on taste, not quality

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Wow ON Casein is getting a bad rap here, I actually think its pretty good. I’ve had both the chocolate and vanilla and like them both. Its also not 100% micellar, its both micellar and caseinate. Its a great deal though, $35 for 58 servings, each serving 24g protein.

And Chris “Ox” Mason is on the Mens Health boards alot, promoting AtLarge Nutrition. Alot of people swear by Nitrean.

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The only thing that tastes better than Metabolic Drive is Muscle Milk, but it ought to with all the extra shit in it.

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LTN -
ISO-PRO XS chocolate 2/5
ISO-PRO XS vanilla 1/5

Revolution Nutrition -
HIGH WHEY chocolate 4/5
HIGH WHEY vanilla 1/5
HIGH WHEY strawberry&banana 0/5 (don’t buy this shit unless you absolutely want to puke your meals #1 through 5)

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have you guys tried kemistry’s procore? its a bit expensive but definetly worth it. especially if youre lactose-intolerant

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Remembered a couple more…

Max Muscle Cookie Dough 3/5
ON Pro Complex Vanilla 2/5

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Note:Reference to mixing means without a blender…

Dave Drapers Bomber Blend:Tastes like cake, mixes perfectly, even smells good, the BMW of proteins (listen to your wallet scream in agony)…

German American “Muscletein”:Taste like faux Ovaltine…A bit gritty as powder…Fairly good stuff but again,listen to your wallet scream in agony…

Beverly: Rich taste, mixes well(and;listen to your wallet scream in agony)…

Biotest Metabolic Drive: Not as tasty as Beverly, but top class equivalent stuff & mixes well. The Strawberry gives a needed break from the usual Vanilla/Choco monotony and worth it for that alone…(and listen to your $$$ fly away…)

Ergopharm: Good variety of flavors, decent but with a “chemical” aftertaste (the “Bovine Plasma” perhaps?), mixes lousy, always chunks up. (Patrick Arnold should be able to do better)…(and again with the screaming…)

Max Muscle:Gets the job done, the “Tar-jay” of proteins, but you’d better like the flavor of cocoanut…mediocre mixing…

ON 100%Casien:Vanilla, The “Bipolar” protein: Tastes good and bad at the same time. Good shit if you can handle the nasty “chemical” aftertaste…

OK, enough already…PS: All taste better with a scoop of Superfood added!!!

As you can tell, I’m a bit of a “protien snob” spending Ferrarri upscale on a trailer park budget, but I reckon it you cant drink it, you wont use it, so it’s better in the long run to spend the $$$…I’m such a slut (Batting eyelashes provocatively, like Daffy Duck!)…/;-D