Protein Powder

[Marcus]

I got my protein sack yesterday & tried it last night. it mixes easily & tastes like nothing really. Only a slight after taste for a few seconds.

I was imagining it would be a lot worse. Good stuff though.

[2guns]

wher do u guys get this?

how much?

[The Legend Killer]

I bought some flavourless whey protein powder off this guy from Hamilton, it's 78% protein and he sells it 5 kg for $100.

[Marcus]

2guns - Look on the first page of this thread. Davis Trading is where I bought mine from.

[evo5]

Just remember there are varing degrees of whey concentrate and at the costs you quote the degrees are bad, as the a good whey costs around 30% more per kilo at manufacture cost from fonterra, so the whey they use has to be of a poorer grade,which means less digestability, just a tip!

hey

hrdcor: didnt really understand what you were trying to say about Fonterra, but this stuff from Davis Trading is actually sourced from Fonterra as it says "Fronterra WPC" on the sack.

dont know if this is true or not but my mate who alerted me to this source about a year ago, said that this bulk whey from Fonterra (that Davis Trading resells) is actually the WPC that NZ manufactures such as Horleys use as their base ingrediants, which they then flavour and add other ingrediants to. Again this is just what i heard and dont know if it is in fact true.

as for quality: i ordered my 20kg sack last year in August (lasted me a good while, till about April/May 06, it mixes reall well just like other commercial WPC's and you get used to the taste pretty fast, it also digested fine.

Im not a whey protein guru or anything, but going on results alone (was following the same diet, supplements, amount of rest etc) i found that this bulk whey was not nearly as good as some of the commercial why i am on now or had tried in the past (e.g EAS, ON Nutrition, Dymatize). There wasnt a HUGE gap, but just the small things like muscle soreness and lifting stats were probably not as good as when i was using a commercial WPC.

My guess is that most of the commercial WPC i use (especially ON Nutrition) has added BCAA's, whey Isolate and soy protein therefore giving some extra benefit over the bulk whey.

Still, i think this Bulk whey is great value for money and you shouldn't really notice a significant difference. But if you do have enough extra cash and are willing to part with it, maybe a commercial whey or WPI from a REPUTABLE brand would MAY be a better choice.

cheers