I just started using BSN syntha6 as a post workout protien for recovery and It is the best tasting protien I have ever tried!
what flavor ?
I’ll stick to my ON, Im more interested in the nutritional label than the taste…
Bahahahaha, sorry this topic title cracked me up. Yeah I need to grow up. Muscle Mass is pretty money tasting.
My vote is Optimum Nutrition 100% Whey Vanilla Ice Cream
Sci-Fit Econowhey is pretty tasty, Strawberry Icecream actually tastes like a drink the fiancee would buy.
Eggs are tasty, plus they have nothing but L-amino acids which are the only ones your body can use.
Buyer be ware, the cheaper protein mixes (and probably some of the more expensive ones as well) are 50% D-amino acids and 50% L-amino acids which means if they say they have 50 grams of protein per serving you are only getting 25. Then, of course, you have the fact that your body can only absorb so much protein at a time…
I like Syntrax’s Nectar in Strawberry/Kiwi. I have also tried the same product in Fuzzy Navel, as that seemed to be rather popular online, but I wasn’t a fan of it.
It is a protein isolate, which I’ve read it somehow better than protein concentrate, for whatever reason.
Interesting.
I like Syntrax Matrix Chocolate and Creamy Strawberry flavors. The Chocolate I tend to overindulge in though…
I don’t care much for the creamy texture though.
I personally like beef. Raw shrimp is also tasty…
Watcha talkin about Willis?
Your body can only absorb so much of any nutrient at one time, protein or otherwise. Whatever your body needs as the food passes through your intestines is absorbed then. (Contrary to popular belief, nutrients aren’t absorbed in the stomach; the stomach just serves to break food down into a goo called chyme, to be absorbed, nutrient-wise, in the intestines.) Whatever isn’t needed during the time it takes the pass through (which is why the intestines are so long), you shit or piss out. The point being, nothing is absorbed instantly. Liquids are absorbed more quickly as they are already in a fairly digestible form (you can get drunk pretty fast), but it takes some time for anything to be taken in by your body.
If your metabolism is moving quickly and/or certain nutrients have been depleted (post workout, for example), it is a good time to take in protein. The first hour after exercise is called ‘the golden hour’ for that reason. Very pure whey protein (nothing is actually pure) is good for this, as it is the most quickly-processed form of protein. Casein, or milk protein takes much longer to process, as it tends to solidify slightly in the stomach, allowing a ‘time release’ of nutrients that allows more to be absorbed as the body needs them. (It’s more of a gel, really, but the physical form won’t allow it to go quickly into the intestines.)
Any time you see ‘time released’ on a jar o’ protein, it has casein protein. However, nothing you ever eat, from a steak to apples to a protein shake, is completely absorbed by the body. Much of it goes the way of the anus. All you can control is how well you chew your food (the start of the digestion process), making it easier for your body to absorb, and eating your food slowly. Eating your food slowly gives your stomach less to digest at one time, and ensures more nutrients will have been absorbed in the interim, allowing more to be needed, and thus more absorbed, with time. (In this case, drinking your protein shakes over the period of a half hour or so.) The type of protein selection is key as well, like I mentioned earlier.
ON tastes pretty good in general. I’m a BSN fanboy through and through, however. (Mochachino? Really? I drank hundreds of gallons of that shit the last time I was in Iraq.) That said, BSN may or may not have issues - they’ve been sued multiple times as a result of a few scientists claiming their ‘ethyl-ester’ creatines were scientifically impossible to produce. Nothing has come of it, but the point I’m making is that I don’t 1000% trust the claims of any nutrition supplement company, but BSN’s shit tastes so fucking good I don’t give care. (A far, far cry from the days when Nitro-Tech and Cell-Tech were the only options of any value out there.)
That said, all this talk of digestion reminded me I need to take a shit.
Stay safe.
I’m a firm believer in the food pyramid and eating a balanced diet. Are you building mass? Weider used to have a product called mega mass 2000 which tasted great (chocolate) and yielded great results. That said, I’m not a dietician or nutritionist, so I can’t suggest that you use it. Consider talking to a pro, if you already haven’t. Proper diet and exercise yields our body’s most natural results, imho.
I like ON mint chocolate, 5lbs for $44 on A1supplements. The extreme milk chocolate is good too. I’ve never really had any protein that tasted bad to me, but I don’t treat my shake like a gourmet meal so I suppose my taste standards aren’t the highest.
after taste has always been a bigger issue for me than flavor. most protein shakes i’ve had are drinkable, but always leave an after taste that stays with me for most of the day, even after brushing or eating something else
I supplement my protein post workout with Myofusion Chocolate. Low fat, high protein, low carbs and the taste is not too bad.
-Bryan
I had tried a lot of different post workout supplements before and I was super excited that I finally found one that I enjoyed drinking. It is like drinking a glass of strawberry milk. Also my recovery time is much faster with this stuff!
Always liked this product in Mochachino
http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/bsn/synth.html
and
http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/opt/whey.html
in Double Rich Chocolate
HTH…
Cite?
Animals can only make use of L-amino acids. Animal products are 100% L-amino acids, so if you get something 100% natural you are gtg. The problem is that when proteins are synthesized you get a 50/50 mixture of D and L amino acids, so you end up with 50% junk amino acids. Less scrupulous companies can sell you these useless amino acids as protein even if your body cannot make use of them.
As far as digestion goes realize that your body will not make use of a good deal of the protein it takes simply because your enzymes are only so efficient at breaking them down and your body can only absorb so much at a time. If you push too much through at a time you’ll end up crapping it out instead of pissing it out (urea content increases with an increased amount of digested proteins in the body).
You can find this info in Biochemistry and Physiology texts.