Rating the Most Popular Protein Powders (Some Were BAD)

[00:00] Whoa, Scott, it really smells like fruit loops. Cheers. You guys have replaced Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on Sega Genesis, the Chemical Plant Zone. This was bottled there. It's just the level in a blended form.

[00:14] Fruit loops were not harmed during the making of this protein. It'll get smells like fruit loops, but it tastes like you're dying. Two cans, Sam. I'm busy tonight. Hey guys, you voted for the best and worst protein shakes for me to try, and

[00:30] now I'm going to try them. Let's get into it.

[00:46] All right, number one is the optimum nutrition gold standard double rich chocolate. They named it after Mr. Nick Shaw, the CEO of RP Strength, because he's not rich.

[00:59] He's double rich. This is the protein we all grew up on. Scott, do you remember this protein taking you to school and helping you walk your dog? It would always waive to the mail man.

[01:11] America grows up on optimum nutrition protein, because it's awesome. It's got 120 calories in standard serving. We're just doing one scoop for all of these, by the way, 24 grams of protein, which is a lot. This is really good.

[01:24] Just one and a half grams of fat, which is very little, only three grams of carbs. This is extra, extra high quality way protein. Really what we're looking for is low fat content, low carb content, high protein content, and overall low calorie content.

[01:38] From the nutritional perspective, that's how we're measuring these proteins. Obviously, of course, if the way proteins that means are high quality already, and we're going to be doing for all these proteins is a protein to calorie ratio. How much protein are you getting per scoop for? How many calories?

[01:51] That's really our core index on the nutritional side of like which one of these is better on that side. But it says nothing about taste, texture, and all the artisanal things that I was trained at at the, Scott at the, the academy for artisanal protein,

[02:06] Somaliaing. I did years in that academy. I didn't see daylight for weeks. All I had was protein. Let's find out if my education actually married on anything. The protein to calorie ratio for this one is 0.2.

[02:19] And that sets a gold standard. Exactly. I as I remember it mixes incredibly well, incredibly amazing texture.

[02:31] It mixes super, super easily. And it isn't ultra overflavored or ultra sweet. Scott, isn't that nice every now and again, not to get a protein and try to punch you in the face with sugar? It's neutral. It's neutral ish.

[02:43] It's off sweet. And I really like that one way I like to consume this is if I need a way shake in the evening with some nuts or something like that. Because I need some proteins and fats, I like to actually have this in hot water.

[02:57] And then it's like an off sweet hot chocolate. If you throw in a couple marshmallows in there, it bounces out really awesomely. Then a gold standard is the gold standard for a reason. This is sweet.

[03:11] Our second contender is the rise, a skippy peanut butter protein. Whoa, cool. It's loaded protein with premium way protein with MCTs.

[03:23] Interesting. So the really should be getting a nice peanut buttery texture because the medium chain triglycerides in here are a nice healthy fat. But there is quite a little bit more fat in here than the traditional protein product and a little bit more carbohydrate.

[03:36] The protein to calorie ratio here is scoring it at a 0.17 substantially lower than our gold standard. So if you're getting a few more carbs and fats in here, which to me means

[03:48] the taste expectation has gone off. You guys know what I'm saying? If some shit is going to is going to be not as ideal protein nutrition for you, it had better taste good.

[04:00] Oh, Scott, this smells legit like skippy peanut butter like for real. Whoa. So here's the thing. When I'm dyed it down to the bone, peanut butter, super tasty. When I'm maintenance or mass mode, I hate peanut butter because it's just

[04:14] too much. This is, I love this package too. There's a lot of happy things going on. There's nuts and butter and not butter. Anyway, cheers.

[04:26] Wow. This tastes about as close as you can get to like water down sounds bad. Water down blended peanut butter in the best way possible. It's very sweet.

[04:38] It's very peanut buttery. It's incredibly thick and smooth. This is some high quality shit. You guys, if you like your way protein to be a little bit higher in calories, maybe for like an evening shake or a meal replacement and you love it to be really

[04:52] sweet and you are obsessed with peanut butter and all of its forms, rice really knocked this the way the hell out of the park. This is really good stuff. I'm not personally into super sweet things because I'm not eight years old, but I'm also not allowed to be around eight year olds for a variety of reasons.

[05:08] Rise, you're doing great work. Number three is the transparent labs blueberry pancakes protein isolate.

[05:20] So the really cool thing about this one is it's only using protein isolate, which is very high quality protein source. We can expect the macros on this to be phenomenal. And indeed, they are 28 grams of protein, two grams of carbs,

[05:33] just half a gram of fat for serving 28 protein. When that few carbs and fats is God tier territory transparent labs is doing something right, a protein to calorie ratio of 0.22. This is our highest protein to calorie ratio so far.

