
Optimum Nutrition
Gold Standard 100% Whey Protein Powder
Trusted all-rounder, but price hikes and quality decline concern.

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I tolerate MyProtein Impact Whey reasonably well and it tastes kinda awesome to me. I like Cookies and Cream, Cinnamon Danish, White Chocolate, Vanilla in this order. Chocolate Smooth is kinda bland but it’s good. A bit too harmless and uninteresting to my taste buds but it can be useful for cooking (protein cupcakes and such). Though they contain sweeteners and other processed ingredients, they are one of the few protein powders that don’t sucker punch me with that synthetic sweetness like a lot of products (sugary or sweetened) do. I also like the “play dough” texture that their powders have. I actually like putting two cups of that stuff in one greek yogurt because it becomes kinda like cookie dough. I also like BioTech USA’s isolate (isolate is lower lactose if you’re intolerant or sensitive - I’m not, or not significantly enough). I’ve enjoyed Pistachio, Hazelnut, Coconut, Chocolate in this order. The flavor with BioTech USA is a little more synthetic and overtly sweet but close enough, I guess. The texture is also a bit too fine and powdery for my liking but whatever. — Unflavored whey is also a thing if you wanna stay as natural as possible. There are brands out there that go the extra mile for super ethically and clean-sourced milk but I haven’t gone so far down the rabbit hole as of now. — Following along for other people’s recommendations. 👀 I’m always down to try a new protein powder if it’s good. I wanna try Ghost next, I’ll order some soon.
Myprotein whey isolate or Myprotein impact whey are great. If you mix with equal parts water you can use it as a sauce on a bowl of yoghurt with fruit on (skyr or Greek yoghurt) and you can get a very high amount of protein for little calories. Best way I’ve found
I honestly can't remember why I first tried them, but I've used others (Applied Nutrition, My protein, others) and the stuff I've had from Bulk doesn't seem any worse, and I get it cheaper. The ingredients are all solid
Currently The Myprotein impact way is just under £36, working out at £14.40 / kilo. That's reasonable price for their stuff since the prices rocketed. (I also feel the quality had gone down at the same time prices have risen). For a good while Home Bargains were doing 1kg bags of PHD Diet Whey for £14, I think it increased to £18. Reasonable value for good quality protein though less protein per serving then Impact Whey. Haven't seen it in a few months so I've been buying from Costco.
The £36 is the current price in Costco.
Impact is too bad bro, protein % is too less in per serving too much lactose
I ran through about 20kg of myprotein impact whey , they do clump up occasionally but nothing too severe. Though now the pricing q bad so probably considering buying ON again
Myprotein handsdown, just buy during cyber Monday for best pricing which I've observed over the years. IIRC can buy approx 12.5kg of normal impact whey before hitting the $400 gst threshold, then store it and use it across 1-2 years. Flavors that I've tried in bulk are matcha latte (recent reformulations made it blander), strawberry cream (GOAT). Also strongly recommend salted caramel. Can't remember which vanilla flavor I tried but q decent.
Anyway 20-24p per scoop is normal across all brands assuming relatively similiar scoop sizes. If not enough just use more scoops. For whey protein MP is pretty much as legit as it gets with cost savings from it's economies of scale. Not sponsored by MP, just been through a lot of MP whey protein 5kg bags.
The cheapest I know is myprotein if you're willing to stomach a higher upfront cost and risk having a huge 5kg 200 servings bag of a flavor you don't like. And now they already raised their minimum amount for free delivery to be $130 instead of $100 iirc. Usually their >80% discount days are decent and even better if you can get upsized shopback cashback on sales day like 8.8 etc. If you decide to go with myprotein the flavors I can recommend and went through >10kg of them YTD is strawberry cream, green tea matcha, also salted caramel is good but I discovered it only recently. Vanilla is decent. There's no good local alternative that can win myprotein in terms of economies of scale. I've stopped eating protein powder for months since I'm too lazy to wash my shaker every workout. I rather just stuff myself with more meat, tastes even better when CDC/sg60 vouchers are used. For chicken breasts if you dm preparing yourself, the 1kg $8? Sadia individually frozen breasts are great. If you are on a further budget, there's 2kg breasts, but I find them a hassle as you're forced to defrost an entire pack. If you're lazy, new multi precooked processed chicken breasts though pricey at $15/kg, are the fastest option only needing a microwave.

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