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Discounted for a reason. Bin worthy
Thanks mate!
It's junk.
Reviews say taste is crap.
Protein content is low.
I had the strawberry WPI and it was pretty good.
This sounds BAD, avoid.
Pro tip - if the protein powder is discounted, it's for a very good reason.
Anti-OzB sentiment but at least when it comes to health foods just get something you can eat day-in, day-out. It helps with diet adherence, and that's more important than saving $20 over say 6-12mo on crappy protein powder.
What's the Ozbargain opinion on whey protein being an Ultra-processed food, and research suggesting long term negative health impacts (cancer, cognitive decline, early death)?
'ultra processed' sounds like some meaningless buzzword that influencers invented to sell you liver support pills so you can fund their PED lifestyle.
Agreed, however, the definitions are normally given in the particular research paper.
Do you have the research that says it's bad? I'm interested in the read
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00017-2/fulltext
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00027-4/fulltext
There's just two articles - tip of the iceberg. However, mostly correlational and longitudinal research, rather than experimental studies on particular processing techniques, ingredients, etc.
"Ultraprocessed" definitely does sound like a meaningless buzzword that influencers invented to sell me liver support pills, however in the context of research, it's normally pretty well defined in each of the relevant studies.
Neither of these studies say protein powder leads to adverse long term health impacts. Do you have any that do and haven't been debunked yet?
AFAIK protein powder has been shown to be safe when used correctly. The only debate of any substance was it's impact on the kidneys. However, it has been shown that it is only a concern if you have a pre-existing condition. If you don't have those pre-existing conditions then taking a protein supplement won't cause you to develop them.
This just goes into foods that are processed.
It doesn't specifically call protein one of the items that may cause health decline, only that ultra processed foods do. You might be able to label protein powder as ultra processed food, but I would normally label it as a dietary supplement rather than food.
Sure, we never know what inside. But we neither do for the stuff we buy at the restaurant or at the supermarket.
Additionally, have a look which ingredients could cause cancer based on your daily body hygiene. That's really surprising.
But by end of the day, certain processes and regulations are controlling food. I would not worry that much about.
I don't agree with your reasoning, but I've arrived at the same conclusion: whey protein is too convenient and cheap, and too low-risk for me to worry much about it. I was just curious if other's had reached the same conclusion, or could offer any insight.
Do you have any links to any research studies to back up your claims specifically in regards to whey protein causing any of these issues?
Not my claims - was curious if the community had any insight specifically in regards to whey protein causing issues, as I don't.
Whey protein is heavily HEAVILY researched as being incredibly beneficial up along side creatine as the best supplements in the fitness industry in respect to their positive benefit and lack of side effects to your health. Sits on a similar pedestal to omega3
@GetFitWithCameron: Yeah I just looked it up myself;
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/obr.12005
(Positive effect on cardiometabolic risk factors)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1476-511X-11-67
(lessens several risk factors for metabolic diseases)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.2017.13…
(Improves Body Composition and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Overweight and Obese Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis)
The list of supporting evidence goes on and on. The only negative coverage I could see is insulin spiking with WPI (attenuated however with casein, lipids) and risk of heavy metal and BPA contamination (buy good quality stuff, check reviews.)
@Tunblor: If you can eat wholefood to reach your protein intake daily, just eat wholefood.
For some we need to supplement our diet with I.e. protein powder.
Anyone tried this before? how does it taste?