[05:46] So if you really on that macro game, if you really think to get that ab shit going and flex the ladies and have them say, um, that's cool. But like I'm not into like mothel guys, you want transparent labs. This is one of these aspirational type of flavor.

[06:00] Scott, you feel me where they're like not just blueberry, not just pancakes, but blueberry pancakes tough to get such a complex flavor in a powder. But you know what my favorite taste is with pancakes, Scott.

[06:20] It's the taste that reminds me of the fact that I'm sitting in a diner all alone on Saturday morning and just the weeks just keep getting tougher man. And I just don't even know what's going on anymore. Just cry into your pancakes using the sock up your tears.

[06:34] And the waitress calls you honey and sweetie a lot. You know, she doesn't mean it. Let's try this protein. Whoa, Scott, they're getting the smells right on these. This is the most blueberry shit I've ever smelled in my life.

[06:48] Cheers. Okay, you can't really drink blueberry pancakes. Can you? The negatives first, it's not blueberry pancakes.

[07:00] It tastes very sweet, very rich, which is crazy. It has no fat in it, very smooth. And maybe one of the most like blueberry things I've ever tasted.

[07:12] And so it is actually phenomenally tasty protein. It's like really tear one taste. It's just, I don't know if you're expecting blueberry pancakes. I just don't know what you're expecting.

[07:24] You're not going to get it from this protein, but what you're going to get is arguably a whole lot better than blended up blueberry pancakes. So this is one of these ones that's good all the time. It's good when you're dieting and it's good when you're mascaning because it's super easy to take.

[07:36] If you like it on the sweeter side and on the more flavorful side, but it's still not watery, it's very rich. This is it, man, I give it a 10 out of 10, it's sweet. And nutritionally, it just kills.

[07:51] Number four is the muscle sport lean way come at me canoli. Hey, hey, finally Scott, I get to do my Italian guy accent. Hey, you've got a problem with canoli.

[08:04] Listen, I've been the prison, I am a cano. I'm a chef, look at me. Scott, you see the guy in the car rear? Good kidding me. My grandmother invented way protein and my great grandma was a

[08:17] literal concau, don't call her a concau, neat. 130 K cows, 25 grams of protein solid, two grams of fat, a little bit on the higher end. These are pretty stringent criteria. Four grams of fat, a little on the higher end.

[08:29] So we got a point one nine on the protein, sorry, four or four carb on the protein to calorie scale. We get a point one nine, which is below the reference frame of gold standard. But pretty damn good, pretty damn good.

[08:42] And with 25 protein per serving, you're well on your way here. It supports fat burning. Uh oh, it's like caffeine in here, some shit. And then it's keto friendly. That makes sense. It has almost no carbs lean way fat metabolizing matrix.

[08:54] Got MCT powder. Okay, so for full transparency, there's almost no MCT powder because it's only two grams of fat and MCT's just burned themselves. They don't bring in an additional fat. That has to be something that's said. And then there's soluble corn fiber and L carnitine

[09:07] turnerate and CLA conjugated linoleic acid. That's interesting. You're getting a little bit of CLA. It's not enough to really do anything, but it's a nice thought. Cheers.

[09:19] They got little chocolate jiblets or some shit in here. I can taste those incredibly sweet, incredibly rich, incredibly smooth, incredibly sweet, even the aftertaste is good. This is an amazing tasting protein. We did not grow up like this.

[09:32] I forced spoonfuls of dry protein down my throat as I walked uphill in the snow in the summertime. And I wasn't even going to school. We didn't have school when I grew up. This is super tasty.

[09:44] I love it. I think I'm Italian now. All right. Our fifth protein of the day is the core nutritional's death by chocolate

[09:56] darling on the technical quals. It has 140 cows, 25 protein, three fat two carbs, which is quite a bit of fat and carb. And it's good to go in about a protein tube.

[10:08] Do they give us it a point when eight protein to calorie ratio, which is on the lower end of the proteins we've been trying so far. So that's how this works is it had better taste damn good. No fillers, full disclosure, way Casey and blend.

[10:22] Oh, that's right. The milk protein is Casey in it. So this is going to be less of a post workout thing and more of like a meal replacement protein, which is cool because then it has more fats and carbs. That's nice.

[10:34] Let's put this to the test. I'm I got to say before I get into this, I am a chocolate. I love chocolate, especially gelato and dark chocolate. Scott, does that mean I'm a white female?

[10:46] Absolutely. It sure does. Oh, I'm like, getting like high on this, I'm like totally a drug addict.

