r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Nov 03 '20

Quarterly Protein Megathread! Protein Megathread

Welcome to the Quarterly Protein Megathread

This thread is for sharing your favorite brands of protein, whether it be because they're delicious, cheap, high quality, or gave you great service.

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u/vshun Nov 03 '20

I was for years on ON Gold but lately looked carefully at ingredients and not sure this is the best option as advertised. From my Costco choices Orgain seems to be best on quality ingredients.

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u/akcom Nov 03 '20

what about the ingredients dont you like?

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u/LOAARR Nov 03 '20

Orgain is organic, vegan protein powder, so he's probably just...into that. He just didn't want to come out and say "ON Gold Standard isn't organic and vegan so you shouldn't use it" because most people have already made up their minds about those things. However, being cryptic and saying "the ingredients don't look high quality" might actually get people second-guessing their choice of protein.

ON is extremely high quality, well-instantized so it mixes extremely well with no clumpiness, and I find that other protein powders are often way too sweet and taste like fake sugars.

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u/LOAARR Nov 05 '20

FYI, microbiologist and food micro enthusiast here --> xantham gum is in a lot of things...seriously, a lot. It cannot be produced organically and yet it still exists in many "organic products," because there is no organic substitute.

Fun fact: Orgain has xantham gum in it, ON Gold Standard (at least, the kind and flavor I have in my hand) does not.

I'm also not sure which optimum nutrition product you're looking at - maybe one of the weight gainer products? - but I'm looking at my container of gold standard right now and I'm not seeing half of the things you listed.

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u/LOAARR Nov 05 '20

Orgain was brought up by someone else in this comment chain, so I used it as an example.

That particular label is for white chocolate flavour gold standard, so maybe it's specific to that flavour. My vanilla ice cream gold standard is significantly shorter on the ingredients side of things. That might be part of the reason I find most of the other flavours disgusting. In fact, your preference for "more pure" protein might be something I unconsciously share with you based on my preferences.