Plant Protein

I recently went down a complete rabbit hole trying to choose a plant protein. What started as “which one should I buy?” turned into comparing ingredients, reading labels, watching reviews… and honestly, overthinking the hell out of it. So I made this tier list to simplify things. **What I based it on:** * Ingredient quality (sweeteners, additives, etc.) * Price vs value * Taste (because you actually have to drink it) **Tiers:** **S:** Cosmix, The Whole Truth, Origin, OWN **A:** YogaBar (only flavoured), Open Secret **B:** Naturaltein, Nutrabox, Sparkfusion, OZiva **C:** Nakpro (pea and brown rice), Fast&Up, MuscleBlaze **Quick breakdown:** * S tier → cleanest, but expensive (except OWN) * A tier → best balance (what most people should buy) * B tier → decent, but slight compromises * C tier → budget / not very clean One thing I realised: You’re not just buying protein, you’re buying branding and positioning. If anyone’s curious, I wrote a more detailed breakdown here: [Ranking Best Plant Protein Powders in India: Only List You Need](https://breathbadminton.com/best-plant-protein-powder-india-ranking/) Also happy to hear what you guys are using. I’m still experimenting myself.

All these 3 brands you mentioned are shit, consuming spoonfuls of sugar will be better. Go for cosmix or superyou if you want plant based options and trunativ, muscleblaze or OWN for whey. TWT is also good. For vitamins and minerals, get a blood test done and ask a doctor to prescribe them, protein powder is not the place where vitamins should be mixed. Also Herbalife? Jesus please get her full body checkup done immediately and get her to the gym to do some lifting. She's going to lose muscle mass and get osteoporosis very soon with such a lifestyle

Tagged it as women's fitness but anyone can use this idea. I am a vegetarian who does not consume eggs as well. I was looking for protein options and tried different brands of whey protein. All of them gave me stomach problems even in very small quantities. I am also lactose intolerant and have PMOS (PCOS). All whey proteins were flaring up my acne. Since I don't consume milk, I used to mix whey protein with water for shakes. It tasted so bad that I would not drink it. So I decided to try plant protein. I had read many reviews that the taste is worse than whey so I was very sceptical. Then I thought of a different approach. Instead of having a protein shake. I now switched to adding the required quantity of unflavoured plant protein to my regular food. This has been such a life savour because I finally don't have to eat/drink things that taste like thermocol/chalk in the name of protein. For eg: in the morning I add unflavoured protein powder scoop to my dosa/idly/chila batter, add more water to adjust the consistency and then eat it like how I would regularly. You can hardly feel a difference in the taste especially when compared to having other high protein items exclusively For lunch and dinner, it gets added to the roti batter and then I have like regular. Ofc if you don't eat anything except salads and boiled chicken/vegetables, you will not be able to do this. However, I like making my regular food protein rich rather than switching my whole diet. This can be incorporated for elderly parents also who are veg and don't want to make drastic changes in their diets. When I was telling this to my office colleagues, they seemed to be pleasantly surprised by this idea. So I thought it might help people here who have the same issues as me. The plant protein brand I use is Cosmix. Though I have seen, many bad reviews here, I found it the lightest on my stomach. You can use whichever unflavoured plant protein that suits you.

I'd suggest you try both. Whey (most common and affordable is concentrate) if you're not lactose intolerant, and a blend of isolate + concentrate if you still want lower lactose content. Full isolate if you can afford it lol. Plant - I've tried pea, rice as well as yeast - liked the taste of flavoured yeast better, so this is completely personal preference. I personally stick to whey concentrate or sometimes yeast as I don't think I'm lactose intolerant. This shouldn't matter much but sharing still. Brands like Nutrabay, MB, Avvatar and TWT have worked for me. Don't overthink it, just aim for 25g protein per scoop. Don't fall for brands like Oziva that market their protein as specialised for women - ideally your protein powder shouldn't contain so much of the other ingredients even if they're "good for women". I'm also insulin resistant but I've not used that as a filter when I get protein powder. Any good bioavailable protein should be helpful either way.

For the life of me, can't deal with regular whey. There's this clear whey protein, that becomes like juice. Muscle Blaze has flavours, I've tried Icy Orange and man idk it's not available anymore but it really feels like drinking orange soft drink! And another one I've discovered is It's Moong Aam Panna plant protein, the khatta meetha taste for a protein is a game changer