[10:59] Scott, I can just keep doing this all day, man. Can I get one more? Is it okay to get one more? It's paradise, you guys. I don't give a shit how this tastes, man.

[11:12] Corn nutritional as you guys did it, man. The smell alone is good enough for me. Let's try the taste. Oh, darling, amazing.

[11:27] And when you drink it, it's that actually way too sweet, but it's got tons of chocolate packed into the punch. My only critique is it could use more chocolate, but then again, I'm a maximalist and you would end up just having a piece of chocolate cake in there. If you want a meal replacement protein that you pair with like a handful of almonds, this

[11:44] is like kingship. And I got to tell you, I haven't tried this yet, but if you use hot water, to mix this hot water, some walnuts and a little, Scott, a little, a little mint leaf for accentuation on the plate.

[11:57] Perfect. I can't critique this at all. This is wonderful. Number six in our list of proteins is the ghost Oreo protein.

[12:11] So shout out to the ghost people for getting a collab with like a real major legit food company, Oreos are, you know, again, just put them into stuff. You got to get a lot of approval. They have legit Oreos in here. It is going to be 150 calories, 25 protein, two fat, seven carb, which is way on the

[12:28] higher end, giving us a protein calorie ratio of 0.17, very much on the low end. So this protein is going to have to just pack way above its weight in actual flavor and taste and texture.

[12:40] And the thing is I've had this before and I already know it's amazing. We'll say with all due respect, when you mix ghost protein, you want to put water in first, then protein, then water. Otherwise, you get a clump like that at the bottom and then you've just essentially

[12:52] annihilated your shaker because that's never coming up. It's good. The protein itself tastes very good. The best part of the Oreo ghost protein is that it actually has Oreo chunks. So this protein actually probably wouldn't drink.

[13:07] What I would do is if I was a sugar holic like all of you, I would get whatever breakfast cereal you like the most to have post workout for a little bit of milk in there. And then poor this Oreo protein in there, you're going to get tons of glycemic

[13:21] carbs, very low fats, tons of high quality protein in the Oreo chunks crush. So there's literal Oreo pieces in there, which is unbelievable. Obviously that hurts the macro side, but it helps the taste side.

[13:33] This is good. It's very good. I got to say though, I've never had any of the other proteins except for our first one on this list. And those are competitive, if not kind of punching above their weight, even above ghost,

[13:45] factoring in the macros of the best protein. So far that we've tried ghost is hanging in there, but by a thread, those are the proteins that we tried. Man, they were really, really good. And I was just really pleasantly surprised. So ghost is just a goal.

[13:58] Like it's just like, it's awesome. And everyone knows it's awesome. Mad respect to the ghost people. It's a great brand. The calories are pretty high and the taste is good. But some of those other proteins give it a run for its money, I'd say.

[14:14] All right, next up is the muscle farm banana milk, very cool. It has 130 calories, 24 grams of protein, two fat two carbs, which gives it a ratio of protein to calories of 0.19, which isn't at our gold standard.

[14:28] It's just below, but it's pretty damn good. And I typically absolutely detest banana flavored things, but it's tested for bad substances, which is really dope. I love the super green cap, Scott.

[14:40] Doesn't that just jump out at you? Pops. Yeah. Anything that's super green, I'm into. Oh, Scott, did I ever tell you how much I hate banana fake banana flavors? Fake banana flavors.

[14:52] The worst. What's wrong with you people buy in this stuff? Here we go. Texture is great. Sweetness is great. Does taste milky in the best way possible?

[15:04] It's got that full-bodied dairy feel. If you want a banana tasting protein, you're going to get it from this muscle farm. You guys are awesome.

[15:16] Raw dark chocolate, protein isolate, and it's grass fed, all the good stuff in this. It has 130 calories, 26 protein, one fat three carbs for protein to calorie

[15:28] ratio of 0.2, which is right at our gold standard. This is amazing stuff. It's informed sport, banned substance tested, which is great. If you're a drug-free athlete, you can have as much of that shit as you want. Dark chocolate, I typically fudge with hard.

[15:43] Yeah, I know what the problem is. It's good. In my opinion, it's not great. Why? Because it's naturally sweet. You guys, there is a logical fallacy for the shit called the naturalistic fallacy or the argument from nature.

[15:55] Assuming natural things are good and artificial things are bad. It is not a categorical rule. You can apply to food or pretty much anything else. So it's flavored with stevia. Yeah, it's all grass fed and natural shit like that. Tastes like it. It seems like the cow is eating grass with a little bit more sadness in it than usual.

