Protein powders are flawed. You can’t buy a sincerely healthy one in Australia. By sincerely healthy, I mean one that is made out of foods you actually eat. I can’t read the back of a label without having to google at least one of the ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I’m not even examining\u00a0the whey and casein options on the market. I put a line through those because\u00a0I don’t drink the bi-product of another species breast milk. You’re absolutely out to lunch if you think that your body is biologically designed to recognise that as food. The fact that\u00a065% of the global population\u00a0find it difficult to digest lactose should tell you something! And yeah, whey might not contain as much lactose as other forms of dairy but you’re talking about eating something\u00a0that is created by\u00a0spray drying\u00a0the leftovers of cheese making. Do me a favour!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, when else are we served whey and casein? Again, not traditional foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the dairy rant, there’s a lot to critcise about plant based powders too. Suspect sweeteners, flavours and stabilisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s a list of ingredients I’ve spotted in the best selling plant-based protein powders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You have to understand that a protein powder company has several goals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Very few companies compromise on any of these market demands. And why would they? Customers set the market. Chocolate whey outsells unflavoured hemp seeds because the majority of the market just want something that tastes great and has lots of protein. Crossfit Chris wants guns and a chocolate milkshake, he’s not interested in the potential long term consequences of these synthetic ingredients create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fair point Chris. There isn’t much out there. You can get\u00a0one ingredient hemp protein powders\u00a0in the States that have all the\u00a0essential amino acids.\u00a0But they’re almost entirely banned for human consumption in Australia. And the market here isn’t mature enough to not accept “natural flavours” and “vanillan” as ingredients. What’s wrong with vanilla? The make\u00a0organic vanilla bean powder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m sick of the synthetic stuff. I’ve got about 5 varieties of the best selling plant-based protein powders in my cupboard but I can’t see myself ever using them again. Not now that I’ve made my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My original recipe, below, combines my favourite seeds. And I add cinnamon and sea salt. All of the seeds are seriously dense so one serving (two heaped tablespoons) is roughly 10g of protein. You can just add more if you’re a protein fiend. Importantly, what seperates these ingredients from any other protein source on the market is the nutrients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This recipe will give you half your day’s needs in magnesium, fibre, zinc, iron, copper, manganese, potassium and\u00a0B vitamins. Not to mention that\u00a0cinnamon\u00a0is one of the best antioxidant sources on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unquestionably, homemade recipes are better than ANYTHING you’ll find on the Australian market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, firstly, that’s the point. They use high concentrated proteins and synthetic sweeteners. Homemade recipe are never going to be quite as protein dense or as sweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Me too. You can use vanilla bean powder and stevia. You could use coconut sugar. You can even buy maple syrup powder and honey powder. The latter two are great. But like vanilla bean, they’re not cheap. Which is why you’re protein powder company doesn’t use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m about to give you a bunch more homemade protein powder ideas. You can add stevia, maple powder, honey powder or coconut sugar to pimp them. I chose to just add a sweetener when I use the powder. So if I’m making a smoothie I just add a splash of maple syrup to the mix. If I’m making homemade protein bars I’ll just add dates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Same method as above, just different nutrients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Protein powders are flawed. You can’t buy a sincerely healthy one in Australia. By sincerely healthy, I mean one that is made out of foods you actually eat. I can’t read the back of a label without having to google at least one of the ingredients. And I’m not even examining\u00a0the whey and casein options […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpress.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpress.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpress.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpress.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpress.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenpress.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/greenpress.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenpress.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpress.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenpress.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}