expired Posted by billy_m • May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025 4:17 PM
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expired Posted by billy_m • May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025 4:17 PM
10-lb NOW Sports Whey Isolate Protein Powder (Creamy Chocolate)
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Ended up with a slick deal of $57.99 for 10lbs of Creamy Chocolate, we'll see if it ships.
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Ended up with a slick deal of $57.99 for 10lbs of Creamy Chocolate, we'll see if it ships.
With the $21 off coupon and the 5% Subscribe & Save discount, I was able to get it down to $113 before tax. (Was showing $141 before today.)
Has something like 13 ingredients in addition to the whey & concentrate, including sucralose. The NOW unflavored has just ONE ingredient in addition to the isolate: sunflower lecithin.
Am happy to pay a little more for the NOW unflavored.
It's fluffy and clumps up a little bit instead of pouring like sand, which means it's not completely denatured or hydrolyzed. The unflavored just tastes like really weak skim milk, which is what it should taste like. (This is why most brands don't offer unflavored: it would taste terrible, because their whey is much more heavily processed, or even adulterated.)
I prefer unflavored because it's cleanest and I don't mind the taste, but NOW's chocolate has fewer chemical flavorings than most. This is why people complain that it isn't chocolatey enough. (Xylitol is a sugar alcohol and much less offensive than sucralose or ace-K.)
"Has a worse protein to serving size ratio then ON gold. How they can call this "isolate" is beyond me."
There's a mistake on the NOW chocolate label. According to the unflavored, 25g of protein comes with <1g of carb and 0.5g fat, which is very close to pure. The mistake seems to be that the unflavored claims that 1/3 cup = 28g of isolate. But the chocolate claims that 1/3 cup is 33g! Fat is the same and the 2g of carb in the chocolate comes from cocoa powder and xylitol, not the isolate itself. So the math doesn't add up for the chocolate.
With the $21 off coupon and the 5% Subscribe & Save discount, I was able to get it down to $113 before tax. (Was showing $141 before today.)
I was getting 10% of S&S. Maybe because I have multiple subscribtipions
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To all the "oh but it doesn't taste yummy" complainers out there, here's a simple suggestion: add a tablespoon of Nesquik powder to your whey if you insist on making it tickle your tastebuds! Or blend it with half a ripe banana or some other sweet fruit, or nibble on a single dried fig or dried date if you want something better than Nesquik.
Not rocket science, people!
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"It's just better". lol.
Compared to whey concentrate whey isolate does have a higher percentage of protein (and lower fat and carbs). But "it's just better" is ridiculous. Chicken breast has a better protein/fat ratio than chicken thighs. That doesn't make it "just better". I prefer the consistency and flavor of concentrate over isolate. Concentrate is also more cost effective.
The gap between whole foods and whey protein supplements is significantly larger than the gap between isolate and concentrate.
There could be some crushed bugs in there, I bet... But not made FROM crushed bugs. Unless we're talking about cricket flour?
Ended up with a slick deal of $57.99 for 10lbs of Creamy Chocolate, we'll see if it ships.
Mine doesn't show up….its 122 with subscribe and save. ….and no coupons.
Which one at Costco?
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