[16:10] It's a good protein. I just, um, the naturally sweetened shit just hits the lips all wrong. And, you know, I've even repped for brands that were natural. I just tell people straight up, if you're into that white people type of shit, dope.

[16:23] It's great. And for this, I mean, they're a real white container, so dope. But, um, is it the best tasting protein we've tried? No. Granted that it's made with stevy. Is it very good? Yes, because stevy usually tastes like dogs.

[16:36] Not bad. Time for number nine protein for today. Six star fruit loops. Very cool.

[16:48] Where is two can Sam to let me know that everything's going to be okay? Um, just follow my nose and the corporate propaganda. I mean, I'm as pro corporate as I get.

[17:00] So I approve. I don't say 170 calories, a lot of calories, 30 grams of proteins, really good. But at two and a half grams of fat and eight grams of carbs, the protein to calorie ratio isn't our worst at point one eight, but it's on the low end.

[17:14] So this had better taste damn good. Let's go for the smell first. Two can Sam. Yeah, never let me down. Don't start now. Whoa, Scott, it really smells like fruit loops.

[17:28] Like legitimately like exactly like fruit loops. Cheers. You guys are replaced Sonic the hedgehog two on Sega Genesis, the chemical plant zone. Scott, you know what I'm talking about?

[17:41] This was bottled there. It's just the level in a blended form. There's absolutely nothing about this in my opinion that tastes like fruit loops. Fruit loops were not harmed during the making of this protein, or at all touched as far as I can tell.

[17:54] No fruit loops in here and I can sure a shit tell you that. Now, but smells exactly like fruit loops for the grand illusion, but in reality, it tastes like semi sweetened chemicals. Yay. I guess fruit loop truly is made of semi sweetened chemicals.

[18:07] Huskot, even the real cereal. Yeah. So the taste is accurate. I would say this does not come close to being a tasty protein. It smells nice, but for eight grams of carbs and two and a half grams of fat,

[18:21] a lot of other proteins on this list are doing good work to can Sam. I'm busy tonight.

[18:33] Our next protein comes from the nation of Japan. And so for cultural equity and inclusion purposes, I have summoned my Asian wife. Are you laughing at the Asian peoples generally or are you just racist?

[18:49] What part of Asian culture is funny to you, Guevara? I know you grew up in the Bay Area. And so you look down on Asian-born Asians, soup protein. Yeah.

[19:01] Crystal, I went to Japan on vacation and we found this and we couldn't put it down because holy shit, how often do you get a soup protein? If the ingredients list looks like this and now my wife will read it.

[19:16] You ready to try this stuff and let's do an analysis first. Yeah, yeah, so it's a soup protein. I think it's clam chowder flavor, which is an interesting flavor protein.

[19:30] I will say on the nutritional end, a very small serving size. And it's like half the serving of a regular protein. So basically scale to a normal serving. It would have 23 grams of protein, two grams of fat and almost nine grams of carbs,

[19:47] which is kind of a lot that gives it a protein to calorie ratio of point one, six, officially making it our least high protein to calorie ratio protein. It's cold. Isn't that how clam chowder is supposed to be eaten?

[20:01] Wait a minute. You're Asian and you're saying that? Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Something died in here, girl. Are we sure about this?

[20:17] It's actually not bad. I knew you were. It's actually not bad. It's like, it's like durian. Once you get past the smell, once you get past the smell, durian rots in your mouth and destroys your memories of childhood. This is nonsense.

[20:35] Soup. It's soup. It's literally soup. It's like a really good clam chowder soup. Yo, legit, like I could totally get some rice and some meat and pour this in. Yeah, like a concentrated version.

[20:48] It would up the protein and like give you some flavor. So it's Scott. This ended up being decent, bro. I'm actually surprised. Scott, is it possible that crystalline I could potentially kind of like maybe tie

[21:00] you up, throw on some satanic music and pour this all over your body? Or is that like too much? That's great. Let's do it. If you're not going anywhere, you're sticking around for our last protein, aren't you? Oh, boy. Because we have a story about this one. Folks, our last protein for the day number 11 is from the Aeroan store,

[21:22] which is a chain of stores, mostly in Southern California, that here's how the brand started. White people love to overpay for organic natural shit.

[21:34] So they can feel nice about themselves after colonizing and slaving the entire world. 210 calories. 20 grams of protein, 9 grams of fat and 11 carbs, giving us a protein to calorie score of 0.10

[21:49] way out of distribution as the absolute lowest nutritional value for protein per calorie of any of the proteins we're trying. Maybe any proteins I've ever heard of. Chris, do you ready to try this stuff? Let's do it. It looks green in there now.

[22:02] What kind of it's cacao flavored? Yes, cacao flavored. That's another test of rich elite whiteness. You don't eat chocolate. It's cacao. The cacao.

[22:16] Does it taste like nature? Oh, wow. Very earthy. Okay. Like, you can tell plants have been like ground up and like in there.

[22:28] Oh, God, that's awful. And I like certain vegan proteins because sometimes I do like that kind of grass. You like the lawnmower? No, the mouth feel is like sometimes I enjoy the mouth feel, but this taste

[22:43] plus the mouth feel is terrible. It's sour. Yes. Okay. It's got literal bits of can grass in it. It clogs your teeth. I have no idea where the cacao or chocolate is in there for 210 calories.

[22:57] I feel robbed. I want my money back. I want my money back to LDR. If you're into like actual nutrition and good taste and things that are healthy for you and have a ton of protein with very low calories. Do you want to get shape? All of the earlier proteins do this about infinity times better than this one.

[23:12] But if you want to be seen with the glizziest and most glamorous and Beverly Hills, go to Erwan and at least the chocolate chip cookies look good. If you have like a gazillion dollars.

[23:31] All right, folks, time for the ratings. My wife left me so I'm alone. This I do by myself. The ratings are kind of just kind of handway the integration of macros, protein to calorie ratio,

[23:47] taste, smell, texture, mouth feel, that whole thing and mostly just vibes. My number one ranking, very surprisingly to me is the transparent labs. Blueberry pancakes.

[24:00] The nutrition is outlandish. The amount of protein relative to calories is frightening. And it tastes like I don't even like blueberry you guys. I don't like blueberry pancakes and ever eat them.

[24:13] God made this and apparently sold it to transparent labs. I would just buy this right now if I were you. This is unbelievable. Core protein, death by chocolate is going to be the best death you've ever had.

[24:26] This protein tastes unbelievable all the way from smell to aftertaste. This is the chocolate thing I've ever had in my life. I want more of it. I'm actually keeping this after the shoot. No one's getting it. Scott's video guys not getting it. This is all going down the color. This is amazing.

[24:38] Rise. I don't even like peanut butter that much, but you guys blew this one completely out of the water. This is phenomenal. Yes, it has a few more calories and shell like that. But if you want peanut butter, this tastes more like peanut butter than peanut butter does.

[24:51] Unbelievable. Hey, you better break the tie or else phenomenal. Excellent all around. Again, I don't even like canola. I like it now. Ghost, you guys do great work.

[25:03] Your protein's awesome. I'll never have anything bad to say about it. Little clumpy, little high in calories. People come to spec that sort of thing. If you mix this with cereal or something like that, it turns into damn you're the best shit you've ever had in your life.

[25:15] The ghost is a little scary. Please change the logo or I'll never buy it again. You never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever mess with a classic. Surprisingly good. Do not put it into your workout yake.

[25:28] But if you want to add this to your actual soup, it'll boost the protein. As far as compared to real foods, the macros are dope. Japan has never missed a day in their lives. This is a really good protein. It honestly hits exactly what you want and the nutrition is just spot on.

[25:43] I love the branding. I love the green muscle farm is a great company. This is really, really good stuff. I hate banana with every ounce of my being that is the only reason it is ranked lower. Stop putting stevia into shit.

[25:56] Again, I've been associated will be associated with brands that put stevia in it, but it'd be just because white people need to feel good about themselves and have a load of naturalistic fallacy. Seriously.

[26:08] It like it smells like fruit loops, but it tastes like you're dying. Do you guys know why we don't have a whole container of this? We couldn't afford it. The shit costs like $90 per container. Just eat grass clippings. That's all I have to say about that.

[26:23] All right, folks, that was really fun. I love tasting the proteins. I have three takeaways from this. One, natural loving white people. You just got to really start reading more science and stop getting ripped off.

[26:36] It's getting sad. You're all super smart and educated. You can do better than this. Stop buying the stupid overpriced nonsense. No offense to any particular brand. Number two, if you're going to make a protein that claims to taste like something delicious, try.

[26:50] Number three, almost all the proteins on here are so good. Scott and I were talking off camera like we did not grow up with this kind of protein. Almost all the protein on this list is like the best protein I've ever had.

[27:03] So as far as powdered proteins go, like you guys are living in just an absolute utopia. The top five top six proteins on today's list are just all killers. They're amazing. And I'm legit going to keep a bunch of these cans and just snort these in my own free time.

[27:18] Anyway, if you guys want me to try some other weird protein foods or something, let us know in the comments. Otherwise, have a great day and go buy yourself some excellent way protein.